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SFU Open House 2012
May 2611:00 am - 4:00 pmSFU Burnaby Campus |
Cool Gender, Smart Sex
In this hypermedia age, smart sex for young people means more than birth control, avoiding bad dates, or leveraging your looks to get ahead on Youtube. Becoming smart about sex means learning how biology alone does not determine how we “act” as male or female. Join SFU’s Department of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies to make sense out of the many challenges to social conventions, moral panics and the gendered patterns of political and economic inequality over time.
The study of gender and sexuality is one of the fastest growing, cutting edge and most interdisciplinary fields in university in North America. It focuses on how gender shapes not only our media worlds, but our work, leisure and private lives of consumption, action and creation. How do sexual norms, racism, class, ableism, and ageism interact to shape people's lives today? Studying Gender and Sexuality is especially cool in Canada, an acknowledged leader in international global regimes in sex and human rights. Find out how to be smart about sex, and which gender-setting research tools are cool in business, law, health, labour, education and social policy fields today. Our graduates become confident in their skins, ready for any challenge. |
Click here for the SFU Open House 2012 home page for more information! |
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Get Involved: Engaging Women, Transforming Cities
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Women Transforming Cities Launch
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Register at:womentransformingcities.eventbrite.ca
Speakers Include:
EVENT IS FREE
Special Guests include: Andrea Reimer, Vancouver City Councillor,
Website: Engaging Women, Transforming Cities |
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Recent events
Traveling Speakers Series 2011-2012
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Associate member Dr. Brian Burtch is off to Whitehorse, Yukon territory this Sunday for speaking engagements on Monday and Tuesday. The talks include two schools, a women's studies class at Yukon College, a CBC radio interview, and a public lecture, actually a conversation, about homophobia and transphobia in high schools on Monday evening. He is looking forward to being back in Whitehorse after his first-ever visit there in 2003. He's grateful to all the people in Whitehorse who organized the event, and to GSWS' travelling speakers bureau for funding travel and related costs. |
Mary Shearman, PhD Candidate
Burlesque and Erotic Dance history in Canada/Sex Work in Canada/Feminist Theatre for Young Audiences
Northwest Community College and Terrace Women's Resource Centre Society
Terrace, BC
March 8, 2012
RWW Spring Lecture Series on Gender and the City (2012-2013)
You are invited to join us for three evening Salons next week to discuss new research and priorities for action on Gender and the City in Vancouver and others across Canada. This series is brought to you by the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowment as a contribution to the Women Transforming Cities Initiative, in the year of preparations for the visit by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, here in Vancouver in May 2013. The series explores cities as political spaces, safe spaces, and queer-friendly spaces.
Join us: Tuesday March 13; Wednesday March 15 and Friday March 16 from 7-9 at SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings. To register: sfu.ca/reserve
I. Cities as Political Space
Title: Un/Mapping Cities as Sites of Political Organizing: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Guest Speaker: Benita Bunjun, Ph.D.
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Location: Harbour Centre 2270
To register: sfu.ca/reserve
Synopsis:
Dr. Bunjun has been invited to reflect on the current state of gender and urban studies in Canada, the theme of the 2012-2013 Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Research Program. She will present her current research, and initiate a dialogue on how to advance policy research on gender and the city in Vancouver and BC. How can scholars, policy makers, social activists, and service providers act on the political space of the city to promote equality and self-determination for a diversity of women? How do we expand our framework of knowledge to be able to re-envision our participation within the "making" of cities in relation to Indigenous Peoples historical presence as well as dislocation within a white settler-society?
Profile:
A specialist in the intersectionality within feminist organizing and social change movements, Benita Bunjun has a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from UBC in 2011. Her dissertation is entitled "The (Un)making of Home, Entitlement and Nation: An Intersectional Organizational Study of Power Relations in Vancouver Status of Women, 1971-2008". Her research examines power relations within feminist organizations while challenging hegemonic feminism. Dr. Bunjun teaches extensively in Women and Gender Studies, and has served as a member of the Board and President of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, which examined the impact of the Canadian social transfer on indigenous, immigrant and disabled women in the cities of Vancouver (DTES), Winnipeg and Calgary. She has also worked extensively with feminist organizations and networks throughout BC.
