2008 Events
Discovering Dominga
Thursday January 24, 2008, 6:30-8:30 pm
The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) is pleased to announce a documentary and discussion evening featuring the film: Discovering Dominga.The use of documentaries, such as Discovering Dominga, could be used to teach and learn about history in intermediate/senior level classrooms and to discuss issues such as consequences of collective violence, survivals of genocides, and lost childhoods.
Please come out to this event to enjoy a wonderfully documented and thought-provoking film which will be followed by an informative discussion on the current political situation in Guatemala and the lasting effects of the Rio Negro massacres that took place in 1982.
Where: OISE, Room 2-212. Event is free. Everyone is welcome
Download Optional Study Guide Here.
Dr. Daniel Heath Justice: 'Where are Your Women?' Indigenous Political Traditions and the Intrusions of Euro-Western Patriarchy
Feb. 12, 2008, 6:30pm
The relationship between patriarchy and colonialism in North America is not simply a historical one; it continues to impact the representation and participation of Indigenous women in contemporary politics and scholarship. This presentation will examine gendered politics in both historical and current Indigenous contexts, with an eye toward decolonization and a reaffirmation of Indigenous kinship values.
Dr. Daniel Heath Justice is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and associate professor of Aboriginal literatures at the University of Toronto
Event is Free and all are welcome!
Location: OISE Rm. 5-220.
Beyond Boxes: Revisioning Sexual Health Education
March 29th, 2008
Please join us for CWSE's 'Beyond Boxes: Re-Visioning Sexual Health Education' Conference. This conference will focus on locating the limitations of current sexual health education models and building new, youth focused education and awareness strategies that are based in feminist, anti-racist, queer /trans positive principles.
Participants will attend 5, one hour, interactive sessions, facillitated by leaders in the field. Each session has been specifically tailored to provide valuable information and tools for change of interest to teachers, youth workers, health care workers, and social workers.
"Feminism Goes Pop" The Miss G Project, March 27, 2008
Please join us and hear about the innovative campaign to introduce women and gender studies classes to secondary schools in Ontario. Event is free and all are welcome.
IT'S TIME: African Women Join Hands Against Domestic Violence Documentary Screening with Panel Discussion featuring Mahdere Paulos and Tsidi Kambula.
Join us for a screening of this provocative documentary depicting the desperate plight of women and girls in South Africa and Ethiopia, and the groundbreaking efforts of the women working to change the system.
June 4th 2008, 1pm Rm. 2-198 OISE Free admission, seating is limited
Form more information about the project please visit http://www.itstimeafrica.org/index.html
Women's Human RIghts and Development Workshop Series, featuring Alda Facio: June 26-27, 2008
The Centre for Women's Studies in Education at OISE/UT is proud to host an intensive two day Women's International Human Rights Workshop featuring Alda Facio. Alda Facio is a feminist lawyer, scholar, and activist with decades of experience in both grassroots movements and more formal legal and UN contexts. She is a founder and first director of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court and is currently director of the Women, Gender and Justice Program at the United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention.
This two-day intensive workshop facilitated by Alda Facio presents a unique opportunity for local and international community leaders, development and human rights practitioners and students to come together to further their understanding and reflect upon:
*What it means to apply a rights-based framework in women’s empowerment projects,
programmes and movement work;
*CEDAW and the role of its Optional Protocol;
*Official and shadow reporting, the role of civil society and possible implications for
development organizations and other international NGOs;
*Current organizational gaps and good practices in gender analysis and human rights work.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required by June 24th, 2008
General Registration $160 / OCIC Members $125 / Students/Unwaged $50
Silding Scale Available by Request
Dame Nita Borrow Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Wahu Kaara Presents "Women Power and Politics: Counterplanning for New Lifeworlds, Resitance to a Racialized Market Patriarchy"
Wednesday, NOVEMBER 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m., George Ignatieff Theatre (flyer), Reception to follow at Seely Hall, Trinity College
Wahu Kaara is a long-time political activist and leader who brings a range of feminist analyses and alternative women- and justice-centred perspectives to her work. She ran for parliament in Kenya in 2002 and 2007 and was a delegate to the country’s Constitutional Conference, which in 2004 completed drafting a new national constitution whose deeply democratic proposals were rejected by the government. She has served as Director of the Kenyan Debt Relief Network, Chair of the Steering Committee of the East African Coalition on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights, Co-ordinator of the debt campaign of the African Women’s Economic Policy Network and Member of the Steering Committee of the World Social Forum, which was hosted in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007.
