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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 […]

Now Open: Nominations for the 2024-25 Mary McEwan Award

The CFR is now accepting nominations for the 2024-25 Mary McEwan Memorial Dissertation Award. Named in honour of Dr. Mary McEwan, a feminist psychiatrist, this annual award of $1,000.00 will be awarded to one PhD dissertation produced in the 2024-2025 academic year at York University in the area of feminist scholarship. A committee of faculty […]

Now Open: Call for Graduate Student Representatives on the CFR Executive Committee

The Centre for Feminist Research has an open call for two Graduate Students to join its Executive Committee for the 2025-26 year. Applications are due Tuesday, September 30, 2025.   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). For 2025-26, meetings will take place […]

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 […]

CFR Statement on the Suspension of Admissions to the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at York University 

Centre for Feminist Research Statement on the Suspension of Admissions to the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at York University  February 24, 2025  The Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University expresses deep concern over the recent decision by York’s senior administration to suspend first-year admissions to the School of Gender, Sexuality […]

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 […]

Beyond the Interface Conference Recordings Now Available

In honour of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on December 17, organizers have made recordings of the Beyond the Interface conference public. In October, the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work research cluster at the CFR organized a 3-day virtual conference called Beyond the Interface: Critical Perspectives of Sex Work and Sextech. […]

Call for Committee Members for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference

The Critical Femininities Research Cluster is seeking applicants to join the conference committee in the following positions: Social Media Officer (1 position), Communications and Design Officer (1 position), Funding Coordinator (1 position), and General Committee Member (3 positions). Please send your CV and a short statement (maximum 1 page) outlining your interest and/or experience in […]