PhD candidate Katherine Fobear in the media
GRSJ PhD candidate Katherine Fobear was recently in the news to do with her and fellow scholar Shayna Plaut’s recently-exhibited refugee mural, Seeking Protection is Not a Crime. Watch the five-minute documentary “We are All Humans”, produced as part of their Painted Stories Project at UBC. More about Katherine’s PhD work: In 1991, Canada was […]
Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry op-ed, Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail today features an op-ed by Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry, ‘Don’t Politicize Women’s Bodies’. It begins: ‘This summer, the European Court of Human Rights upheld France’s burka ban, agreeing that the burka hinders Muslim women from integrating into French society. Several European countries, including Belgium and Switzerland, have also recently banned the niqab […]
Dr. Becki Ross on CBC Radio
Dr. Becki Ross and her long-time collaborator Jamie Lee Hamilton were interviewed by Rick Cluff on The Early Edition, close to the anniversary of the expulsion of sex workers from Vancouver’s West End. They advocate for reparations from the City of Vancouver. Hear the Thursday July 10 show here , with their interview beginning at 2:19.
Op-ed in the Vancouver Sun, co-written by Dr. Becki Ross
An op-ed in the Vancouver Sun co-authored by Dr. Becki Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, ‘Opinion: Sex workers seek apology, reparations: Evicted from the West End 30 years ago, sex workers demand redress’
Published: new Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry article about a recent ‘honour killing’ in Pakistan
From the University of Chicago’s website, a new article from Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry about Farzana Iqbal/Parveen’s murder in Pakistan – Sitting with Farzana: Would She See What We See?.
Dr. Leslie Robertson awarded first Canadian Council of Women Historians Book Prize in Women’s and Gender History
The Canadian Council of Women Historians has awarded Dr. Leslie Robertson (GRSJ Institute & Department of Anthropology) & Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan – Standing Up with Ga*axsta*las the very first CCWH Book Prize in Women’s and Gender History. It is awarded every two years to the best book published in the field in the previous two years, in […]
Op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail
Read Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry’s op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail … and then grab a copy of her newly published book.
Award for GRSJ Associate Professor
Dr. Juanita Sundberg, an Associate Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, has been named the recipient of the 2014 Glenda Laws Award.
Vancouver Sun story: Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry’s new book
We encourage you to read the Vancouver Sun story on Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry’s new book from Oxford University Press. You are welcome to join the book’s official launch: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition.
Film festival sweep for PhD student
PhD student Joshua M. Ferguson of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice has been sweeping the short film festival awards with Whispers of Life.