Events Archives
March 8: International Women's Day: Expert Panel and Dialogue: Feminism: the other "F" Word. One of the panellists is Dominique Bourque, Institute of Women's Studies and Department of Français, University of Ottawa.
March 3: 2010 Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women's Studies, Decolonizing Social Justice: The Anti-Violence Movement and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex with guest speaker Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside.
February 11: Feminist Café - Fugitives, Surveillance and the Books of Negroes with guest speaker Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin.
February 9: Investigating Power in the Anglophone Caribbean Middle Class: Ideologies and Love as Power with guest speaker Andrea N. Baldwin, PhD Candidate, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies, Barbados.
January 26: A Literary Reading by Priscila Uppal, poet, novelist and professor at York University. This event was sponsored by the Joint Chair in Women's Studies (University of Ottawa and Carleton University) and the Department of English (University of Ottawa).
January 21: Feminist Café - Vues, mais non entendues : les adolescentes québécoises francophones et l'hypersexualisation de la mode et des médias, with guest speaker Caroline Caron, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Women's Studies.(Event in French only)
January 14: Feminist Café - Bombshells, Criminals, Mothers, and More: Examining Brazilian Gender Ideologies in the Context of Canadian Migration Studies, with guest speaker Katherine Brasch, Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies.
December 7 : Careers in Women's Studies. Panellists: Kate McInturff, Geneviève Sauvé, Kaoutar Kaddouri, Lise Martin.
November 18, 2009: Feminist Café - La cour suprême et la Charte canadienne : un danger pour la santé ?, with guest speaker Martha Jackman. (Event in French only, a bilingual question period will follow).
November 4, 2009: Feminist Café - The Politics of Double Dutch as Sport, Race, Gender, and Nation with guest speaker C.L. Cole (co-authored with Sarah Projansky).
October 21, 2009: Feminist Café - Crime is a Theory, with guest speaker Kim Pate.
October 19, 2009: The Joint Chair in Women's Studies of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University presents: Women’s Rights on the Political Agenda. Program.
May 11, 2009 - Conference
Title of presentation: "Resisting, Defending, Surviving: Women's Post-rape Narratives"
Guest speaker: Jan Jordan, PhD
Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
The event was organized by Holly Johnson (Department of Criminology) and co-sponsored by the Institute for the Prevention of Crimes and the Institute of Women's Studies.
April 16, 2009 - Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Title of presentation: "Incomes and Expenditures of Single Female and Male House Heads: Experiences fromm Singida District in Tanzania"
Guest speaker: Grace Khwaya Puja, PhD
Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization (IDRC/Carleton University/University of Ottawa) and
Senior Lecturer and Acting Acting Head of Department of Education of the recently established Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of RUCO.
April 3, 2009 - Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women's Studies
Title of presentation: Femmes du Monde
Guest Speaker: Céline Galipeau
Organized by Dominique Bourque (Institute of Women's Studies/Department of Français).
April 2, 2009 - Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Title of presentation: "Informal Influences in Selecting Female Political Candidates"
Guest speaker: Christine Cheng and Margit Tavits
This event was co-organized with the Institute of Canadian Studies.
March 27-29, 2009 - Feminist Perspectives on International Human Rights in Canada
Organized by the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights and sponsored by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Ottawa Human
Rights Research and Education Centre, Shirley E. Greenberg Chair for Women and the
Legal Profession, Carleton University Human Rights Program, University of Ottawa Institute of Women’s Studies, and Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action.
March 23, 2009 - Feminist Café
Title of presentation: The Intersection of the AIDS Pandemic and the Place of Women in Africa
Guest Speaker: K'yokusinga Kirunga,
Field representative for the Stephen Lewis Foundation
Organized by Kathryn Trevenen (Institute of Women's Studies/School of Political Studies).
March 16, 2009 - Feminist Café
Title of presentation: Modern and Contemporary Feminist Art
Guest Speaker: Megan Hinton,
Artist
Organized by Kathryn Trevenen (Institute of Women's Studies/School of Political Studies) and co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa Women's Resource Centre.
March 2, 2009 - Histories of Slavery
Panellists: Speaker: Marie-Célie Agnant, Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Barrington Walker, M. Nourbese Philip
Organized by Christabelle Sethna (Institute of Women's Studies/Health Sciences), Dominique Bourque (Institute of Women's Studies/Department of Français), and with the help of several student volunteers. This event was sponsored by: Office of the Vice-President (Research), Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, Institute of Canadian Studies, African Study and Research Laboratory, French Department, Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) and Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG).
February 24, 2009 - Feminist Café
Title of presentation: Zimbabwe's Girl Child Network: Empowering Girls at the Grassroots
Guest Speaker: Betty Makoni,
Zimbabwean Human Rights Activist and Founder of the Girl Child Network
Organized by Kathryn Trevenen (Institute of Women's Studies/School of Political Studies). This event was sponsored by: The Centre Project POWER (Progress and Opportunities for Women's Equality Rights): Africa/Canada, Director Joanne St. Lewis, the Stephen Lewis Foundation and the Women's Resource Centre.
October 16, 2008 - Launch of the new Master's and Ph.D. programs in Women's Studies
April 11, 2008 - Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women's Studies
Title of presentation: Three Shots Heard ‘Round the World: HPV Vaccines and the Politics of Women’s Health
Guest Speaker: Abby Lippman, PhD
Organized by Denise Spitzer, incumbent of the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health, Institute of Women's Studies and Institute of Population Health.
April 4, 2008 - Feminist Café fundraiser
Grandmothers and Grandothers: Breaking the Barriers of HIV/AIDS
Variety Show and Art Exhibition/Sale to benefit the Stephen Lewis Foundation "Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign"
Organized by the Feminist Café (Institute of Women's Studies), the Women's Resource Centre and the Women's Studies Student Association and held at the Helsinki Lounge & Disco.
March 6, 2008 - Feminist Café
Film and Discussion: Women in Afghanistan
Film showing of Return to Kandahar and discussion led by Kathryn Trevenen (Institute of Women's Studies/School of Political Studies) on the themes of the film.
February 29, 2008 - Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Title of presentation: "Mondialisation et inégalités de genre chez les populations des Etats membres de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UÉMOA)"
Guest speaker: Marie Suzanne Badji, PhD
Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization (CIDA/IDRC/University of Ottawa/Carleton University)
Faculty/Scholar with the Département d'Économie de la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
February 14, 2008 - Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Title of presentation: Gender, Research, and Careers
Guest speaker: Maryanne Dever, PhD
Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies
Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
November 8, 2007 - Bilingual Conference
Title of conference: Women, Religion and Development
Organized by the Joint (University of Ottawa/Carleton University) Chair in Women’s Studies, the Institute of Women’s Studies (University of Ottawa) and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies (Carleton University).
November 1st, 2007 - Feminist Café 2007
Title of workshop: Exploring restorative practice as a community response to gendered violence
Guest speaker : Robin Macdonald
Organized by Kathryn Trevenen (Institute of Women's Studies/School of Political Studies).
October 26, 2007 – Open House of the Institute of Women’s Studies
The IWS welcomed Dr. Marie Suzanne Badji (CIDA-IDRC-University of Ottawa-Carleton University Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization), Dr. Katherine Mohindra (Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies) and Dr. Rajkumari Shanker (incumbent of the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa and Carleton University).
September 20, 2007 – Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Title of the presentation: Toward the Rise of Women in the Arab World
Guest speaker: Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, PhD
Organized by the Joint (University of Ottawa/Carleton University) Chair in Women’s Studies, the Institute of Women’s Studies (University of Ottawa) and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies (Carleton University).