Current CFR Research Projects

Current CFR Research Projects

Women In Conflict Zones Network (WICZNET) www.yorku.ca/wicz
The Network works to develop spaces that allow for dialogue concerning theory, empirical knowledge and policy development in the area of gender and militarized conflict.

The Feminist Journals Network (FJN)
25 journals from more than 20 countries including the three main academic and popular journals in Canada: Atlantis, Canadian Woman Studies and Recherches Feministes.

Penetrating Neoliberalism: Changing Relations of Gender, Race, Ability and Class
This project brings together researchers to investigate the ways in which more than twenty years of neoliberal policies have reconfigured the patterns of daily life.

CEDAW and the Status of Women in Ontario
Professor Barbara Cameron is organising a network of Ontario women's groups to produce an Ontario-focused "shadow" NGO report to be submitted to the UN treaty body relating to Canada's obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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
Winter 2010 Events

Tuesday, January 19, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Local Food and Food Justice
With speakers Harriet Friedmann (University of Toronto); Lord Abbey The Stop Community Food Centre); Graham Corbett (Whole Village Community Shared Agriculture; Evelyn Encalada (Justicia4Migrant Workers);(Anan Lololi, AfriCan Food Basket); Sally Miller (West End Food Coop). Co-sponsored by the Foodshed Project, the Community Arts Program, and the Centre for Feminist Research.

Friday, January 29, 11:30am-1:30pm
Chandra Mohanty: Sites of Feminist Knowledge Production: The Academy and Beyond
Vanier 135, Vanier College

To RSVP, please email cfrevent@yorku.ca with 'RSVP January 29' as the subject line.

VIDEOS OF PAST TALKS

U50

Professor Nadje Al-Ali's talk here.

Professor Anne Shteir's talk here

Professor Elisabeth Young Bruehl

Doing Theory: Marxism, Feminism and Critical Race Theory

Welcome and Nahla Abdo

Jasodhara Bagchi: Reviewing the political: Nation, Gender, Class and Ethnicity in India

David McNally: Everyone is a Philosopher: Mapping the Social with Bannerji, Gramsci and Marx

Radhika Mongia

Ananya Mukherjee: ‘Always Towards’: Thinking about ‘Development’ with Himani Bannerji

Dorothy Smith: Shifting terrains of struggle ...

Davina Bhandar: Doing Time: Emplacement, Belonging and Migrant Ideologies