Liberty and Justice
Resistance on the Other Side of Freedom: The Politics of Refugee Cultural Production
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Zeynep Aydogdu
This paper will focus on Ilhan Omar’s memoir, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2021) as an autobiographical manifesto that serves Omar’s emancipatory politics. Since her election to congress as a Black Muslim woman and the first African refugee, Omar has faced various forms of Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, and anti-immigrant strains. In her memoir, Omar purposefully locates herself as the speaking subject of her life, in a purposeful, bold, contentious manifesto that reclaims her subjectivity, identity, and body and positions herself as an agent of feminist resistance and cross-racial solidarity.
Responses to Medical Malpractice in Canada: From Adversarial Litigation to Restorative Justice?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Blake Brown, Jennifer Llewellyn
Medical errors injure or kill thousands of patients in Canada each year. This paper considers how the Canadian justice system traditionally dealt with these harms, then explores recent developments and possibilities for a restorative approach to respond to health care harms and patient concerns. In the early twentieth century, physicians formed a mutual defense organization, the Canadian Medical Protective Association. The Association traditionally responded to allegations of malpractice by ferociously fighting against patients inside and outside the courtroom. Outside the courtroom, physicians treated patients as adversaries and sought to smear their reputations. Inside the courtroom, the Canadian Medical Protective Association hired elite lawyers to defend doctors and selected test cases to establish doctor-friendly case law. These tactics led to complaints that the justice system failed to address the concerns of many patients and their families about poor treatment. A related concern is that these legal responses undermine efforts to reveal and address related systemic and system failures. In response to these significant concerns with adversarial justice processes, efforts are now underway to consider the potential for a restorative justice response to cases of health care harm. These efforts have confronted challenges related to the historical developments that have shaped malpractice, including the role of the Canadian Medical Protective Association.
Women in the Soviet Posters During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nani Manvelishvili
Soviet propaganda tried to shape common public opinion through Soviet Posters. The activation of propaganda gained special importance to increase the fighting ability of the military and people behind the front During the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945). The paper seeks to provide in-depth discussion around women’s changing role during the Great Patriotic war in USSR based on the analysis of posters from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia. This paper reveals that three main causes that initiated women’s changing roles in the Soviet Union: in order to increase women’s participation in war, to use women as a resource for war and to increase the fighting ability. Soviet state created new female role models. We analyzed the Soviet posters published during wartime. The study identifies 4 different female images: women warriors, mothers, women victims, and working women. The research analyzes these female characters. The study is concerned with the effects of the Great Patriotic War by focusing on Soviet Georgia. The posters published in the Soviet Republic of Georgia during wartime became the primary source for the research. The research uses a case study approach to determine soviet women’s changeable role during wartime in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia. The major finding of the paper is that Soviet propaganda tried to bring together women’s emancipation to their changing images during the war. By analyzing posters from the Soviet Journals, the paper provides to understand Soviet women’s changing status and role in the Great Patriotic War.