2. Cities as Safe Space
Title: "In the meantime, police urge women to take precautions"
Gendered (in)security and the neo-liberal city
Guest Speaker: Darcie Bennett, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Time: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Location: Harbour Centre 1430
To register: sfu.ca/reserve
Synopsis:
Dr. Bennett has been invited to reflect on the current state of gender and urban studies in Canada, the theme of the 2012-2013 Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Research Program. She will present her current research, and initiate a dialogue on how to advance policy research on gender and the city in Vancouver and BC. How can scholars, policy makers and social activists and social service providers act on the political space of the city to promote the equality and diversity of women?
Profile:
Darcie Bennett works at the interface of the academy and activist community in the Lower Mainland Area. With a PhD in Sociology from UBC in 2008, she has since worked at Pivot Legal Society, most recently as Campaigns Director deeply engaged in child welfare/ending violence against women. She is active on the Law and Policy Committee at LEAF and the City of Vancouver's Child and Youth Justice Committee. Dr. Bennett has co-authored a range of reports on Work in the Child Welfare System, the impact of private security on the homeless and underhoused, and a review of the BC Liberals Core Services Review from the Single Mother's standpoint. Her dissertation is entitled Securing the Neo-Liberal City: Risk Markets, Gentrification and Low Wage Work in Vancouver. She has a passion for facilitating deeper collaborations among researchers, community activists, lawyers, artists and politicians who share common goals and values.
3. Cities as Queer Friendly Space
Title:Stories of the city: Understanding place and social inclusion through queer oral histories
Guest Speaker: Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, Ph.D.
Date: Friday March 16, 2012
Time: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Location: Harbour Centre 2270
To register: sfu.ca/reserve
Synopsis:
Dr. Muller Myrdahl has been invited to reflect on the current state of gender and urban studies in Canada, the theme of the 2012-2013 Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Research Program. In this presentation of her ongoing research, she will bring oral history narratives and municipal social policy initiatives into conversation to discuss what it means to promote equality and inclusion in the Canadian city. Through this presentation, Dr. Muller Myrdahl will initiate a dialogue about how scholars, policy makers, social activists and social service providers can create and act on the political spaces of the city to promote the equality and diversity of women.
Profile:
Dr. Muller Myrdahl is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and an associate member of the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge. With a PhD in Geography and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2008, her research seeks to advance understanding of social inclusion and social justice in the city. Her research focuses on the ways in which dominant social norms and unequal social relations take shape and are challenged in social spaces and the built environment.Her ongoing research is entitled "The lives of (sexual) others: social difference and urban change in Lethbridge, Alberta." This project examines the changing social geographies of lgbtq people in and around the Lethbridge region. Dr. Muller Myrdahl's dissertation explored the intertwined cultural politics of entrepreneurial cities and women’s professional sport spaces. Entitled Contested Spaces of Women's Sport, the dissertation investigated how the Women's National Basketball Association attempted to attract visitors to city centres in the American Midwest and examined how lesbian fans navigated the normative “family friendly” logics that structure game spaces and the entrepreneurial city. She has published in the journals Gender, Place and Culture; Social & Cultural Geography; Journal of Lesbian Studies; Leisure/Loisir; and Leisure Studies. Her most recent work includes "Queerying creative cites" in Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative planning practice (Ashgate, 2011) and a forthcoming article entitled “Ordinary (small) cities and queer lives: Urban hierarchies in sexuality and space scholarship.”
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Traveling Speakers Series 2011-2012
Mary Shearman, PhD Candidate
Burlesque and Erotic Dance history in Canada/Sex Work in Canada/Feminist Theatre for Young Audiences
Northwest Community College and Terrace Women's Resource Centre Society
Terrace, BC
March 8, 2012
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RWW CHAIR LECTURE AND WORKSHOP SERIES
Spring 2012
March 8, 2012
“‘They Just Wanted to be Normal’:
Locating the Strange and the Familiar in the Shafia Honor Killing Trial”
A Public Talk by Dr. Dana Mohammed Olwan
Co-sponsored by the Centre for comparative Study of Muslim Societes and Cultures
and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
SFU, Burnaby, AQ 6229
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Shafia family murder trial opened on October 20, 2011. Three members of the four victims’ own family stand accused for the quadruple murders discovered on June 30, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario. Claimed as honour killings, the trial has generated heated debates about the cultural and religious motivations for such acts of gendered violence. In Canada, Media responses to these murders have focused on the familiar stories of Muslim violence, multicultural breaches, and failed integration. This talk examines some of the familiar and strange narratives used to script the Shafia murders and catapult their national and international notoriety.
