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Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF) </span></b></p>
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you to join us on</span></b></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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EN-US">Friday,
April 1<sup>st</sup> for the 6<sup>th</sup> Annual SMF </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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Symposium</span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font size="3">Since 2009, the SMF Department at St. Jerome’s University has hosted a one-day research
conference that highlights student and faculty research dealing generally with issues of social justice, personal/professional ethics, and responsible citizenship. SMF faculty first launched a half-day Symposium in an effort to bring together an academic community
of shared interests in scholarship and research about sexualities, relationships, and families. The small, grass-roots symposium has grown into a formal professional conference with leading Keynote speakers, scholarly presentations, and panel discussions.
It is now offered annually, with contributors from universities and colleges across southwestern Ontario, as well as community practitioners. This research conference is an ideal venue for students (undergraduate and graduate) to share and discuss their work
in a professional conference setting.</font></span></p>
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<a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font size="3">Past conference themes have explored ethical intersections among theory, research, and practice;
families and relationships in a globalized world; and navigating intersecting identities, to name a few. With this year’s theme
</font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="3">– Cultural Pluralities: Situating the Studies of Sexualities, Relationships, and Families
</font></b><font size="3">– we seek to further enrich past dialogues by exploring how individual and community cultural pluralities impact and influence individuals’ sexualities, relationships, and experiences of family. This year’s theme considers culture
quite broadly, and invites an exploration of intersecting cultural identities (or pluralities) in family, relationship, and sexuality research and the discourses this research produces.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2016 Keynote</span></u></b></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
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"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dr.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Susan Dion<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Not
So Perfect Strangers:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></i></b></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
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a Shared History in Service of Reconciliation”</span></b></em></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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</font></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font size="3">We welcome
</font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="3">Dr. Susan Dion</font></b><font size="3">,
</font></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">a First Nations (Lenape-Potawatomi) researcher and educator at York University, as our Keynote speaker this year.
The focus of her teaching and research is on the representation of Aboriginal people in various contexts, in particular, the relationship between First Nations and non-First Nations people in Ontario’s publicly funded schools. A researcher and activist, Dr.
Dion’s work calls attention to the teaching of Aboriginal content in Ontario schools and the importance of understanding our Canadian history.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">Her research interests include the social and political contexts of education; disrupting memories of post-invasion First Nations-Canadian
Relations; resistance strategies of Aboriginal adolescent girls; and urban Aboriginal experiences. She is the author of two leading reports on Aboriginal Education in Ontario’s public schools,
</font></span><a href="http://ycec.edu.yorku.ca/files/2012/11/Decolonizing-Our-Schools.pdf"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><font color="#0563c1" size="3">Decolonizing Our Schools</font></span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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(for the Toronto District School Board’s Aboriginal Education Centre) and </font>
</span><a href="http://www.metisnation.org/media/328915/our_place-report-usb.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><font color="#0563c1" size="3">Our Place in the Circle</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">,
that examine Metis and Aboriginal content in Ontario Faculties of Education. </font>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1"><font size="3">Keynote Abstract:</font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">What is remembered and what is forgotten in the study of Indigenous people and the study of Canada? Do dominant
stories of Canadian history encourage Canadians to distance themselves from and abdicate their responsibility for the inequities that exist in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada? In this talk, Dr. Dion explores the tensions
that emerge in the intersection of speaking and hearing across difference and illuminates the challenges of crossing cultural boundaries in service of reconciliation.</font></span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">SMF Research Symposium – April 1, 2016 – St. Jerome’s
University</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">Registration: 8:00 am</font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><font size="3">Keynote - Dr. Susan Dion, 9:00 am</font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1"><font face="Arial">Toni</font></span></p>
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<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><strong><font size="2">____________________________________</font></strong></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><strong><font size="2">Toni Serafini, Ph.D.</font></strong></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">Associate Professor and Department Chair (sabbatical)</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF)</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">290 Westmount Road, North</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G3</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2">519-884-8110 x28293</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><a tabindex="0" href="mailto:tserafini@uwaterloo.ca" target=""><font size="2">tserafini@uwaterloo.ca</font></a></div>
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<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma">Adjunct, School of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS), University of Waterloo</div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma">Special Graduate Faculty, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition (FRAN), University of Guelph</div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><strong><em><font size="2">"No one is born fully formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are."</font></em></strong></div>
<div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><strong><em><font size="2">~Paolo Freire</font></em></strong></div>
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