Innovations in Feminist Methodologies: An Emerging Scholar Roundtable

Date: October 16, 2024
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm ET
Location: Online
Register: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdeCuqj8rGtYNfW1fwIvWnBxdU3fT6raS

This roundtable highlights research from current PhD students that advances feminist approaches to the study of political science. Exploring different research topics and methods participants will discuss how their current research is pushing the discipline in new directions.  

Featuring: Iris Bradford, Vanita Clare, Meagan Cloutier, Tka Pinnock 

Moderated by Sarah Wiebe 

Beyond the Interface: Critical Perspectives on Sex Work and SexTech

Date: October 17-19, 2024
Location: Online
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the-interface-critical-perspectives-of-sex-work-and-sextech-tickets-1039013165347?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Contact: beyondtheinterfaceconference@gmail.com

Join us for a groundbreaking 3-day virtual conference that will ignite your curiosity and challenge your perceptions. The Centre for Feminist Research’s “Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster” at York University is hosting an immersive exploration of the intersection between sex, technology, and society.

With nearly 40 captivating presentations and panels, this event will delve into the hottest topics in the field, including:

• Legal and Ethical Debates: Navigating the complex legal landscape and ethical considerations surrounding sextech and sex work.
• Inclusive Erotic Spaces: Examining representation and inclusivity in virtual realms and exploring how to create more equitable online experiences.
• Global Power Dynamics: Unpacking the impact of neoliberal globalization and neocolonialism on digital sex work.
• Wellness and Safety Online: Addressing the critical issues of health and safety in online environments.
• Technological Innovation and Social Change: Exploring how technology is shaping the future of sex work and social justice.

Featuring speakers from around the globe, including South Africa, France, Colombia, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and Canada, this conference promises a diverse and thought-provoking experience.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with peer-led sex worker organizations, community-based researchers, technology companies, and leading experts in the field. Together, we’ll push the boundaries of knowledge and create a more equitable and inclusive future.

Register now and prepare to be inspired.

Sponsored by OPIRG York, the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre; York Centre for Asian Research; Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies; Centre for Feminist Research; Harriet Tubman Institute; the Graduate Program in Film/Cinema & Media Arts; the Department of Sociology; the Resource Centre for Public Sociology; and the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at York University.

Advancing Equity and Applying Intersectionality in Europe: Challenges and Contradictions

Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm ET
Location: S638 Ross Building (Hybrid Event)
Zoom Registration: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpduCqrTIsG9Bt9fYc3Oxpll4L3dTJKgv5#/registration

2025 will mark half a century since the first European directives prohibiting identity-based discrimination. However, social inequities are increasing. Moreover, equity policy remains hugely ‘siloed,’ predominantly focused around single issues/identities, best serving intersectionally privileged groups (e.g. white women). Yet, intersectionality, the Black feminist theory that inequalities are indivisible from one another, is increasingly difficult for those with influence on equity policy to ignore or explicitly resist. This presentation will give an overview of intersectionality, identify barriers to its operationalization in Europe, examine the UK in more detail as a case study, and reflect on contemporary challenges and contradictions for advancing equity and applying intersectionality. 

Ashlee Christoffersen is a Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research is about the operationalization of intersectionality in policy and practice. She is the author of The Politics of Intersectional Practice: Representation, Coalition, and Solidarity in UK NGOs (2024, Bristol University Press), and articles about equity policy and intersectionality in the European Journal of Politics and Gender, Social Politics, Canadian Public Administration & Policy & Politics. 

CFR Annual Meet and Greet

Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm ET
Location: 626 Kaneff Tower
RSVP: cfr@yorku.ca

Meet the new CFR Director and connect with CFR associates at the CFR’s annual meet and greet! If you are curious about joining the Centre or ones of its research clusters, have ideas for events or research grants for the year ahead, or just want to chat with other feminist researchers at York University, this is the perfect opportunity to connect. Please RSVP to CFR Coordinator Andi Schwartz at cfr@yorku.ca

Straight Work Curious Support Group

This event is for sex workers only (inclusive of escorts, strippers, alternative/erotic massage providers, street-based workers, etc.). Registration is required to protect everyone’s privacy and in support of a safer space.

Hosted by Maggie’s, Work Safe Twerk Safe, and the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster in the Centre for Feminist Research at York University & facilitated by a career stripper who is transitioning into nonprofit/legal clinic work.

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm ET
Location: Virtual
Registration: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtf-ysqj0pE9c2G8HvLBmw3mx8uAe2X6Qe#/registration

Genocide, Resistance and Rescue: Agency in the Rwandan Genocide with Dr. Jennie Burnet

Part of the series Unsettling Anthropology: Violence, Terror & Resistance

Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time: 2:45pm – 4:45pm ET
Location: Virtual
Register: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcod-uvpzIrHtA9OF3FIIjTE5j9PSF37l8R#/registration

The recent calls to moralize violence, to condemn or to relativize it, disregard the inherently political nature of violence, that violence ‘creates and sustains’ political meanings (Paul Kahn 2008). This talk series focuses on political imagination behind all acts of violence, of the willingness of people to kill and being killed and, especially, aims to unsettle common assumptions and moral rhetorics which are pressed down upon us to condemn the violence of ‘the others,’ disregarding the meanings of and the historical context of their actions.

Jennie E. Burnet is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute
for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta,
United States of America. Her research explores the cultural and psychological aspects
of war, genocide, and mass violence and the micro-level impact of large-scale social
change in the context of conflict. She is the award-winning author of Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda. Her 2023 book, To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue during the Rwandan Genocide, examines how and why some Rwandans risked their lives to save Tutsi from the carnage.