Speaker Biography
Dana Mohammed Olwan is currently the Ruth Wynn Woodard Junior Chair in Women’s Studies for the year 2011-2012. In the Summer 2011, she was the Future Minority Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Women’s and Gender Studies Department of Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) where she began her book-length project on honour killings in Canada. Tentatively entitled, Bodies that Matter in Death: Honour Killings in Canadian Racial Logics, this study focuses on the highly publicized murders of twelve Muslim Canadian women and the national debates they have evoked about the status of women in Canada, violence against women in racialized communities, immigration, assimilation, and multiculturalism. She is former National Chair of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and member of Faculty for Palestine.
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Finding Balance? Policy Lessons from Quebec on Reconciling Work and Parenthood
February 20th, 2012 - 9:30am to 11:30am
Peter Kaye room, Vancouver Public Library – Central Branch
Speaker: Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Professor, University of Québec (Montreal) and Canada Research Chair on the Socio-organizational Challenges of the Knowledge Economy Diane-Gabrielle will speak to the challenges of reconciling work and parenthood and how government policies can support work-life balance. She will share applied research and lessons learned from Quebec’s parental leave program.
Cost: Free, but there is limited space. Please RSVP to sarah.georgetti@bcgeu.ca
Sponsored by: CCPA (BC Office), BCGEU, Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC), SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SFU's Morgan Centre for Labour Studies, and the BC Federation of Labour's Community and Social Action Committee
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Art, Activism and the Murdered and Missing Women
February 7, 2012
2:30 pm, AQ 6229
Free and open to all
The filmmakers are my name is scot and leannej will be show their film Calculating 63 discuss the film and the broader issues on the murdered and missing women of the downtown eastside. The third speaker will be Carol Martin from the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre and the February 14th Memorial March committee.
My Name Is Scot – Evergreen
Evergreen is a series of text-based, site specific interventions installed at various locations in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside between 2009 and 2011. The individual pieces are garlands or more accurately, festoons of sculpted and shaped, foliage letters that spell out the first names of 26 women. The garlands were placed throughout the neighbourhood to both perpetuate the memory of women who have gone missing and to promote a dialogue about violence and abuse which continues to happen, inside and outside of the area. Some of the garlands can still be seen in the neighbourhood. To see and read more about Evergreen please visit: evergreen26.blogspot.com
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Our next Herstory Cafe is a field trip!
Please join us. for the “Women of Roedde House Museum Tour” by 4 local historians
Sunday February 5th, 2012
11:00am to 12:30pm
1415 Barclay Street
$5 per person, all proceeds to the Roedde House Preservation Society
*Tour followed by a reception & light refreshments*
maximum 20 people
To arrange pre-paid TICKETS contact: (604) 684-7040 or info@roeddehouse.org or email Jolene@herstorycafe.ca
(order your tickets early as we expect this event to sell out)
Roedde House Museum in Vancouver's West End is a late-Victorian home in the Queen Anne revival style, built in 1893 for the family of Matilda & Gustav Roedde, the city's first bookbinder. It has been faithfully restored with period furnishing and family artefacts to reflect the day-to-day life of a middle class, immigrant family at the turn of the last century.
TOUR by: Lorraine Irving, (BC Genealogical Society & Mt View Cemetery tours) will speak on the tragic 1925 murder of young nurse Anna Catherine Roedde at Vancouver General Hospital. Lara Campbell, (Herstory Cafe & SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) will speak on Women & Domestic Service. Jolene Cumming, (Herstory Cafe & the Stanley Park History Group) will speak on leisure & recreational activities of the day.
