Posts tagged CFR

Panels, Workshops, l’Université féministe d’été

Apr 2nd

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in Other Events

It was a great privilege to see Sherene Razack speak today at an event organized by students at York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Time to thank the people -faculty, students and staff, who roll up their sleeves and make these things happen.

Here is another set of things you may wish you could be at:

 

Radical Formations: Sex, Race, Trans

How do social movements resist and react to new measures for legal equality? This interdisciplinary panel tackles this question via resistance to intersectional state violence, transgender people’s legal consciousness, and race-based critiques of rights.

Panelists:

Sharon Cowan, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Roderick Ferguson, American More >

Feminist Pedagogies; Gender and the “Arab Spring”

Apr 1st

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in Other Events

Have you read this book: The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference.  Roderick A Ferguson, U Minnesota Press (here)?

 

I came across this notice via twitter:

On Friday, April 5th, Roderick Ferguson, Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, will speak for the [Columbia] Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality’s Feminist Pedagogy series.  He will be discussing his book The Reorder of Things (click here for the original notice)

First thought – Must get book

Second thought:  Feminist Pedgogy series? Must get one of those!

 

This week at Yorku, April 5th and 6th, More >

Yorku Centre for Feminist Research: Upcoming Events of Interest

Mar 27th

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in Links we Like

Click through for the CFR list of Events, CFP’s and Opportunities. You can join the listserv on their page. This week: Vagina Monologues at york, and:

“Trapped in one of the oldest ways:’ Indigenous Women, Literature, and Law” (March 28, 2012 at U of T) Click here for more. Cheryl Suzack is an assistant professor of English, and was educated at the University of Guelph and the University of Alberta. Her research explores the intersections between Indigenous law and literature with a focus on Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period. She is a co-editor and contributor to Indigenous Women and More >

Friday March 23 Book Launch: Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy, ++

Mar 22nd

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in (New) in Print

Meg Luxton and Mary Jane Mossman (eds) will launch this IFLS/CFR sponsored collection tomorrow March 23, 2012, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  FSCR (Founders 305) at York University.  This book “examines current ideas about feminism in relation to knowledge, education and society, and the future potential for feminist research and teaching in the university context.” Click on the image to order through Fernwood.

Contents of Reconsidering Knowledge: Introduction (Mary Jane Mossman and Meg Luxton) • Part One: Feminism and the Academy: Revealing the “Other” • Feminism and the Academy: Transforming Knowledge? (Meg Luxton) • Cartographies of Knowledge and More >

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March 23 Book Launch: Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy

Mar 14th

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in (New) in Print

 

Come and join York Feminist scholars and students at the book launch for the IFLS/CFR sponsored project

Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy, Edited by Meg Luxton & Mary Jane Mossman

March 23, 2012, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  FSCR (Founders 305)

How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Emerging from the lecture series “Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy,” held at York University in 2009, Reconsidering Knowledge examines current ideas about feminism in relation to knowledge, education and society, and the future potential for feminist research and teaching in the university context. Connecting early stories of women who defied More >

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