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Penetrating
Neoliberalism: Changing Relations of Gender, Race, Ability and Class CEDAW and the
Status of Women in Ontario Gender and Public Policy http://genderandpublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ Since September 2008 about 25 York faculty and PhD students have been meeting monthly to discuss work in progress and to review current public policy issues. It prepared a statement in response to the recent federal budget and has set up a blog on the CFR website to make its analyses available and to invite on-line discussion. |
The Centre for Feminist Research/ Le centre de recherches féministes promotes feminist activities and collaborative research at York University and works to establish research linkages between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities.
Established in 1991, CFR carries out its mandate by supporting individual and collaborative research. , developing research materials, communicating research results, providing opportunities and training for graduate students, fostering relationships with community organizations and government personnel, and through hosting visiting scholars from outside the university nationally and internationally.
CFR produces a bi-weekly newsletter that highlights Feminist related activities at York and in Toronto. Please email cfr@yorku.ca to be added to our low-traffic list-serv.
[Please note that the website is under construction and will be re-launched shortly. In the meantime, we will be posting announcements on this page]
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Centre for Feminist Research
You can see Professor Nadje Al-Ali's talk here.
You can see Professor Anne Shteir's talk here
Doing Theory: Marxism, Feminism, Critical Race Theory. This conference celebrates Himani Bannerji on the occasion of her upcoming retirement from more than four decades of inspirational writings and teaching. Himani Bannerji is an activist scholar whose disciplinary focus ranges from Marxist thought, feminist and critical race theories and cultural studies to women and development, colonial and post-colonial social and political formations, nationalist histories, India Studies, and Canadian Studies. Her writing includes Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism, Editor and contributor(2001), Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism (2001),The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender (2000), Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism (1995), Returning The Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics, Editor and contributor (1993), The Writing on the Wall: Essays on Culture and Politics (1993), Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles, Bannerji et al (1991) and The Mirror of Class: Essays in Bengali Theatre (1998). She has a forthcoming volume, Demography and Democracy: Essays Nationalism, Gender and Ideology. She has also written and translated poetry, short stories and a children’s novel. Her writings have inspired and influenced a number of scholars. Their explorations, to which the evolving work of Himani Bannerji has remained central, will be the focus of discussions at this conference. What is the role of theory, particularly Marxist, feminist, anti-racist theory in understanding history, politics and subjectivities? What are the fissures in feminist thought? How have colonial and nationalist histories been written? How have `race' and gender been central to the formation of the Canadian nation-state? What are the limits of multiculturalism? How has gender been central to colonial and nationalist projects in India? Keynote lectures by Jasodhara Bagchi. Dorothy Smith and Sherene Razack will address the contributions of Himani Bannerji’s work to these questions. Lectures will be followed by a panel in which speakers will address topics in their current work that build on, extend, or interrogate issues that Himani Banerji's work has made inescapable. Jasodhara Bagchi is a retired Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, a leading Indian feminist and the founder of the School of Women’s Studies in Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Her focus areas of research include women’s studies, women’s writing, 19th century English and Bengali literature, the reception of Positivism in Bengal, nationalism and motherhood and the Partition of India. Her writings include The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal 1970-2000: The Challenges Ahead (2005), and the editing the seminal anthologies From Trauma to Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India (2003) and Indian Women, Myth and Reality(1997). Davina Bhandar is an Assistant Professor in the department of Canadian Studies at Trent University. Her current research engages in contemporary critiques of the concept of citizenship that have emerged through notions of transnationalism and politics of diaspora, particularly focused on examining the notion of the migrant concept of citizenship. Her teaching and research intersect in the fields of contemporary political and social theory, critical race studies, post-colonial theory and feminist theory. Dr. Bhandar’s work focuses on the examination of citizenship practices from “below” or rather through acts of governance, freedom, migration and immigration. Barbara Godard is Avie Bennett Historica Chair of Canadian Literature and Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought and Women's Studies at York University. She has published widely on Canadian and Quebec cultures and on feminist and literary theory. Her works include "Deleuze and Translation" (Parallax 2000), "Notes from the Cultural Field: Canadian Literature from Identity to Hybridity" (ECW 2001), "L'Ethique du traduire: Antoine Berman et le 'virage éthique' en traduction" (TTR 2001), "Resignifying Culture: Notes from the Ontario Culture Wars" (Money Art Value 2001), "Translation Poetics from Modernity to Post-Modernity" (Translation Translation 2003) and "Border or Babel? Logics of Relations in the Canadian Imaginary" (2003). Dorothy Smith is a Canadian sociologist who has had immense impacts on sociology, women’s studies, psychology, educational studies, feminist theory, family studies and methodology. Her writings include Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People (2005), Writing the Social: Critique, Theory, and Investigations (1999), The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge (1990) David McNally is a Professor of political science at York University in Toronto, Ontario and chair of the university's political science department. His research interests include Globalization and global justice movements; concepts of freedom and democracy in political thought; radical theories of language and culture; Marxism, feminism and anti-racism; radical political economy. His most recent work is Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (revised 2007). Shahrzad Mojab is a Professor in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her areas of research and teaching are women, state, globalization and citizenship; women, war, militarization, violence and learning; and comparative analysis of lifelong learning theory and practice; and feminism, colonialism and imperialism. Her most recent work is Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (2004) co-edited with Nahla Abdo Radhika Mongia teaches in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Programs in Sociology, Women's Studies, and Social and Political Thought at York University. Her current research is situated at the intersection of history, law, and political theory and explores the makings of the global modern.
Ananya Mukherjee is an
Associate Professor, Political Science, International Development
Studies, Sherene Razack is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE of the University of Toronto. Her area of research focuses on race and gender in the law. Her most recent book is, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics (2008) and she is the editor of Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society (2003). Makeda Silvera Makeda is the co-founder and managing editor of Sister Vision Press and is the author of two collections of short stories, Her Head a Village (1994) and Remembering G (1990). She is the editor of The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature (1994), Ma-Ka: Diaspora Juks (1997) and the groundbreaking Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology (1991). The Heart Does Not Bend is her first novel. She lives in Toronto. Sunera Thobani is an Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at University of British Columbia. Research interests include globalization, citizenship, migration and race and gender relations. Her most recent work is Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (2007) Judith Whitehead is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests include Gender, the environment and development, theory, discourse and society, anthropology of the body; South Asia. Along with Himani Bannerji and Shahrzad Mojab, she edited the 2001 collection Of Property and Propriety: Gender and Class in Colonialism and Nationalism.
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09:30--Welcome & Introductions
The symposium is free and open to all. Paid tickets are required for
dinner and must be purchased by Dec 5th, 2009 by emailing
cfr@yorku.ca
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