More info: www.herstorycafe.ca and www.roeddehouse.org
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RWW CHAIR LECTURE AND WORKSHOP SERIES
Monday, February 20, 2012
Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty
"On Walls, Borders, and Occupations: Securitized Regimes, Anatomies of Violence, and Feminist Critique"
7:00 - 9:00 pm
SFU Vancouver campus
Room 1400
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Framed within the context of a recent feminist of color solidarity delegation to Palestine, this talk focuses on the colonized anatomies of violence mobilized by the ’democracies’ of the USA, Israel, and India. Arguing that these securitized regimes utilize particular and connected racial and gendered ideologies and practices at their social and territorial borders, the lecture suggests a vision of cross-border feminist solidarity that confronts neoliberal militarization globally. Speaker Biography
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She is a member of the advisory boards of Signs, A Journal Of Women in Culture and Society, Transformations, The Journal of Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship, Feminist Africa (South Africa), Asian Women (Korea), Feminist Economics, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Professor Mohanty is a steering committee member of the Municipal Services Project (municipalservicesproject.org), a transnational research and advocacy group focused on alternatives to privatization in the Global South, and Coordinating Team member of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project (fmsproject.cornell.edu). She has worked with three grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, Center for Immigrant Families in New York City, and Awareness, Orissa, India, and was a member of the “Indigenous and Women of Color Solidarity delegation to Palestine” in June 2011. Mohanty has been a consultant/evaluator for the Association of American Colleges & Universities, the Ford Foundation, and UN Women. She is series editor of “Comparative Feminist Studies” for Palgrave/Macmillan.
This event is part of RWW CHAIR LECTURE AND WORKSHOP SERIES
for Spring 2012: "Resisting Gendered and Colonial Violence Against Women" and is sponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Please register here: http://cgi.sfu.ca/~hccweb/cgi-bin/OnlineRegistration/site/event/detail.php?id=420
If you require further information about this lecture, please email Dr. Dana Mohammed Olwan, Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair, at dolwan@sfu.ca.
Friday, February 3, 2012
“Gendered Colonialisms: Religion, Violence, and the Canadian State”
A Roundtable and Discussion with Dr. Jasmin Zine, Dr. Denise Nadeau, Dr. Nadia Fadil and Dr. Dana Mohammed Olwan
SFU Burnaby Campus, Diamond Alumni Centre (8888 University Drive)
Time: 9.30 AM – 12 PM
Hosted by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
In Collaboration with “Women for Peace Against Fundamentalisms” (Peace for Life) and the Interfaith Institute at Simon Fraser University
In this interfaith roundtable discussion, our speakers, who work locally and internationally as Muslim and Christian faith-based activists, academics, and leaders, will draw links between local and global forms of racial, religious, and gendered violence and the practices and policies of the Canadian state. The talks will identify some of the theoretical and practical ways in which the state manages religious difference and enshrines practices of “racial management” and power. The talks will provide critical perspectives on the interdependent relationships of colonialism, racism, religious and gendered violence against women. This event will be followed by a moderated discussion between speakers and attendees. We invite academics, community organizers, religious and spiritual leaders to join us in making visible the links between gendered violence, war, and empire in our world today.
Speakers’ Biographies
Jasmin Zine is an Associate Professor in Sociology and the Muslim Studies Option at Wilfrid Laurier University. She teaches and has published widely in critical race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, education and social justice, Muslim cultural politics and race, gender and imperialism. Dr. Zine received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a study of Canadian Muslim youth and the politics of empire, citizenship and belonging post 9/11. Dr. Zine was an expert group member in a project spearheaded by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Council of Europe to develop educational guidelines for combating discrimination against Muslims.
Nadia Fadil is a postdoctoral fellow at the Sociology Department of the Catholic University of Leuven. Her research deals with the religious practice of second generation Maghrebi, as well as the funding and recognition of mosques. As a sociologist and anthropologist, her work focuses on Muslims in Belgium and Europe and questions of subjectivity, embodiment, multiculturalism and secularism viz Foucault’s notion of governmentality. Nadia is a well-known public intellectual who challenges Islamophobia, racism and sexism in public debate. She was born in Antwerpen, Belgium to a Moroccan-Muslim migrants to Belgium in the labour migration of the sixties. As a scholar/activist she has been involved in networks that have mobilized against the headscarf ban.
Denise Nadeau is a scholar-activist who works as a practical theologian, movement therapist, and popular educator. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Research Associate in the Department of Religion at Concordia University and Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Montreal. Director of the Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements at Simon Fraser University from 2006 to 2010, she has worked in both ecumenical and interfaith contexts for many years, with a focus on Indigenous-settler relationships and educating against Islamophobia. Her publications include numerous articles on decolonization and deconstructing whiteness, gendered violence and colonialism in Christian practice.
