Previous Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitors
To date the Visitorship has been awarded to thirteen outstanding feminist leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
1997/1998 Eudine Barriteau
Director of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
LECTURE: "Are Caribbean Women Taking Over? Contradictions for Women in Caribbean Society"
COURSE: "Women Leaders as Catalysts for Change"
Read an Article about Eudine Barriteau here.
1998/1999 Peggy Antrobus
Co founder and past Executive Director of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era)
LECTURE: "Women's Leadership: Catalysts for Change"
COURSE: "Women Organizing Globally from Mexico City to Beijing and Beyond"
Read an Article about Peggy Antrobus here.
1999/2000 Nighat Said Khan
Founding member Women's Action Forum, founding member and current Dean of Studies, Institute of Women's Studies, Lahore
LECTURE: "Women's Human Rights, Women versus the State: Women's Action Forum and the Women's Movement in Pakistan."
COURSE: "Women Versus the State, The Pakistani Women's Movement, Implications for the Global Women's Movement."
Read an Article about Nighat Said Khan here.
2000/2001 Bisi Adelyemi-Fayemi
Past Director of Akina Mama wa Africa and founder and Director of the African Women's Development Fund
LECTURE: "Creating and Sustaining Feminist Space in Africa: Local-Global Challenges in the 21st Century"
COURSE: "Feminist Leadership Development in the African Women's Movement."
Read an Article about Bisi Adelyemi-Fayemi
2001/2002 Moema Vizzier
Founder and past Director of Redeh Mulher de Educação (Women's Education Network) in Brazil and author of Let Me Speak!: Testimony of Domtila, published in 60 editions and translated into 14 languages.
LECTURE: "Transformative Learning for Transformative Leadership: A learning experience with peasant and gatherer women in Brazil."
2002/2003 Rita Thapa
Ashoka Fellow, founder and past Director of TEWA (a Women's Development Fund in Nepal), founder and Director of Nagerik Aawaz (for conflict transformation)
LECTURE: "Feminist Activism in Nepal: TEWA, Doing the Impossible."
COURSE: "The Politics of Development Aid and Women's Global Advancement: Perspectives from Nepal and South Asia."
2003/2004 Alda Facio
Founder and past Director of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court, Director of the Women, Gender and Justice Program of the United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime prevention (ILANUD)
LECTURE: “The Empire Strikes Back: Feminist Strategies for Peace.”
COURSE: “Women's Human Rights and Peacemaking, Feminist Theory and Practice in Latin America and Around the World."
2004/2005 Indai Sajor
Organizer of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery
LECTURE: “Put Wrong on the Scaffold and Truth on the Throne: The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal”
COURSE: “Women, War and Human Rights”
Read an Article about Indai Sajor
2005/2006 Marieme Helie-Lucas
Founder and past director of Women Living Under Muslim Laws:
LECTURE: “Women Living Under Muslim Laws: Struggles Against Fundamentalism in Europe and North America”
2006/2007 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Convenor of the Asian Indigenous Women’s Network, Chair of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
LECTURE: “Indigenous Women and Feminism: Opportunities, Gains and Challenges”
COURSE: “Indigenous Women and Feminism: Opportunities, Gains and Challenges”
Read an Article about Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Watch the full lecture: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz speaks on Indigenous Women and Feminism: Opportunities, Gains and Challenges
2007/2008 Seodi White
National Coordinator of, WLSA-Malawi (Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Educational Trust –Malawi)
LECTURE: “Women’s Rights, HIV/AIDS and the Appropriateness of the Response: Lived Realities from Malawi and Southern Africa.
COURSE: “Women’s Rights and HIV/AIDS in Malawi and Southern Africa: Realities, Successes and Challenges”
Watch the full lecture: Seodi White speaks on Women’s Rights and HIV/AIDS in Malawi and Southern Africa: Realities, Successes and Challenges
2008/2009 Wahu Kaara
Director, Kenyan Debt Relief Network
LECTURE: “Women Power and Politics, Counterplanning for New Lifeworlds, Resistance to Racialized Capitalist Patriarchy”
COURSE: “Grassroots Women’s Struggles and Global Social Justice: Life Histories of Kenyan Women Activists”
Watch the full lecture: Wahu Kaara speaks on Grassroots Women’s Struggles and Global Social Justice: Life Histories of Kenyan Women Activists
2010/2011 Teresa Ulloa Ziaurriz
Director, Coalition Againt Trafficking in Women – Latin American Region
LECTURE: “Prostitution – Abolition or Regulation? Views from Latin American and Global Front Lines."
You can view Teresa's lecture online through the University of Toronto here.
2011/2012 Shanthi Dairiam
Founder and First Executive Director of Women's Human Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific, member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (2005-2008).
LECTURE: “Women's Human Rights: The Promise and the Reality - A World View from Women's Global and Local Organizing”
COURSE: “Women's Human Rights: Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: The Significance of International Human Rights Standards”
Read the course outline here (PDF)
Video recording of Shanthi's public lecture will be available online shortly.
Click here for a review of the lecture on the OISE website, and click here for another review by an attendee of the lecture.
The Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitorship is generously funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Read more about them at www.idrc.ca.