Speakers

Wanda Swan, Founder & CEO of Start By Talking LLC

Wanda Swan is a nationally recognized thought leader in survivor advocacy, anti-oppression work, restorative justice, and violence prevention. A speaker, scholar-practitioner, anti-oppression coach, and Research Fellow for the University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovations Research Center, she has been deeply embedded within the anti-violence movement for over 15 years.

Jennifer Hirsch & Shamus Khan

Jennifer S. Hirsch, a medical anthropologist and Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, works at the intersection of public health and social science, with a research agenda that examines gender, sexuality and migration, the anthropology of love, social dimensions of HIV, and undergraduate well being, including sexual assault. Hirsch co-directed the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT), a research project on sexual assault and sexual health among Columbia undergraduates.

Shamus Khan is a professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University. He writes on culture, inequality, gender, and elites. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton), The Practice of Research (Oxford, with Dana Fisher), Approaches to Ethnography: Modes of Representation and Analysis in Participant Observation (Oxford, with Colin Jerolmack), and Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (W.W. Norton, with Jennifer Hirsch).


Conference Details

Breakfast

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

The morning will begin with a breakfast bar and coffee.


Keynote & Panel Discussion

Centering Survivorship and Building Communities
10 a.m. – Pugh Auditorium

The day begins with a talk by Wanda Swan centered around anti-oppressive advocacy for campus communities.

Panel Discussion with Jennifer Hirsch, Shamus Khan, and Betsy Barre
11 a.m. – Pugh Auditorium

Sexual Citizens was published in 2020 and is a nationally-renowned book that transforms how we understand and address sexual assault. Through intimate portraits of life and sex among today’s college students, Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new way to understand sexual assault. Their insights transcend current debates about consent, predators in a “hunting ground,” or the dangers of hooking up. Sexual Citizens reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault a predictable element of life on a college campus. The powerful concepts of sexual projects, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies provide a new language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. The result transforms our understanding of sexual assault and provides a new roadmap for how to address it.


Lunch

12 – 1 p.m. – Benson 401B

Workshop Sessions

1 – 4 p.m. – Benson University Center 401

Four different workshop sessions will be offered during this time in Benson University Center Room 401, Sections A-D. The workshop topics are TBD, so please indicate your interest in attending these sessions, and you will receive an email with further information as soon as they are confirmed.


What’s in the Punch?
Centering harm reduction in student organizations

1 p.m. – Benson 401A

Tim Wilkinson and Betsy Adams
Presented by leaders in Student Engagement, this session is designed to dig into the social environment at WFU and help student leaders understand organizational responsibilities for interpersonal violence prevention and response. The workshop will also use a risk and protective factor analysis to evaluate our social environments.

Detox: a mindful look at masculinity

1 p.m. – Benson 401D

Peter Rives
This workshop is designed to help participants think about the ways in which masculinity is taught and will introduce the concept of mindful masculinity and the options available to male-identified individuals with regard to the embodiment of masculinity.

Pleasure: the politics of feeling good

1 p.m. – Benson 401C

Deb Marke & Hannah Rehm
The goal of this workshop is to help participants understand their bodies and how to listen to them. Workshop leaders will normalize feeling grounded, listening, naming and understanding feelings. They will also destigmatize and demystify sex and pleasure.


Anti-oppressive advocacy for campus communities

2 p.m. – Benson 401C

Wanda Swan
This workshop aims to increase understanding of how overarching systems and field-specific training developed problematic approaches to the higher education field; increase understanding of how the role and history of anti-Blackness served as a backdrop for inequitable care for Black students and survivors of violence and develop organizational strategies to identify and shift from non-racist to anti-racist perspectives.

Title IX for student-athletes

2 p.m. – Pugh Auditorium

Jessica Telligman
This workshop is for current WFU student-athletes and will serve as their yearly Title IX training session, highlighting resources and reporting options at the University.

Building Blocks for Healthy Relationships

2 p.m. – Benson 409

Katie Whitley
The goal of this workshop is to identify relationship red and green flags, identify different forms of boundaries, identify different forms of communication, teach boundary-setting/communication skills

Dating Culture v. Hookup Culture:
a student-led conversation

2 p.m. – Benson 401A

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
This workshop is a student-facilitated conversation about student observations of interpersonal relationships.


Employees: Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace

3 p.m. – Benson 401A

Kim Caprio
This workshop is for WFU employees. The goal is to promote participant confidence in responding to disclosures from students and employees by providing education on trauma-informed responses, including what to say and what not to say.

Consent is Sexy: a student-led interactive workshop

3 p.m. – Benson 401C

SHAG: Sexual Health Advisory Group
This workshop is student-led and will focus on all things consent.

Student Employees: responding to disclosures of sexual assault

3 p.m. – Pugh Auditorium

Jessica Telligman
This workshop is for WFU student employees. The goal is to prepare students for how to respond to disclosures from other students about allegations of sexual misconduct when those disclosures happen in their work role.

ConsentCon 2023 Program

ConsentCon is a conference dedicated to exploring the meaning and operationalization of consent on college campuses.