Dana Mohammed Olwan is currently the Ruth Wynn Woodard Junior Chair in Women’s Studies for the year 2011-2012. In the Summer 2011, she was the Future Minority Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Women’s and Gender Studies Department of Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) where she began her book-length project on honour killings in Canada. Tentatively entitled, Bodies that Matter in Death: Honour Killings in Canadian Racial Logics, this study focuses on the highly publicized murders of twelve Muslim Canadian women and the national debates they have evoked about the status of women in Canada, violence against women in racialized communities, immigration, assimilation, and multiculturalism. She is former National Chair of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and member of Faculty for Palestine.
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Spring 2012
Resisting Gendered and Colonial Violence Against Women
Schedule of Events
Friday, January 27, 2012
Jessica Yee
"Marginalization Doesn't Happen by Accident: Colonialism and Violence from the State"
SFU Vancouver campus
10:00 am - noon HC 1510 |
Free Workshop open to all SFU Undergraduate Graduate students Click here to register: www.sfu.ca/reserve |
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm HC 1400 |
Free Public Talk and Book Signing Click here to register: www.sfu.ca/reserve |
Jessica Yee: A proud Two Spirit youth, Jessica Yee is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, the first and only organization of its kind in North America by and for Indigenous youth working within the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health throughout the United States and Canada. Jessica is currently serving as the first Chair of the National Aboriginal Youth Council on HIV/AIDS, as well the International Indigenous HIV/AIDS Working Group, the first North American youth representative at MenEngage International Alliance for Gender Equality, and she is the North American co-chair for the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She sits on a number of national and international boards and collectives including SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, NativeOUT, Women on Web/Women on Waves, and Maggie's: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project
She is a strong believer in the power of youth voice and agency, and you can see her writing on sites like Racialicious, or watch her monologues about activism and justice on TV Ontario. She is the author and editor of "Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Communities of Colour, and Sexuality" and "Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism" released in February 2011. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work including being the 2010 recipient of the national Harmony Movement award, the 2009 recipient of the YWCA Young Woman of Distinction, a 2009/2010 National Aboriginal Role Model for the National Aboriginal Health Organization, named one of 20 International Women's Health Heroes by Our Bodies/Our Blog, and was recently awarded the Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneur Award for her founding of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. She is also the 10th anniversary Distinguished Visitor to Women's Studies at the University of Windsor and the youngest person to ever be appointed.
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Sex Trade, Social Justice & You
Friday, January 27, 2012
Jessica Yee
1-2pm: Talk in the Atrium, Maggie Benston Centre (past the Ladle), SFU Burnaby
2:30 – 4pm: Workshop in MBC 2290 (behind the copy centre), SFU Burnaby
THE TALK: Join us for an engaging and provocative talk by Jessica Yee, a self-described “Two spirit multi-racial Indigenous hip hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter.” Jessica’s talk will explore the relationship between the sex industry, Indigenous communities, anti-prostitution & anti-trafficking laws and other social responses to the sex trade.
THE WORKSHOP: Following the talk, you are invited to take part in an SFPIRG workshop where participants will have the opportunity to explore their feelings and beliefs about the sex industry, and the rights of people within it. This workshop aims to enable participants to gain additional insight into complexities of the sex trade, including looking at it through the lenses of decolonization, disability justice and anti-oppression.
This event is presented by SFPIRG in partnership with the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Both the talk and the workshop are free & open to everyone, but advance registration is required for the workshop. Email arx@sfpirg.ca to register. Childcare and transportation subsidies are available. Email admin@sfpirg.ca for more information.
SFPIRG is a student-funded and student-directed centre for social and environmental justice on SFU's Burnaby Campus. Come find us in TC326 in the Rotunda or visit our website at www.sfpirg.ca for more information.
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Lest We forget: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence December 6
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Remember Canada’s fallen women next Tuesday. Despite our peaceable self image, Canada has been home to femicide, appalling massacres and serial killers. December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. But unlike November the 11th, this National Day of mourning has not achieved the same symbolic recognition. Yet, for many women, gender war has bloody consequences. The Parliament of Canada set aside Dec. 6 as commemorative day in 1991. Read more... |
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SFU Woodward's and We Can End All Violence against Women BC Campaign present
GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE
by Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada
VANCOUVER PREMIER
DEC. 1 - 3, 2011, 7:30PM
Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hasting St, Vancouver ,BC
Ghosts of Violence is a groundbreaking multi-media ballet which brings the issue of domestic violence against women into the spotlight. It is an innovative and inspirational call for awareness, understanding and action. This original ballet brings to life stories inspired by women who have died at the hands of a partner. Through movement, theatre, music and videography, this ballet captures their memory –their struggles, their hopes, their joys and our loss.
