MOMENTUM 2021: The Canadian National Men's Issues Conference

MOMENTUM provides a platform to address a range of critical issues affecting boys and men in Canada and around the world.
This exciting event is being offered at an incredibly reduced price of only $20.21! Don’t miss this unique and affordable opportunity to hear from our group of international experts.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED AT THE CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE: https://www.equalitycanada.com/momentum2021.

UPDATE: NEW SPECIAL SESSIONS ANNOUNCED

1. Hear from a panel of male victims of false allegations and learn how their lives were affected
2. Participate in a live recording of an episode of the new CAFE podcast, Perspectives on Men, with host Warren Senkowski

PLUS: Meet our all-star speakers:

Naz Ghodrati, MBACP AIP, is Domestic Abuse Training and Coordination manager in a Greater Manchester (UK) Local Authority, where she has worked to incorporate first of their kind services for men in the UK.

Paul Nathanson, PhD, is co-author of Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture (2001); Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men (2006); Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man (2011); and Replacing Misandry: A Revolution History of Men (2015).

Robert Whitley is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, and a Research Scientist at the Douglas Research Centre. Whitley is the author of a forthcoming book Men’s Issues and Men’s Mental Health, published by Springer.

Courtney Gini is Police Constable, Community Partnerships & Engagement Unit, Toronto Police Service, and Co-Chair of Furthering Our Community by Uniting Services (FOCUS), an innovative, collaborative risk driven approach to Community Safety and Wellbeing.

Alexandra Lysova, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She has studied male victims of domestic violence for over 15 years in Russia and currently in Canada. Currently, she creates a dataset of intimate partner homicide cases involving male deaths.

John Robson is Executive Director of the Climate Discussion Nexus, documentary filmmaker, National Post, Epoch Times and Loonie Politics columnist and contributing editor to the Dorchester Review.

George W. Piskor MASc, SM, LLM, is Past President of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council; he currently serves on the Advisory Council of the National Parents Organization (NPO) and on the Board of the International Council of Shared Parenting (ICSP). His current research interests are shared parenting legislation and child support guidelines.

James Shelley is Director of the Men’s Resource Center at Lakeland Community College, one of the first dedicated programs in higher education to support male students. He is the author of several articles, including “Ten Reasons Why Men Aren’t Going to College”, published in New Male Studies: An International Journal (2017).

William Collins is Author, The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect

Dr. James Garbarino, Professor of Psychology, Loyola University, is Author of “Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them”. His research interest include violence-related issues - war, child maltreatment, childhood aggression, and juvenile delinquency. In 1991 he undertook missions for UNICEF to assess the impact of the Gulf War upon children in Kuwait and Iraq. He authored See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It.