The Centre for Feminist Research/ Le centre de recherches féministes promotes feminist activities and collaborative research at York University and works to establish research linkages between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities. Feminist research is conceived of in broad terms, as being concerned with issues of women, gender, class, ‘race’, sexuality, ability and feminism.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Summer Institute in Sexuality Studies (SISS) 2017
Summer Institute in Sexuality Studies (SISS) 2017: Perversion at the Crossroads of Critical Race Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Queer Theory Public Events Schedule, June 5-9, 2017
- June 5th: Pedagogy and The Perverse In Toni Morrison’s 'God Help The Child' - Public Lecture by Dr. Aparna Mishra Tarc
- June 6th: Race as Kink: Reading Transracial Fetishism - Public Lecture by Dr. Trish Salah
- June 7th: Roundtable - Performing Perversion - Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser & Dr. Trish Salah in conversation with Dr. John Greyson, Dr. Sheila Cavanagh and Emelie Chhangur
- June 7th: Carrie Mae Weems and the Question of Brown Jouissance - Public Lecture by Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser
- June 8th: Race as Relation - Public Lecture by Dr. David L. Eng
- June 9th: Roundtable - Thinking Perversion Transnationally - Dr. David Eng & Dr. Aparna Mishra Tarc in conversation with Dr. David Murray and Dr. David Seitz
RECENT EVENTS
CFR Events
- Women in Sudan: Negotiating Power on the Margins: Talk with Dr. Asha El-Karib, October 5, 2016
- CFR Meet n Greet and Graduate Caucus meeting, October 19, 2016
- “Mom and Me” Film screening and discussion with Director Lena McDonald, October 25, 2016
- Scholarship & Cultural Production: A Workshop on the Intersection of Academic Research and Documentary Film Practices, November 9, 2016
- Contesting Neoliberalism, Relinquishing Respectability: “Working Families,” Wisconsin, and What’s Left with Dr. David K. Seitz, March 1, 2017
- Deleuze & Guattari, Feminism and Queer Theory: An Introductory Workshop with Dr. reese simpkins, March 7, 2017
- Queer Ethnography?: Theory, Practice And Ethics Graduate Student Workshop with Drs. Dai Kojima & David K Seitz, March 21, 2017
- Gender Differences in Unpaid Work, Paid Work And Discretionary Time In Turkey with Dr. Burca Kizilirmak, March 27, 2017
- DigiQueer Cinema Talk and screening with filmmaker Dr. Kami Chisholm, March 29, 2017
- CFR Trans Studies Conference Preliminary Meet and Greet, April 12, 2017
- CERLAC co-sponsored Fulbright Specialist Lecture by Dr. Ricia Chansky: Texts in Crisis: Esmeralda Santiago, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the Case for Rereading Identity, May 24, 2017
CFR Co-Sponsored
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Letter writing campaign - protest violence against gay Chechen men, May 11
- Outside the Lines: An art exhibition exploring the blurring genres of gender, body, disability and racialization, May 15-19, 2017
CFR Co-Organized
- International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of the Americas 2017 conference Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar", May 15-17, 2017
CFR Co-Sponsored
- GIRL POSITIVE book launch with authors Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel, October 3, 2016
- Women and the Challenge of a Socialist Jewish Voice to the Canadian State; Ester Reiter’s “A Future Without Hate or Need” Book launch, October 20, 2016
- Transnational Filipinx Studies Workshop, November 14, 2016
- New Frontiers 2017 Graduate History Conference, February 23-25, 2017
Migrant Exclusion - The Case of Domestic Workers, March 3, 2017 - Empowering Women and Girls in Mining Communities in Mozambique, March 20, 2017
- Forty Years of LGBTQ+ History Collection Launch, April 23, 2017, at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
OTHER CFR ACTIVITIES
- Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights event: Courting Change: Caleb & Belize’s Anti-Sodomy Law, November 17, 2016
- The 2015-16 CFR Annual Newsletter is available here: Click to View
- Meet our 2016-17 Visiting Scholars! Click to View
- See Prof. Rusty Shteir's Timeline of Women's Studies History at York. Click to View