Choreography: Igor Dobrovolskiy
Music: Alfred Schnitke, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lighting: Pierre Lavoie
Projection Design: Adam Larsen
Watch performance excerpts (12 min 31 sec)
Read performance review in Globe and Mail
EARLY BIRD TICKETS | expires October 31 - special price for all We Can BC supporters!
General: $35
Senior | Students: $21
PROMO CODE: WCBC
Call 604.873.3311 or purchase online
GSWS Proudly Sponsors Arts of Conscience
Arts of Conscience is a one-day symposium on art and aesthetics that explores peace and ways of transforming the damaging forces of war, military occupation and the resulting generations of trauma. The symposium is organized in conjunction with the visit to Vancouver by Miyako Ishiuchi, internationally renowned Japanese contemporary photographer, to celebrate her exhibition which opens on October 13th at the Audain Gallery at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Here is a chance to see Dana Claxton, part of GSWS's faculty/legacy, who will also be present (in the morning).
Click for downloadable program in pdf format (147 KB)
Registration and Tickets
- $20 ticket includes all-day symposium, screening of Linda Hoaglund's 2010 film ANPO: Art X War, bento lunch, and a cocktail reception.
- $10 for registered students and seniors
Space is limited (maximum capacity is 100). Reserve your tickets online before October 10th by e-mail: artofconscience@gmail.com or fax: 604-683-8632.
Symposium participants are strongly encouraged to see the exhibition before October 15. This will benefit both the morning and afternoon sessions. The exhibition's opening reception at MOA on October 13 from 7-9pm is open to the public.
Click here to visit UBC's Museum of Anthropology's website.
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Intersecting Critical and Creative Practices in Academia
Join special guest Leung Ping-Kwan for this free seminar organized by Dara Culhane, Helen Leung, Kirsten McAllister and Roy Miki, as we discover how to integrate critical and creative practices in the academic setting.
October 7, 2011
3:00 - 5:30
SFU Harbour Centre, room 2200
Intersecting Critical and Creative Practices in Academia is presented by the UBC Asian Studies; SFU Communications; SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; SFU Sociology and Anthropology
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Fundraiser - F Word
The F Word is holding their annual fundraiser on Wednesday, August 24th - Feminists Sound Better! This year we are holding our fundraiser at Cafe Deux Soleils: 2096 Commercial Drive. Come on out and support Vancouver's only feminist radio show and Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM. Our line up includes comedian, Lauren Cochrane, Vancouver Island Music Awards’ Female Vocalist of the Year, Emily Spiller, and local 5 piece hip hop/soul band, Buzy B and the Honeycomb Kids. Dance your feminist pants off, this is sure to be an amazing evening! $10 at the door (no one will be turned away). Awesome raffle prizes generously donated by: Womyns' Ware, Black Dog Video, Mintage, and Sparticus Books. Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00pm. For more information on The F Word, please visit: www.feminisms.org and for more information about the fundraiser please visit the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144554878962399#!/event.php?eid=144554878962399.
Get the word out by printing and posting our downloadable poster here (use legal size paper for jpg 528 KB).
Thank you for your support!
The F Word Media Collective
Vancouver, BC (Coast Salish Territory)
Check our website and blog at www.feminisms.org
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“We Demand ”: History/Sex/Activism In Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia
August 25-28, 2011
On August 28, 1971 over two hundred lesbian and gay activists gathered on Parliament Hill to demand the federal government bring an end to laws and practices that criminalized, marginalized, and stigmatized lesbians and gays. Acting in solidarity with their central Canadian allies, Vancouver activists staged the same action on the steps of their city’s Court House. It was the first recorded national political action undertaken by gay liberationists and lesbian feminist activists in Canada.
“We Demand” marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1971 action. The conference seeks to showcase current work on all aspects of the history of sexuality in Canada, from pre-contact to present times.
Keynote speaker: Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Other confirmed speakers include Mary Louise Adams, Karen Dubinsky, Gary Kinsman, Line Chamberland, and Steven Maynard.
