Amélie Crasci and Neslihan Sriram-Uzundal presented in the CSLP's Project Room
Speakers Amélie Crasci and Neslihan Sriram addressed the challenges women can face in the field of education, from intimate partner violence (IPV) to gender pay gaps and epistemic injustice.
The workshop leaders have graciously agreed to share their PowerPoint slides.
As a 2016 psychology major from Concordia University, along with nearly seven years of teaching experience with adults and immigrants as a community vocational teacher at the English Montreal School Board, Amélie Crasci has long been interested in the study of people and in helping others. However, it wasn’t until she personally experienced intimate-partner violence (IPV) and decided to pursue a master's degree in educational studies, that she felt compelled to be a voice for a group of whom is still oppressed to this day and whom she identifies with — that being, women.
As a double major at the University of Tuebingen, Neslihan Sriram-Uzundal’s interest diverted into two lanes during her Master of Arts and Master of Education. The former explored a new avenue of understanding the role of women play in medieval literature and how these representations of the abject can be read as integrity instead. These issues of representation reached into her contemporary endeavors when building connections between education, migration and how race, class and gender form epistemic injustice.
The EmpowerGrad workshops are organized by graduate students for graduate students. The series will resume on January 29 with Demystifying the Field of Education in Quebec.
