The Centre for Feminist Research / Le centre de recherches féministes promotes feminist activities and collaborative research at York University by consistently, working to establish and maintain research linkages between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities. Feminist research in it's broadest term may be conceived, as being concerned with issues of women, gender, class, race, sexuality, ability and feminism.
The CFR continues to welcome feminist initiatives from the arts, social sciences, sciences and engineering - bring your scholarship, creative works, policy papers, and ideas to share with like-minded colleagues! We especially welcome margin-to-centre feminist perspectives.
The 2026 CFR Conference is on October 22 ASSEMBLIA: Gatherings, Hysterics and Rapture
Save the Date!
The Centre for Feminist Research Presents:
ASSEMBLIA: Gatherings, Hysterics and Rapture
Thursday October 22nd, 10am – 3pm (keynote 11:30-12:30), 519 Kaneff Tower
Please register by October 8th: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/cfr-conference-registration-2026-assemblia/
(registration is free)
You are warmly invited to join us for the inaugural conference in what we hope will become an annual event organized by graduate students and members of the CFR. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for emerging and independent artists and scholars by bringing together studio practice, criticism and theory, gender studies, and art history.
Our keynote speaker will be Kerem Güman, Visiting Assistant Professor jointly appointed across the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design, the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies), and the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. Their talk is entitled Glitch, Endure, Assemble: Queer Digital Bodies at the Threshold (see talk abstract and bio below). The keynote will take place from 11:30-12:30.
Several graduate student panels will be organized around themes that include Hysteria as Care: Collective Resistance and Gathering; Rapture, Ritual, and the Embodied Experiences; Beyond the Normative Body: Queer Affect, Monstrosity, and More-than-Human Relations; Memory, Language and the Making of Self; and Fat Studies.
We are grateful to the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation (VPRI) and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) for funding this event.
More details will be forthcoming, including the conference schedule. Questions can be directed to cfrfeministfestival@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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The CFR at a Glance
600+
Events and Publications since the CFR's inception in 1991.
300+
Faculty, Research and Graduate Associates on average each year.
80%
CFR Supported Grant Application Success rate for 2022-2023
What We Do
- Support and guide the development of grants including designing budgets and knowledge mobilization plans, and providing editing and project planning with content expertise
- Provide post-award support for researchers who house their grants at the Centre for Feminist Research
- Host events and provide administrative support in the planning of events, including applying for funding
- Support the development of new research clusters to connect associates around topics of interest
- Provide knowledge mobilization support through multiple platforms
- Host Visiting Scholars, Visiting Graduate Students and Associates within York and beyond
- Share feminist opportunities, events and calls in our bi-weekly newsletter
- Disseminate research, insights and ideas through our Feminists in Focus Series
- The CFR is part of a North American network of feminist research organizations
- The CFR is the host institution for the interdisciplinary feminist sessions at the annual Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences
The CFR welcomes feminist initiatives from the arts, social sciences, professions, and science - bring your scholarship, creative works, policy papers, and ideas to share with like-minded colleagues! We especially welcome margin-to-centre feminist perspectives.
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