Conference organizers:
Elise Chenier, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
Patrizia Gentile, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, Carleton University
Cameron Duder, Independent Scholar
Sources of Support:
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Women's Worlds 2011
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is proud to sponsor the upcoming Women's Worlds 2011 conference, July 3-7, 2011 in Ottawa-Gatineau. The main theme of Women's Worlds 2011 is "Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world" because where globalization and women are concerned, provocative questions abound.
http://www.womensworlds.ca/supporters
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Media and Democracy Day 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
12:00 - 5:00 pm
Vancouver Public Library, Central Library.
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is proud to sponsor a panel on
Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Media
2:30-4:00 pm
starring Amber Dawn, Marsha Newbery, Mary Lynn Young.
Gender, Sexuality and Violence: Media Representations Panel for the Media Democracy Day 2010 Report
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Equal Voice's Experiences
Equal Voice's Experiences Program Presents:
Young Women in Politics: Speakers Panel and Round Robin
What: Participants and elected officials from all levels of government and all parties discuss the challenges and solutions to young women's involvement in politics, followed by small group discussions. Ample opportunity to ask questions and talk personally with the panelists.
When: Thursday, Nov. 4th, 2010, Doors 6:30pm, Event 7pm-9:30pm
Where: SFU Harbour Centre, Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre, Room 1400-1430
Panelists:
Linda Reid, Liberal MLA
Michelle Mungall, NDP MLA
Maria Minna, Liberal MP
Sophie Pierre, Chief Commissioner, BC Treaty Commission, former Chief of St. Mary's Indian Band
Cost: FREE, RSVP requested
Door prizes, coffee and desert.
Contact Jennifer Day at jday@equalvoice.ca or 604-754-7940
Student participant comments about event:
Coming at the evening from the perspective of someone who had never considered a roll in politics for herself, I think I learned a lot. I'd always seen myself in a sort of opposition to the political system; either too fundamentally against it to work well along side it, or too much of a caricature of an angry feminist to work within it.
The politicians I see in the newspaper don't look like me. They look polite, well put together, and dignified. Most of them are men, most of them are white. They don't talk about patriarchy, or swear, or get nastily snappish about the use of gendered profanity.
I guess I should know better at this point than to let the media inform my perceptions about any group of women, but what surprised me the most about the speakers at Equal Voices was the role activism had played in leading them into politics. Be it issues surrounding the environment, First Nations rights, immigration, anti-war groups, it became clear over the evening that being an activist was not, as I had imagined it, in opposition to being in politics. The two can sometimes go hand in hand. Door to door canvassers sometimes become MLAs... and maybe green haired WS majors with '#*$% the Patriarchy' t-shirts might someday become Prime Minister.
Hey, a girl can dream, right?
-Stephanie Shea
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Women in a Changing Downtown Eastside
Invitation to the October 22 launch of www.womendtes.com
Please join us Friday October 22 from 5-7pm at The Interurban Gallery & Community Art Space (1, East Hastings at Carrall) to celebrate the
launch of the multi-faceted website, “Women in a Changing Downtown
Eastside" - www.womendtes.com
"Women in a Changing Downtown Eastside" has been part of a collective
effort, over many months, to look at the impact of gentrification,
oppression, poverty, and racism on women in the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver, and to build a library of resources, maps, information and
images around this community and its history.
While many who call this neighborhood home are negatively impacted by
life in a society that is increasingly polarized, we know that it is
women who are particularly vulnerable to the increasing displacement
and disenfranchisement that is taking place in this both vibrant and
suffering community.
We welcome you to join us for our launch.
Please RSVP at: info@womendtes.com
This project is supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Women's History Month Event
In recognition of Persons Day and Women's History Month, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies with the help of the Margaret Lowe Benston fund is proud to present Dr. Malinda Smith.
Dr. Malinda Smith
University of Alberta, Department of Political Science
will be giving a talk on:
"The Status of Women: Interrogating the 'Post' in Post-Equality Talk."
October 21st, 2010
12:30 pm
AQ 6106
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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King with guests of honour at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the five Alberta women whose efforts resulted in the Persons Case, which established the rights of women to hold public office in Canada, June 11, 1938
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(Front row, L-R): Mrs. Muir Edwards, daughter-in-law of Henrietta Muir Edwards; Mrs. J.C. Kenwood, daughter of Judge Emily Murphy; Hon. Mackenzie King; Mrs. Nellie McClung. (Rear row, L-R): Senators Iva Campbell Fallis, Cairine Wilson |
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Click here for more details about the "Famous Five" and the Persons Case.
