Past Research Projects
"Worked to Death": Gendered-Racialized Dimensions of Economic Security for Later Life Canadians
Project Dates: March 2010- March 2012
Principle Investigator: Nancy Mandell (York University)
Co-Applicants: Ann Kim (York University), Meg Luxton (York University), Valerie Preston (York University)
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Negotiating Sexualities: A Study of Youth and Development in Guyana
Project Dates: 2010-12
Principle Investigator: Linda Peake (York University)
Participants: Karen De Souza (Red Thread Research Team, Guyana)
Funder: SSHRC
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Rethinking Feminist Interventions in Urban Studies
Principle Investigator: Linda Peake (York University)
Granting Agency: SSHRC
Funder: SSHRC
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Sharing Our Legacy: Indigenous-African Relations Across the Americas
Project Dates: 29 April 2011 – 1 May 2011
Principle Investigator: Bonita Lawrence
Conference Planning Team: Enakshi Dua (York University), Vermonja Alston (York University), Beenash Jafri (York University), Zahir Kolia (York University), Kimberly Palmer (York University), Leah Stewart (York University)
Funder: SSHRC
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Memory and Memorialization
Project Dates: April – March 2010
Principle Investigator: Alison Crosby (York)
Participants: Dr Malathi de Alwis (University of Colombo)
Funder: IDRC
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Sharing Feminist Research on Social Policies and Collective Action/Partager la recherche féministe sur les politiques sociales et l’action collective
Project Dates: 29 April 2010 – 30 April 2010
Principle Investigator: Jacinthe Michaud (York University)
Co-Applicants: Barbara Cameron (York University) and Leah Vosko (York University)
Funder: SAIC, CIHR
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U50 Lecture Series, Feminism and the Academy
Project Dates: 2009-2010
Organizers: Linda Peake, Meg Luxton, Enakshi Dua
Participants: Margaret Thornton (ANU, Australia), Lorraine Code (York University), Nadje Al – Ali (SOAS, UK), Ann Shteir (York University), Elisabeth Young Bruehl (New York), Chandra Mohanty (Syracuse University)
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Doing Theory: Marxism, Feminism, Critical Race Theory
Date: 11 Dec 2009
Organizers: Enakshi Dua
Speakers: Himani Bannerji, Nahla Abdo, Jasodhara Bagchi, Davina Bhandar, Barbara Godard, Dorothy Smith, David McNally, Shahrzad Mojab, Radhika Mongia, Ananya Mukherjee, Sherene Razack, Sunera Thobani, Judith Whitehead
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Excavations, Collusions, and Contestations: A Symposium on Violence, Memory, and Memorialization
Date: 15 April 2010
Organizers: Enakshi Dua, Alison Crosby, Honor Ford Smith
Speakers: Urvashi Butalia (Zubaan Books), Malathi de Alwis (University of Colombo), Alison Crosby (York University), Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto), Honor Ford-Smith (York University).



