Queen's Global Summer Inauguration

The Queen's Global Summer encourages Queen's students, staff, and faculty, as well as local Kingston community members to attend these exciting on-campus events! Our events will bring the Queen's campus to life and offer a robust variety of events, ranging from film festivals, art exhibitions, conferences and lecture events. There's something for everyone at Queen's Global Summer!

Queen's Global Summer

Keynote Address: Dignifying Girls: Making Sexual and Social Worlds Worthy of Young Women by: Dr. Laina Ya-Hui Bay-Cheng

The Malting Tower, The Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning

You are cordially invited to the inauguration of the Queen’s Global Summer on 4 July 2022. The Queen’s Global Summer is a panoply of academic courses, events, and activities woven around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on issues of global significance and global challenges. The dominant theme for the inaugural event on July 4th is gender equality. Following introductory remarks by Dr. Amitava Chowdhury, Project Leader of the Queen’s Global Summer, and Dr. Barbara Crow, Dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, Dr. Laina Bay-Cheng of York University will deliver a keynote lecture entitled, “Dignifying Girls: Making Sexual and Social Worlds Worthy of Young Women.” The lecture will be followed by a musical performance by Tsiokeriio (Diio) Hagen and group.Keynote Address #1: Sustainable Freedom Lecture Series, <a href="https://www.queensu.ca/artsci/programs-and-degrees/queens-global-summer" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Queen's Global Summer</a>Title: Dignifying Girls: Making Sexual and Social Worlds Worthy of Young WomenSpeaker: Dr. Laina Ya-Hui Bay-Cheng, York University Description: If popular entertainment, social policies, and academic debates are any indication, the sexual lives of girls and young women appear to have captured our collective imagination. Our preoccupation often takes the form of worry: worry about what girls are doing and, with good reason, worry about what is being done to them. Yet even as we dissect young women’s sexual choices and intimate lives, scanning for risk factors and risk behaviors, we skate over the fundamental threats posed by misogyny and its offshoots of cis- and heterosexism, racism, ableist age-based oppression, and economic precarity. Together, these interlocked injustices entrap young women in circumstances that are inherently degrading and endangering. Informed by feminist sexuality research and Nussbaum’s Capability Approach, I advocate breaking from our myopic fixation with young women’s sexual lives in order to see more fully: the social conditions in which they are embedded; how social conditions multiply and complicate the meanings of sexuality for young women; and adults’ opportunities – and obligations – to create social conditions that uphold young women’s sexual rights and dignity. July 4th Inauguration Schedule6:00-6:30pm Opening Remarks from Dr. Amitava Chowdhury, Dr. Barbara Crow, Dr. Sandra den Otter at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, Malting Tower Room6:30-7:45pm Inaugural Keynote: Dr. Laina Bay-Cheng7:45-8:00pm Brief Intermission8:00-9:00pm Musical Performance: Tsiikerio Hagen

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