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Sex, Money and Media
Sex, Money and Media
October 14-16, 2010
A three day symposium on the art, business and technology of women in media.
Conference Co-Chairs: Catherine Murray, Alison Beale and Rina Fracatelli (Women in View).
Conference Program available - click here
Schedule At-A-Glance - click here
For more details please visit the Women in View website at http://www.womeninview.ca/
SexMoneyMedia: Feminist Aftershocks
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Canada Research Chair Seminar
Cindy Patton: The New Complex Patient? Diseases, Systems and Interventions
Thursday, October 14th
11:30 am
SFU Burnaby-ASB 10900
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Edging Forward, Acting Up:
Gender and Women's History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action
Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women's History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action is the upcoming conference of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History/Comité canadien d'histoire des femmes (CCWH-CCHF).Held at Simon Fraser University's beautiful downtown campus, at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the conference will run from 12-15 August, 2010.
The conference program crosses national boundaries, with sessions on women's and gender history in Canada, the United States, Japan and Great Britain. Themes are wide-ranging, including social policy, art history, literature, activism, the law, pedagogy, health, religion and sexuality, and participants include academics, scholars, teachers, public historians, visual artists and community activists.
Please join us for the conference and for a series of special events,including:
Keynote: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba. "Termsof Reference and Endearment; the Global, the Local and the Writing of Gender and Women's History."
Plenary sessions: Celebrating the work of influential feminist historians Jean Barman, Andrée Lévesque, and Veronica Strong-Boag
Panel: "Absence, Silence, Action and Voice in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside." Panel and presentation featuring the work of artist/activist Pamela Masik, and including residents and activists from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Free to the public.
Play: "Ribbon," written and performed by Patricia Darbasie. This play tells the story of Alberta's turn-of-the-century black history through the lives and stories of two women. Free to conference participants, $5 general admission.
For further information on the program, registration, and Vancouver accommodation, see our website at:
http://www.chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf
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Convocation
Congratulations to all the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies students who are graduating in 2010's convocation ceremony!
Special congratulations to Xinying Hu, our second student to receive her PhD in Women's Studies!
Also, congratulations to Alexandra Harrison Catchpole (WS Major with the highest GPA of the graduating class) and Shari Willis (WS Major with the second highest GPA of the graduating class)!!
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Ruth Wynn Woodward Lecture Series
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
“Sex, Gender, & Pharmaceuticals: The Search for the 'Pink' Viagra”
Thea Cacchioni
Wednesday, April 21
HC 1415
Listen here - Ruth Wynn Woodward Series Wed Apr 21
"Cells and Citizens: Feminist Desires and Bios at the Turn of the Century"
Alessandra Capperdoni
Tuesday, April 20
HC 1425
Listen here - Ruth Wynn Woodward Series Tue Apr 20
“Kung Fu Invaders or Heroes Two: Masculinity, Race and Cross-Cultural Film Reception in Vancouver’s Chinatown”
Joseph Clark
Monday, April 26
HC 1415
Listen here - Ruth Wynn Woodward Series Mon Apr 26
“Empathetic Identification and the Politics of Nostalgia”
Mandy Koolen
Tuesday, April 27
HC 2270
Listen here - Ruth Wynn Woodward Series Tues Apr 27
“Writing Trans Genre: Preliminary Sketch of a Minor Literature that Isn't”
Trish Salah
Thursday, April 29
HC 1425
Listen here - Ruth Wynn Woodward Series Thu Apr 29 2010
Click here for Speakers' bios.
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is proud to be a community partner for the following films being shown at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival:
Africa Rising: The Grassroots Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation
Saturday, May 15, 12:00 pm, Pacific
Cinémathèque
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/africa_rising.html
Beauty Refugee
Sunday, May 9, 4:00 pm, Vancity Theatre
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/beauty_refugee.html
The Erectionman
Tuesday, May 11, 6:30 pm, Pacific Cinémathèque
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/erectionman.html
Orgasm Inc.
Tuesday, May 11, 8:00 pm, Pacific Cinémathèque
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/orgasm_inc.html
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