Poet Margaret Christakos visits Concordia, Monday Oct. 20

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute presents

Margaret Christakos

reading from her new collection of poetry, What Stirs

Monday, October 20^th, 2008

12:30-1:30pm

@ The Simone de Beauvoir Institute

2170 Rue Bishop, MU101

Followed by discussion, Q&A.

Books available for purchase & signing.

Info: (514)848-2373 or y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

Following on her collections Excessive Love Prostheses and Sooner, Margaret Christakos looks at our primal appetite for attachment through the modern norms of codependency and coexistence, taking for granted the postmodern digital era where the tenderness of the individual are both exposed and masqueraded by the brazen and wary stirrings of virtual identity. Often playful but never trifling, Christakos accretes the ecstatic trajectories of lyric poetry, the mundane and intimate extremes of maternal subjectivity, and an abiding curiosity with procedural poetic composition into a wakeful field of linguistic, sensual and acoustic effects.

Author Farzana Doctor visits Montreal

Toronto based author and social worker, Farzana Doctor, will be coming to the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, on Friday, November 7, 2008, 7pm. Doctor will be reading from her critically acclaimed novel, “Stealing Nasreen”. A discussion will follow. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

The story focuses on an Indo-Canadian lesbian therapist who becomes entangled in the lives of an underemployed new immigrant couple from India.

“There was a growing awareness of issues relating to underemployed immigrants,” says Doctor about the inspiration behind the book. “I was also really interested in writing immigrant and queer characters because I feel that there aren’t enough novels on this topic.”

For more information, please call the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, at (514) 848-2373 or email: y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca.

The event is organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and co-sponsored by the Concordia Coop Bookstore, the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and the South Asian Women’s Community Centre.

For more information about the author, visit www.farzanadoctor.com

WHEN: Friday November 7^th, 7:00-8:30pm

WHERE: 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, 2110 Rue Mackay, Montreal

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Contact:

Yasmine Amor

Events Coordinator/Coordinatrice des événements,

Simone de Beauvoir Institute

(514)848-2373

y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

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Visible and Invisible Images Around Franz Kafka’s Last Work

Visible and Invisible Images Around Franz Kafka’s Last Work

Dr. Karin Doerr

Department of Classics, Modern Languages & Linguistics

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

6:30 pm

Concordia University

Liberal Arts College

2040 Mackay St S-RR-02

Loyola International College, co-hosted by the Liberal Arts College, the Departments of History and Classics, Modern Languages & Linguistics, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Canada Research Chair for German and European Studies, Université de Montréal

For more information, please contact Loyola International College:

loyolaic@alcor.concordia.ca

“Embodying race gender in anti-war solidarity activism abroad”

The 2008-2009 Simone de Beauvoir Institute Research Seminar Series is pleased to present:

Gada Mahrouse PhD, Assistant Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute

“Embodying race & gender in anti-war solidarity activism abroad”

Wednesday, October 8th 2008

2179 Bishop MU101 1:00-3:00 pm

Gada Mahrouse joined the SDB in January 2008 at the SdB. She teaches courses on feminisms, race, and postcolonialisms. She has published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, the Canadian Journal of Education, & Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

Her lecture will touch on activists from the “First world” who are increasingly travelling to conflict zones to protest war and occupation and to offer protection to people who are living in conditions of violence. But how do these activists negotiate asymmetrical racialized power differences in their interventions? Furthermore, how does gender play out in these transnational solidarity contexts? This paper explores these questions by analyzing interviews with activists alongside anti-racist and feminist theory. In exploring some tensions and ambiguities that the activists face at a day-to-day level, this paper reveals some of the complexities that arise in certain political activist strategies and offers insights into the ways transnational activism is embedded in hegemonic relationships of power.

This event is FREE and open to the general public.

For further information please contact:

(514) 848-2424 ext. 2373

Y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute Research  Seminar Series is
Organized by Michiko Aramaki PhD and Karin Doerr PhD and both affiliated with The Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Concordia University.