Professor Haideh Moghissi's 1999 book on feminism and Islam finds new readers in Indonesia

About five years ago, Haideh Moghissi heard of plans to translate into Indonesian her 1999 book, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis. She didn’t hear anything more until two months ago when, lo and behold, she learned it had not only been translated, it had been published. Slowly, over the past 12 […]

Yonge Street covers Professor Nancy Nicol's SSHRC-funded global gender identity discrimination project

Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as York University Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]

Professor Obiora Okafor elected to UN Human Rights Council advisory committee

Last week, York law Professor Obiora Okafor was elected to the advisory committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Nigerian-born professor brings his expertise in international law, human rights law,  and immigration and refugee law, especially as it relates to Africa, to the advisory committee. “The committee is the think tank of the […]

Professor Saeed Rahnema among distinguished thinkers speaking today on the Middle East

The revolutions in the Middle East have, in their wake, left countries struggling with how to reassert relations with regimes that are in transition. This afternoon, from 2 to 4pm at the Vivian & David Campbell Conference Centre at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, York political science Professor Saeed Rahnema (right) will […]

Osgoode faculty discuss global legal challenges in India

Eight faculty members of York’s Osgoode Hall Law School recently visited India, where they continued a conversation with their counterparts that began last year on governance in a rapidly globalizing world and the impact on social justice, human rights, international trade and foreign investment, and environmental law. Right: Professor Sanjeev Purshotam Sahni (left), head of […]

York-led global project to examine criminalization of sexual orientation

Nancy Nicol’s team receives $1 million to study LGBT human rights around the world York University visual arts professor Nancy Nicol will lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). […]

Professor Sheila Cavanagh publishes book on public bathrooms, sexuality, gender and segregation

Few people consider the public washrooms they use as bastions of segregation, but for York University sexuality studies Professor Sheila Cavanagh, these places are in fact among the last gender segregated public places in western countries. Right: Sheila Cavanagh In her new book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination, Cavanagh, a queer theorist, […]

Chancellor and professors to discuss social justice and human rights January 12

Chancellor Roy McMurtry and three York professors will discuss social justice and human rights on a panel next Wednesday as part of the Research Matters Speakers Series. McMurtry, former attorney general of Ontario, will open with remarks on social justice in Canada. Each panelist will speak about a different aspect of the theme, followed by a […]

SSHRC-funded international workshop examines forced marriages in conflict stituations

York law & society Professor Annie Bunting (LLB '88) and The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples are hosting an international workshop on forced marriage in conflict situations today and tomorrow in Room 305 York Lanes on the Keele campus. Left: Annie Bunting Bringing together historians of slavery and women's human rights […]

York-led legal challenge helps strike down Ontario prostitution law

A Superior Court justice gutted the federal prostitution law in Ontario on Tuesday, allowing sex-trade workers to solicit customers openly and paving the way for judges in other provinces to follow suit, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept. 29: Justice Susan Himel struck down all three Criminal Code provisions that had been challenged – communicating […]