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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191026T093000
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URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/sep-5-2019-save-date-ha
 ppy-ever-after-how-marriage-impacts-our-health-and-happiness/
SUMMARY:Happy Ever After? How marriage impacts our health and happiness
DESCRIPTION:Join four UBC researchers from the Faculty of Arts for an eveni
 ng of conversation about the marital revolution. Have all the choices arou
 nd marriage today\, and the types of marriages we want\, made us happier a
 nd healthier?\n\nFeaturing:\n\nMarina Adshade\, Faculty Member\, Vancouver
  School of Economics\n\nTalk Summary: Don’t believe anyone who tells yo
 u that there is a straightforward to answer the question: Who is happier a
 nd healthier\, married or single people? Economist Dr. Marina Adshade will
  start this conversation with a look at the evidence that supports or disc
 redits the claim that marriage is the path to a happy and healthy life.\n\
 nBio: Dr. Marina Adshade is an experienced writer\, commentator\, and key
 note speaker. Her book\, Dollars and Sex: How economics influences sex an
 d love\, has been published in ten different languages and is available i
 n bookstores around the globe. Her latest published work\, a chapter in R
 obot Sex: The ethical and social implications\, was debated in the intern
 ational media and has been adapted for publication in Slate Magazine.\n\n
 Mandy Len Catron\, Adjunct Professor\, Creative Writing Program\n\nTalk Su
 mmary: Many people think that marriage is a social good—that our lives 
 and our communities are better when people get and stay married. But we do
 n’t often talk about the social costs of the institution. This talk cons
 iders what is lost when we make marriage the most central relationship in 
 our culture.\n\nBio: Mandy Len Catron is the author of How to Fall in Lo
 ve with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays. The book was listed for the 2018 RCB T
 aylor Prize and the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. Mandy’s article “To Fa
 ll in Love with Anyone\, Do This” was one of the most popular articles p
 ublished by the New York Times in 2015. Her writing can be found in The N
 ew York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, The Rumpus\, and The Wal
 rus as well as other newspapers\, literary journals\, and anthologies.\n\
 nCarrie Ichikawa Jenkins\, Professor\, Philosophy\n\nTalk Summary: Growin
 g awareness around ethical non-monogamy\, together with a better understan
 ding of how relationships are impacted by (lack of) social recognition\, r
 aises a fraught question: is marriage an unfair privilege for monogamous c
 ouples only? Carrie Jenkins draws on feminist philosophy and inter-discipl
 inary empirical research to find some answers.\n\nBio: Carrie Jenkins is 
 the author of What Love Is and What It Could Be (Basic Books\, 2017) and
  recently won the New Philosopher Writers’ Award for her short story “
 The Woman At Home.” Her forthcoming books include a co-authored collecti
 on of philosophical poetry with McGill-Queen’s University Press\, and a 
 novel with Penguin Random House Canada.\n\nYue Qian\, Assistant Professor
 \, Sociology\n\nTalk Summary: Young people increasingly delay or even for
 go marriage. Does this mean marriage has lost its significance in our cult
 ure? Dr. Yue Qian will talk about the changing landscape of marriage and d
 iscuss how our lives are affected by the changing rules of intimacy.\n\nBi
 o: Dr. Yue Qian’s research focuses on marriage\, family\, and gender in
  North American and East Asian contexts. As a gender scholar\, Dr. Qian i
 s passionate about translating gender research into the empowerment of wom
 en and advocacy for gender equality around the world. ​\n\nPresented by
  the UBC Women’s Health Research Cluster and the Faculty of Arts.\n\n&nb
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