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Call for Committee Members: CFR Feminist Festival

The Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University is launching a new annual Feminist Festival, a vibrant public event that brings together art, ideas, and activism. The festival will celebrate feminist creativity and collective transformation through debates, performances, installations, film, posters, and conversations—opening a shared space for dialogue between high school students, university communities, artists, and activists. The Feminist […]

CFR commits to boycott of Israeli academic institutions

On October 1, 2025 the Centre for Feminist Research at York University adopted a historic resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The resolution states: "Be it resolved that, the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) formally endorses and will honour the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions due to their complicity in […]

Congratulations to 2023-2024 Mary McEwan Award winner, Dr. Linn Biörklund!

Dr. Linn Biörklund has won the CFR's 2023-2024 Mary McEwan Memorial Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled Moving, Waiting, Searching Across Borders: Gendered Geographies of Violence, Disappearance, and Contestation in Southern Mexico. Dr. Linn Biörklund is a Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. In September 2025, she will begin a SSHRC-funded […]

Call for Papers for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference

The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the fifth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Connection.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 15-17, 2025. See the full call at the following link: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/2025/02/CFP-Connection-Final-Draft.pdf Check out the Critical Femininities Research Cluster page […]

Sign up for the AI & Feminism Workshop on March 15

The CFR & CIFAL are organizing a one-day professional development workshop called "AI and Feminism: Foundations of a Critical Dialogue on Gender, Power, and Technology. This interdisciplinary course bridges foundational concepts in artificial intelligence (AI) with feminist theories, offering a critical framework to examine how AI technologies reinforce or challenge societal power dynamics. Participants will […]

CFR OPEN HOUSE 2023

CFR OPEN HOUSE | 626 KANEFF TOWER | TUESDAY OCTOBER 24, 2023 | 11AM-12:30PM It's not too late to RSVP here! Stop by for tea, coffee, cookies and fruit, to share ideas and learn how the CFR can support your research and events.We are happy to talk about supporting your events in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities […]

Call for Applications - Graduate Student Representatives on CFR Executive Committee

The Centre for Feminist Research is looking for two Graduate Students to join its Executive Committee for the 2021-22 year.  Position Description  The Executive Committee is responsible for matters of regular management of the Centre and serves in a consultative and monitoring capacity in relation to the Director (and any Associate Directors).  The Executive meets once a month in the Fall and Winter Terms and when necessary […]

Call for Applications - Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies for 2021-2022

The Sexuality Studies Program in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies is pleased to announce a Visiting Scholar position in partnership with the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University for the 2021-22 academic year.  We invite applicants who have/will have acquired a doctorate in sexuality studies and/or transgender studies or a related field by […]

Endgendering Public Engagement, Democratizing Public Space

Principal Investigator: Dr. Barbara Cameron Funder: SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Partners: The Centre for Feminist Research, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA).  Project Description: Engendering Public Engagement, Democratizing Public Space is a community-university collaboration funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant and […]

Emergent: coping with complex phenomena

Principal Investigator: Dr. Roberta Buiani Funder: SSHRC Insight Development Grant Project Description:  Emergent is a research creation project investigating ways in which we can better comprehend and eventually cope with new "categories of the living"- those newly emerging or newly created life forms that won’t fit or will exceed the categories defined by traditional taxonomies. New […]