Presented through a generous grant from the IDRC.
Potluck Party & Launch: Feminist editor and poet, Ayanna Black
Nov 28 2008 at 5.30pm, Centre for Women's Studies at OISE 252 Bloor Street W. Rm 2-227
Let's Celebrate: Potluck Party & Launch!
Feminist editor and poet, Ayanna Black - Her literary work and especially her new book Invoking the Spirits
Books will be available for purchase.
If you would like to contribute to the potluck (or in any other way) please contact the CWSE at 978-2080 & let us know.
Kaarina Kailo: Wo(men) and Bears: The gifts of nature, culture and gender revisited
November 25, 2008 6-8pm, Peace Lounge, 7th Floor, OISE 252 Bloor St. West
Please join The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, The Indigenous Education Network and Inanna Publications as we celebrate the publication of
Wo(men) and Bears: The gifts of nature, culture and gender revisited
Edited by Kaarina Kailo.
The book launch is preceded by a lecture by Dr. Kaarina Kailo, Oulu University, Finland, called ECOMYTHOLOGIES IN THE SERVICE OF A MORE ECOLOGICALLY AND SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE FUTURE”. She addresses the need for alternatives to the heroic and androcentric white mythologies given the pressures of the global climate change, the financial downturn and the serious species- and nature-related crises. Kaarina Kailo brings attention with her international anthology to the fact that we need to replace the master narratives with Indigenous and alternative narratives of regeneration, life-oriented values promoting an ethic of care and ecosocial responsibility. The narratives of women marrying bears are the shared ecospiritual mothertongue of numerous Native and non-Native peoples in the North for all their differences. They even suggest the existence of a Bear Religion preceding patriarchal religions and offer traces of a worldview that was relatively gender-balanced, even matricentric in parts of the world, and based on a greater interspecies interconnectedness than is the case with the neo-conservative epitome of capitalist patriarchy.
Gender Equity in Mexican Higher Education: A Case Study
Presented by Karla Kral, Ph.D.(Universidad de Colima, Facultad de Pedagogía)
November 25, 2008 12pm-1:30pm, Rm. 2-227, OISE (252 Bloor St. W)
Brown Bag Lecture presented by the CWSE and RFR:
Discussion will focus on a case study of the University of Colima, a small, public university in central-western Mexico in order to foreground issues of women’s access to higher education, enrollment patterns, status of women faculty and administrators, and recommendations for promoting
gender equity. This presentation is based on the recently published book, En busca de la equidad de género en la Universidad. Un estudio de caso. Colima, Mexico: Universidad de Colima, 2008. (In Search of Gender Equity in the University. A Case Study)
Arts for All: Presented in Partnership with Jumblies Studio
Time and Location: 10am-6pm, 5-250/7-192 OISE
Cost: $250, limited spaces.
Arts4All Essentials is an intensive course on the principles, practices and underpinnings of Jumblies Theatre and ‘community arts’. Everything (or many things!) you need to know to launch your own project, and also a preludefor Jumblies interns and practicum students.
For full program information, contact Jumblies Theatre info@jumbliestheatre.org
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo: What Happens When A Community Worker Goes to Art School?
Friday, Dec 12 2008: 12-1pm, Rm 2-227 OISE
Artist talk and slide presentation will share how a mature student with no
previous arts education has navigated institutional learning, coped with a
lack of cultural representation, found mentors/elders/guides, and strives
to create work that honours memory, history and the struggle for justice.
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo has been a frontline community worker with diverse
groups including immigrant women, queer youth, consumer/survivors of the
mental health system, and migrant domestic workers. She is currently
studying photography and audio/video at the Ontario College of Art &
Design. Jo studies Integrated Media at OCAD. Her first video "i am good
inside" received the Mikey/Shmikey Audience Award for Best Short Film or
Video at the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. In 2007,
she received the Mark S. Bonham Scholarship for Queer Studies in Film &
Video and a National Millennium Scholarship. In 2008, Jo was proud to
direct a short play for the Kapisanan Philippine Centre and Carlos Bulosan
Theatre about coming out, fairy godmother drag queens, and remembering how
to breathe.
FREE & All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible. Bring your lunch!