2019 SMF Research Symposium

St. Jerome's University - Academic Centre

Saturday, Apr 6, 2019 at 8:30 AM EDT 

{ "name":"2019 SMF Research Symposium", "description": "https://ticketfi.com/event/3110/2019-smf-research-symposium\n\n\"The SMF Research Symposium is an annual conference hosted by the Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF) at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario. The symposium is a one-day conference that highlights student and faculty research dealing generally with relationships, families, and human sexuality.\\n\\nThe Research Symposium was first launched by SMF faculty and students in 2009 to bring together an academic community of shared interests in scholarship and research. It is our hope that it will continue to serve as a forum for growth and development within the fields of sexuality, relationships, and families, as well as provide a space for future innovations and professional exploration. The SMF department encourages an overarching vision of social justice and anti-oppression through research and scholarship, and emphasizes the importance of that vision through the Research Symposium.\\n\\nEach year, the SMF Symposium offers an opportunity for students, faculty, and community members to present their research and engage in critical discussions about important issues in the relationships and sexuality fields. These critical discussions often take on a practical or applied focus – how research translates into practice in the human services fields. The Symposium team remains committed to creating a venue where we can explore and discuss theory and research in critical and accessible ways!\\n\\nWe hope that you will join us and add your voice to these important discussions.\\n\\n\\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER\\n\\nWhy We Need More Research at the Nexus of Sexualities, Relationships, and Families \\nPresented by Karen Blair, PhD\\n\\nDo you ever notice how the relationships conferences fail to give adequate attention to sexual diversity or even sexual activity? Or how the sexuality conferences seem to abscond with the notion of non-sexual relationship dynamics? Despite our tendencies to sometimes study and discuss these topics in isolation, in reality they share dynamic connections that are constantly in flux and rarely simple. In this talk, Blair explores some of the ways that her research has explored how sexualities, relationships, and families interconnect with each other (for better, or for worse) to produce the reality of our day-to-day\\nexperiences in any one of these domains.\\n \\nAbout the Speaker\\nKaren L. Blair, PhD., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the director of the KLB Research Lab. Dr. Blair studies the role that social support for relationships plays in the development,\\nmaintenance and dissolution of relationships, LGBTQ Psychology, and the connections between relationships, social prejudices and health.\\n \\n\\n\\nCRITICAL CLOSE-UP\\n\\nFemme Theory: Using Marginalized femininities to understand gender and power\\nDr. Rhea Ashley Hoskin\\n\\nThe full abstract for this presenation is available on the 2019 SMF Research Symposium page of the St. Jerome's University website. \\n\\n\\nSESSION 1: Morning\\n\\nLusting Against type: Sexual Agency vs Gender Stereotypes in Comics\\nJ. Andrew Deman\\n \\n“u looking”” Hookup app use, sex, and intimacy among men seeking men\\nHarrison Oakes\\n \\nTransgressing the (trans)Norm:\\nAnalyzing Trans Identities in Medicine and the dominant sex\\/gender system\\nSophia Kudriavstev\\n \\nWhat are the barriers to safe sex communication? Comparing the Role of Emotional Avoidance,\\nCommunication skills Deficits, and STI Knowledge\\nUzma S. Rehman\\n\\nSESSION 2:  Afternoon\\n\\nRelationship and Sexual Satisfacation: A Developmental Perspective on Bidirectionality and the longitudinal effects of personality\\nChristopher Quinn-Nilas\\n \\nHow Disclosure and Non-Disclosure of Problem Gambling in Interpersonal Relationships Impacts Problem Gambling Intervention Outcomes\\nAnna Dawczyk\\n \\nEmotional Avoidance as a Mediator Between Childhood Maltreatment and Relationship Quality in Adulthood\\nJulia McNeil\\n \\nGrindr and emotional affordances and discontents: an investigation into gay male social networking applications and emotional (Dis)Connection\\nAdam Davies\\n\\nThe full abstracts for these topics are available on the 2019 SMF Research Symposium page of the St. Jerome's University website. \\n \\n\\n \\n \\n\"", "startDate":"2019-04-06", "endDate":"2019-04-06", "startTime":"08:30", "endTime":"09:30", "location":"St. Jerome's University Academic Centre - 290 Westmount Rd N Waterloo ON N2L 3G5 Canada", "label":"Add to Calendar", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"US/Eastern", "trigger":"click", "inline":true, "listStyle":"modal", "iCalFileName":"invite.ics" }