Upcoming & Ongoing CWSE Events
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Dear CWSE Community,
It is with great sadness that we write to let you know that after a short battle with cancer, Roxana Ng, head of the CWSE and faculty member in Adult Ed at OISE, passed away January 12, 2013, surrounded by friends and family.
Roxana requested that donations be made to InterPares in lieu of flowers (www.interpares.ca).
The obituary appeared Wednesday, January 16 in both the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. A further obituary appeared in the Globe and Mail February 13, and the SSSP honoured her here (PDF). Roxana was honoured January 15 in a motion at Toronto City Council. Thank you to Councillors Krystin Wong-Tam and Pam McConnell for this condolence motion. The motion can be read here.
A memorial of Roxana’s life and work will take place on May 28 2013, 5-8pm, at the OISE library, main floor, 252 Bloor St W. Further details TBA.
We are also requesting photographs, stories, and words of tribute for a website that will be constructed in honour of Roxana and her work. If you wish to contribute, please email your photos and stories to jamie.ryckman@utoronto.ca or angelasabrina.lytle@utoronto.ca.
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Jamie Ryckman, Angela Lytle, and Jamie Magnusson
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Check out the new CWSE blog! thecwse.wordpress.com. CWSE staff, students, and associates will be contributing stories, information, research, and events happening around the feminist community.
Pictures and video of our event with Vandana Shiva on November 12, 2012, are up at the cwse blog.
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CWSE June 2013 Institutional Ethnography Workshops
Weekend Workshop, June 14 & 15, 2013: Working with Texts in Institutional Ethnography (Friday evening & full Saturday) $450 CDN + HST (13%)
Weekend Workshop II, June 21 & 22, 2013: Working with Texts in Institutional Ethnography (Friday evening & full Saturday) $450 CDN + HST
Weeklong Workshop II, June 23—28, 2013 $850 CDN + HST, plus $450 + HST for weekend prerequisite
All workshops are co-taught by Dorothy Smith & Susan Turner and are hosted downtown Toronto.
Email cwse@utoronto.ca to request the registration form or with questions.
Spaces in the Weeklong Intensives are very limited and feel quickly, so don't wait to register!
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RFR Call for Papers
Thank you to everyone who emailed RFR inquiring about their call for papers. Through technical problems, the emails sent to them in the last four or so weeks were lost. If you emailed and didn’t receive a response, please resend!
This is an ongoing call for papers for the journal Resources for Feminist Reseach (RFR), one of Canada’s oldest feminist academic journals. See the call below, and author guidelines attached.
You can also check out RFR on Facebook here.
RFR Call for Papers: New Feminist Research
Resources for Feminist Research (RFR/DRF) is a Canadian, peer reviewed, academic journal that publishes research articles from scholars in a variety of disciplinary settings and from a wide range of critical feminist perspectives. We represent an important forum for the dissemination of feminist work both in Canada and internationally.
RFR/DRF is now accepting submissions to our New Feminist Issues. We are looking for contributions that address current issues, approaches and debates within feminist scholarship and politics. We are interested in original and engaging research articles that consider from a variety of feminist perspectives, issues of gender and its connections and interactions with class, culture, race, sexuality, nation and disability. Articles on these and other appropriate topics are welcome submissions to our journal.
RFR/DRF accepts manuscript submissions that are original and not previously published in any format. Submissions under review elsewhere are not accepted.
Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words and should be submitted as a .doc or, .docx document (do not submit as .pdf).
Submit, via email, a cover letter and your full contact information in the body of the email. Attach to email an electronic copy of your manuscript, without any identifying information in it, along with an abstract in a separate document.
Email to:
Editor, RFR/DRF
rfr@utoronto.ca
For further information email us at rfr@utoronto.ca.
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CWSE Call for Submissions
For Brown Bag Lectures
The Brown Bag Lecture series at the CWSE is a semi-formal space to present complete research or work-in-progress for discussion and feedback.
We are looking for a variety of research topics related to women/feminism. We invite students, faculty, and researchers to present work from across the multiple disciplines and standpoints that compose feminism and women’s studies.
Brown Bag Lectures are held on weekday afternoons at OISE, 252 Bloor St W, Toronto, room 2-227, part of the CWSE space.
Guidelines
Please submit a one-page overview of the work you wish to present, as well as a one paragraph summary of your intended presentation and a one-paragraph biography of yourself as related to your work. Please also include your preferred time frame for presentation (possibilities are September—early December, and January— early March). Submit your materials to cwse@utoronto.ca at least one month before your desired presentation date.
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Donations of socks, bras, and underwear needed for Toronto women
We are gathering new and gently-used socks, underwear, and bras for a drop-in centre that provides support for women dealing with drug addictions and inadequate or no housing, many of whom are involved in the sex industry. These are priority items that are hard to come by and are much needed. We are also taking donations of tampons and pads.
Donations can be dropped off at the CWSE: 252 Bloor St W, second floor, room 2-225 (directly above the St George subway station in OISE) between 12-4pm Monday-Thursday, or you can leave a bag hanging on the door. If you are bringing large quantities and can’t come by during regular hours, please email us to arrange drop-off: cwse@utoronto.ca or info@learnwhr.org.
At this time the CWSE is NOT collecting any other clothing or toiletries besides, bras, underwear, socks, and tampons and pads. If you are interested in donating other items, please get in touch with All Saints’ directly (website below).
The All Saint’s Drop-In Centre is thriving because of the efforts of so many people, and we thank you for your continued support. The All Saint’s Drop-In works from a harm reduction and human rights-based framework, and is trans-inclusive. You can find out more about All Saints’ here.
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Are you a women’s human rights defender? Do you want to increase your understanding of women’s human rights, and learn how to use the UN Human Rights system to support your activism?
Join other international activists, scholars, community workers, NGO representatives, lawyers and educators in learning about women’s human rights education and activism at the Women’s Human Rights Education Institute (WHRI) at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Fundación Justicia y Género in Costa Rica.
2013 Six-Week Women’s Human Rights Education Institute:
WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE (WHRI):
BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
May 22 – June 28, 2013
and
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
CEDAW for Change ONE WEEK INSTITUTE
June 3 - 7, 2013
learnwhr.org for details.