ROUNDTABLE: Sexual Harassment in Sport & Recreation

Sexual Harassment in Sport & Recreation: Strategies for Change

A Roundtable Discussion

Friday 8th April 2005
10a.m. – 2p.m.
William Doo Auditorium, New College Residence,
45 Willcocks Street, University of Toronto

RSVP to marilou.thompson@utoronto.ca

Co-Hosted by the Status of Women's Office, Sexual Harassment Office and the Centre for Girls' and Women's Health and Physical Activity, University of Toronto.

This event brings together researchers and practitioners from a number of disciplines to review what we know and to discuss strategies – in research, in policy development and in practical politics – for changing the cultures that give rise to sexual harassment. We will discuss what we have learned about the value and the limits of law and policy; we will look at international research comparing the experience of sexual harassment among women in different cultural contexts and different jurisdictions; we will look at how workplace strategies can be adapted to the environment of sport and recreation; and we will talk about the links between work on sexual harassment, on racism and on homophobia in sport and recreation.

The first session in the morning will include Professor Kari Fasting, from the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, who will talk about her research about the characteristics of environments which foster sexual harassment; and Professor Sandy Welsh, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, who will talk about her recent work on the relation between race and sexual harassment.

The second session, a panel discussion about strategies for change, will be moderated by Connie Guberman, the University of Toronto’s Status of Women Officer; and it will include Professor Gretchen Kerr, of the Faculty of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto; Professor Margery Holman, of the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the University of Windsor; and Paddy Stamp, the Sexual Harassment Officer at the University of Toronto.

Attendance is limited to 40 and is on a first come, first served basis.

Please RSVP to marilou.thompson@utoronto.ca by April 1, 2005