TORONTO, October 20, 1999 -- UK sociologist Dr. Carol Smart, distinguished scholar and dynamic speaker on the family and the well-being of children, will be at York University on October 26-27 to discuss her trailblazing research on children and divorce and child sexual abuse.
Smart is founding Director of the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship & Childhood at the University of Leeds. She will deliver two lectures at York entitled, Objects of Concern?: Children and Divorce and The Discursive Struggle over Child Sexual Abuse. Smart's academic research is directly relevant to policy development in family law and government social services. The lectures are sponsored by York's Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, and by the School of Women's Studies, respectively.
WHO:
Dr. Carol Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, UK
Co-author with Bren Neale of Family Fragments? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999);
co-editor with Elizabeth B. Silva of The ėNew' Family? (London: Sage, 1999)
1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor at York's Osgoode Hall Law School
WHAT:
Lecture: Objects of Concern?: Children and Divorce
Tuesday, October 26, 3:30 p.m.
Faculty Common Room, 2nd floor, Osgoode Hall Law School
York University, 4700 Keele St.
WHAT:
Lecture: The Discursive Struggle over Child Sexual Abuse
Wednesday, October 27, 12:30 p.m.
Vanier Senior Common Room 010, School of Women's Studies
York University, 4700 Keele St.
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For more information, please contact:
Prof. Mary Jane Mossman
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
(416) 736-5547
mmossman@yorku.ca
Lily Gilbert
Centre for Feminist Research
York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 55915
lgilbert@yorku.ca
Joanne Rappaport
Institute for Feminist Legal Studies
Osgoode Hall Law School
(416) 736-2100, ext. 77562
joanner@yorku.ca
Susan Bigelow
Media Relations, York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22091
YU/106/99
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