Gwethalyn Graham (1913-65): A Liberated Woman in a Conventional Age

Barbara Meadowcroft will give a talk on Gwethalyn Graham (1913-65): A Liberated Woman in a Conventional Age

Place:  Westmount Library

4574 Sherbooke St West

Time:   Wednesday February 25

7:00 pm

Gwethalyn Graham was a passionate, socially engaged, and seriously underrated Canadian writer. Her masterpiece Earth and  High Heaven is a romance between a Protestant girl and a Jewish man, which subtly reveals the anti-Semitism in war time Montreal. It was an unexpected bestseller in 1944 and was reprinted to great acclaim in 2005. Gwethalyn, who spent her life fighting for tolerance and racial equality, was passionate about Montreal, her adopted city, and the rights of the Québécois.

Barbara Meadowcroft holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from McGill University. Since 1988 she has been a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia. University. She is the author of Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters (1999).

Simone de Beauvoir Institute’s Seminar

Friday, March 13th 2009

1 p.m.

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute

Concordia University

MU-101

2170 Bishop st. (metro Guy)

Dolores Chew

“Feminism and Multiculturalism in Quebec – an/Other perspective”

Dolores Chew is an historian and teacher. She is a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Chair of the Liberal & Creative Arts Department, Marianopolis College , and a founding member of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre (SAWCC) in Montréal. She will narrate lessons learned from experiences of organizing and the struggle to claim space, legitimacy and challenge dominant constructs of multiculturalism.

FILM SCREENING_ Women in Eastern Europe_3 p.m._02.11.009

For more information:

About the film

Yasmine Amor

514-848-2424 x 2373

y_amor (at) alcor (dot) concordia (dot) ca

Feminist Resistance to Israeli Apartheid: the Legacy of Lillian Robinson

We would like to thank the panelists, the organizers and the public for the amazing event we had at the Atwater Library !!!

The Fifth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week March 1-8 2009

Mark your calendars – the 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week will take place across the globe and especially near you  from March 1-8, 2009!

First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more than 25 cities around the world participated in the week’s activities, which also commemorated 60 years since the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homes and land in 1947-1948. IAW 2008 was launched with a live broadcast from the South African township of Soweto by Palestinian leader and former member of the Israeli Knesset, Azmi Bishara.

This year, IAW occurs in the wake of Israel’s barbaric assault against the people of Gaza. Lectures, films, and actions will make the point that these latest massacres further confirm the true nature of Israeli Apartheid. IAW 2009 will continue to build and strengthen the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at a global level.

Speakers and full programme available soon.

Black History Month at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute

Blacks in Montreal 1628 – 1986: An Urban Demography was the first demography to explore Montreal’s Black diversity. This work reveals the 400 years of black mobility across the island of Montreal. It examines the impact of Canadian discrimination, skewed immigration, job market segmentation, and housing exclusion, which fueled the socio-economic disadvantage that continues to reverberate through-out Quebec society. In 2006,  Dorothy Williams established Blacbiblio.com, specifically to create a comprehensive on-line bibliography record of the historical presence of Blacks in Canada.

For more information on the event contact: Yasmine Amor, events Coordinator, 514-848-2424 x 2373

y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

WSDB 398K – FREE Film Screening

Mark your Calendars – Two movies will be  screened  as part of the Eastern Women class in the Women’s Studies program at Concordia University. Concordia Students will have the opportunity to attend the two following movies:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Marble Man

For more information contact:

Yasmine Amor

Events Coordinator, 514-848-2424 x 2373

y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca