Follow up on Suheir Hammad’s Show

More pictures to come!

June 2009 – RACE conference

The 9th Annual Critical Race Conference
Compassion, Complicity and Conciliation
The Politics, Cultures and Economies of ‘Doing Good’
Montreal, June 5-7 2009
Concordia and McGill Universities
CALL FOR PAPERS
Global political activism, official apologies, charity, advocacy and solidarity campaigns, ‘rescue’ missions, truth
and reconciliation hearings, private philanthropy, ‘humanitarian’ interventions…. The politics, cultures and
economies of doing good seem to have gained a redemptive, sanctioned and empowering status, which has
elevated actions and actors above critical scrutiny. This conference is aimed at interrogating the politics and
practice(s) of ‘doing good’. It asks: What is defined as ‘doing good’ and how is it tied to constructions of
benevolent others? Who is positioned and empowered to ‘do good’? How is ‘doing good’ historically embedded
and what are some of its foreseen and unforeseen consequences? What does an anti-racist and anti-colonial lens
reveal about past and present humanitarian actions and interventions, and how might it inform present and future
practice(s)? What are the relations between humanitarianism and imperialism? How can these relations be
exposed and meaningfully addressed?
We invite panels and papers from scholars, activists, and researchers whose work engages an antiracist, anticolonial
and anti-imperialist framework. We welcome papers in French.
Topics can include, but are not limited to:
• Truth and reconciliation commissions
• The discourses and politics of apologies
• Dynamics and representations of benevolence
• The politics of humanitarianism
• Geopolitics and ethics in the context of empire, colonial relations and histories of citizenship
• NGOs and the politics of ‘doing good’
• Cultural activism, coalitions and collaborations
• Environmental justice vs conservation
• Hierarchies of ‘doing good’
• Reproducing colonial hierarchies through “change agents”
• Racialized and gendered dynamics of compassion
• Cause-related marketing
• Working across lines of power in solidarity/coalitions
• Problematizing Aid (health, medical, food)
• Exaltations of ‘civil society’
• Academic-activist research partnerships and interventions
• Militarization, occupation and humanitarianism
Deadline for abstracts is March 9th, 2009. Please send a 250-500 word abstract with title, keywords and
institutional affiliation to RACE.Montreal [at] gmail [dot] com, or to Gada Mahrouse, Simone de Beauvoir
Institute, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, or Aziz
Choudry, Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish Street, Montreal,
QC, H3A 1Y2.

SUHEIR HAMMAD IN MONTREAL: MONDAY, MARCH 30TH 2009

Award-winning Palestinian American poet and activist Suheir Hammad will be performing in Montreal March 30^th 2009 at 8 p.m. in Club Lambi. Born in Amman, Jordan, in October 1973, Suheir is the daughter of Palestinian refugees. Suheir immigrated to American at the age of five and settled with her family in Brooklyn, NY.

Her publications include the collections “Born Palestinian, Born Black” (1996), “Drops of this Story” (1996), “ZataarDiva” (2006), and, most recently, “Breaking Poems” (2008). Suheir has won numerous awards, including a TONY Award for her performance on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003), the Van Lier Fellowship (1999), the New York Mills Artists’ Residency (1998), the Morris Center for Healing Poetry (1996), and the Audre Lorde Writing Award from Hunter College (1995, 2000). Her work has been included in numerous anthologies such as “Word: On Being a (Woman) Writer” (2004), “The Poetry of Arab Women” (2000), “Post-Gibran: An Anthology of New Arab-American Writing” (2000), and “The Space Between Our Footsteps” (1998).

Reflecting the ethnically diverse community in which was raised, Suheir poetry weaves together the narratives of Native Americans, Arab/ Arab-Americans, Hispanic Americans and African-Americans. In doing so, Suheir redefines identity as a category unbounded by ethnicity, language or descent. Infusing her poetry with hip-hop beats, Hammad deconstructs the structures of patriarchy and oppression that have relegated visible minorities to the margins of the North American socio-cultural sphere.

Her most recent collection, “Breaking Poems,” was published by Cypher Books and can be purchased through its website: http://www.cypherbooks.org/.

Club Lambi is located at 4465 St-Laurent. Doors open at 7 p.m. The performance is free.

Media contacts:

Deborah Guterman (English): mcgillmessa [at] gmail [dot] com

Rachel Berger (English): rberger [at] alcor [dot] concordia [dot] ca

Yasmine Amor (French): y_amor [at] alcor [dot] concordia [dot] ca

Feminist Resistance to Israeli Apartheid

Fabienne Presentey, Meg Leitold, Dolores Chew, Rafeef Ziadeh

Photos: Courtesy of Nahed Mansour

The event FEMINIST RESISTANCE TO ISRAELI APARTHEID : the legacy of Lillian Robinson on Thursday, March 5th  at the Atwater Library was a really powerful panel discussion around the feminist and the palestinian struggle. thanks to Aaron who took the time to record the discussion. you can listen to the Panel and if you would like to hear the questions and the comments that followed the presentations please contact me at  y_amor [at]alcor[dot]concordia[dot]ca and we will upload them for you to listen. Enjoy and thanks again to all the speakers, the organizers, to the public and to the Atwater Library.

Engaging in Trans Theorization with Lucas Cassidy Crawford

Free Polish Film Screening this Friday at the Institute

YVETTE TAYLOR IN MONTREAL: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1st 2009

Please note that the lecture has been postponed for 6 p.m. – Thanks.

In this lecture, Yvette Taylor will draw upon two research projects Working-class Lesbian Lives: Classes Outsiders, Taylor 2007 and Lesbian and Gay Parents: Securing Social and Educational Capital, Taylor, 2009 to highlight the ways that sexual lives and experiences inevitably intersect with class (dis)advantages.

While much has been written of the dangers of ignoring class in researching and theorizing sexuality, it remains somewhat sidelined and absent in contemporary work on sexualities, having weighty consequences for the understandings and knowledge produced. The academy tends to reproduce a middle-class LGBT experience as universal, negating the ‘queerness’ of working class experience.

Yvette Taylor is a lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University,

UK. Her publications include Taylor, Y. (2007) Working-class lesbian life: Classed Outsiders. Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor, Y. (2009) Lesbian and Gay Parenting: securing Social and Educational Capital. Palgrave Macmillan and Taylor, Y. (2008) “That’s not really my scene: working-class lesbians in (and out of) place” sexualities11 (5), 523-546. She is currently working on an edited collection (2010) Our Working-Class Lives. Ashgate, and an ESRC funded project “From the Coal Face to the car Park: Intersections of class and gender” (2007-2009).

For more information contact Yasmine Amor :  y_amor[at]alcor[dot]concordia[dot]ca

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

Femmes Tunisiennes et inégalité devant le remariage – Adel Ghannay

Adel Ghannay enseigne la démographie à la Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis. Il a conduit des recherches sur le genre et le vieillissement de la population en Tunisie. Il a également participé à l’étude des rapports économiques dans le couple tunisien. Tout en portant un regard attentif à l’analyse démographique; Adel Ghannay inclut dans ses études le point de vue musulman.

Sa présentation “Femmes Tunisiennes et inégalité devant le remariage” est supportée par l’Institut Simone de Beauvoir dans le cadre du programme de bourses de Lillian Robinson. Ghannay tente de répondre à la simple, mais importante question : Pourquoi les femmes tunisiennes, contrairement aux hommes ne se remarient pas? Se basant sur des données démographiques Ghannay tente de comprendre le processus décisionnel dans le contexte culturel contemporain.

Il y aura une période de questions qui suivra.

Quand: Mercredi 28 janvier,

Heure : 16 h 00 – 18 h 00

Où : Institut Simone de Beauvoir, MU101

2170, rue Bishop

Entrée Libre

La présentation se fera en Français

Pour plus d’informarion contactez:

Yasmine Amor, Coordonnatrice des événements,

Institut Simone de Beauvoi,Université Concordia

514 848-2424, poste 2373 y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

Film Screening: Alley of the Tranny Boys

Film screening at Concordia University

organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and the 2110 Centre

Where: in the Hall Building (1550 de Maisonneuve W) in room H-439

When: January 28th at  8:30 PM

Alley is a groundbreaking film directed by Christopher Lee, which re-imagines sexual liberation for today’s outlaws, claiming an erotic space for FTMs. This film presents six provocative scenes that celebrate trans sexuality and eroticism.

Followed by a Q & A

FREE

A Feminist Response to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission

Last November 28th one of our associate professor Gada Mahrouse was part of the Feminist Response to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission organized by the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. The daylong symposium was held in the Leacock Building in the Room 232,, 855 Sherbrooke St. W., McGill University campus.

Panelists include:

Alia Al-Saji, McGill University;

Nancy Burrows, Fédération des femmes du Québec;

Emilie Connolly and Robyn Maynard, Accommodate This!;

Samaa Elibyari, Canadian Council of Muslim Women;

Louise Langevin, Université Laval;

Gada Mahrouse, Concordia University;

Tess Tesalona, Immigrant Workers Center;

and Daniel Weinstock, Université de Montréal.

CKUT news department generously recorded the symposium and you can hear the presentations here

Libre-Opinion – Les défis actuels de la prévention du VIH

Voici un article sur la prévention du VIH écrit par Viviane Namaste, Professeure agrégée à l’Institut Simone de Beauvoir de l’Université Concordia publié dans Le Devoir en Sptembre 2008.

http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/09/09/204578.html

Winter Orientation: 5 à 7 Wine & Cheese

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute and WSSA present..

Winter Orientation: 5 à 7 Wine & Cheese

Please join us on Wednesday, January 21st for a wine & cheese.  The orientation is an opportunity to meet with other students, faculty and community organizers.
You can also find out more about the Institute, Women’s Studies and various on-campus resources.

When: Wednesday January 21st
Where: 2170 Bishop, MU-101

This event is open to everyone!

Ronit Yarosky: Experiences in Peace Education

Thursday, November 27^th,

10:30 a.m. – 13:00 p.m.

Experiences in Peace Education

A lecture given by

Ronit Yarosky

Ronit Yarosky was born in Canada and raised in Montreal and Israel, Ronit grew up in a ‘typical’ Jewish family. She served in the Israeli military during the first Palestinian uprising (Intifada), and returned to Israel in

2000; just prior to the outbreak of the second uprising, when she became active in the Israeli peace movement locally known as the ‘radical left’. Ronit has a B.A. in political science from Concordia University, an M.A. in political science with a focus on Middle Eastern studies from McGill University, and many years of experience

in programming, fundraising, and the non- profit world. In 2001 she co-founded Women in Black Montreal, and in 2003 she co-founded the Montreal Dialogue Group. She currently works as Fund Development

Officer for Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education.

Simone De Beauvoir Institute MU101

2170 Bishop

FREE

For More Information Contact:

Yasmine Amor

514-848-2424 #2373

y_amor@alcor.concordia.ca

The documentation center of Simone de Beauvoir Institute is selling – as part of a fundraising campaign – a beautiful reusable commemorative bag. Cost $15.00

The documentation center of Simone de Beauvoir Institute is selling – as part of a fundraising campaign – a beautiful reusable commemorative bag. Cost $15.00

Available exclusively at the 30^th Anniversary of the Institute on Nov 21, 2008.
All proceeds will go to the documentation center.

Why a financial campaign?

The documentation center, also called the Reading Room (RR), was created, as part of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute to complement Concordia University’s main libraries with unique documentation on women’s issues worldwide. Although it has suffered from various obstacles (lack of money and space, just to name a few), the Reading Room is still, after 30 years, a recognizable resource for documentation about women and feminism.

Women’s Studies faculty, as well as students from various programs, are avid users of the RR. They all benefit from a range of services and the help of our on-site librarian (Isabelle Lamoureux, MLIS.)

In the near future, it is the hope of the librarian and the Institute members to automate the RR,, which would make our collection user friendly, accessible to more students and, therefore, allow a more productive use of our services.

Thank you in advance for your generous participation.

Kaarina Kailo: Wo(men) and Bears: The gifts of nature, culture and gender revisited.

Loyola International College and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in collaboration with Inanna Press, the Concordia University Bookstore, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Business and Professional Women of Montreal, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

WELCOME YOU

To the book launch of an ecomythological international anthology
Wo(men) and Bears: The gifts of nature, culture and gender revisited. Inanna Press and Education Inc. York University.

Edited by KAARINA KAILO

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

5:00 PM

Room AD-307, Loyola International College

Concordia University, Loyola campus

7141 Sherbrooke Street W., Montreal

There will be food, music and performances

Signing session

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

2:00-4:00 PM

Coop-Bookstore

Recitals by some of the contributors to the anthology and a brief talk by Dr. Kaarina Kailo, Oulu University, Finland, called “Ecomythologies in the service of a more ecologically and socially sustainable future” will precede the book launch. In her talk, Dr. Kailo will address 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 mother tongue 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 epitomy of capitalist patriarchy.

Kaarina Kailo was a former principal and associate professor of Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. She has a Doctorate from the University of Toronto in comparative literature and has held numerous positions in women’s studies. Kailo was the first professor of women’s studies and multiculturalism at Oulu University, Finland. She has published over 70 articles and has edited or co-edited numerous books on issues ranging from gendered violence, ecofeminism, spirituality, Indigenous women’s issues in North America and Finland, to the gift economy and globalization, feminist politics of peace and healing, green postcolonial theory and the literature of Northern women.

Please call to confirm your presence at: 514-848-2424 ext. 2125

Andrea O’Reilly’s Lecture: Rocking the Cradle: Feminism, Motherhood and the possibility of Empowered Mothering

Dr. Andrea O’Reilly from York University, Toronto is the author of the critically acclaimed books Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart and editor of Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering.

Her lecture “Rocking the Cradle: Feminism, Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering” is based on her book published by Demeter Press. Dr. O’Reilly will talk about the oppressive and the empowering dimensions of maternity, as well as the complex relationship between the two, first identified by Adrienne Rich in Of Woman Born, has been the focus of feminist scholarship on motherhood over the last decades. How do we challenge patriarchal motherhood? How do we create feminist mothering? How are the two aims connected? Rocking the Cradle, composed of 12 essays, will explore these questions.

A Q & A will follow and Feminist Mothering and Rocking the Cradle: Feminism, Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering will be available to purchase.

When: Tuesday, December 2nd

Time: 16 h 30 – 18 h 00

Where: Simone de Beauvoir Institute, MU101

2170, Rue Bishop

Free

Barbara’s Book Launch

Thank you all for comming, and thanks Arpi and Karin for the photos!

8 p.m. Film screening at the 2110 centre

Part of the 498Q seminar Transsexual and Transgender culture, The 30^th anniversary celebration events of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and the series of film screenings organized by the 2110 Centre.

Thursday November 13^th,

8:00 p.m. – FREE!

WOUBI CHERI, (1998) 62 min. Directed by Laurent Bocahut & Philip Brooks

WOUBI CHERI is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words.

IMPORTANT: POSTPONE

DATE TBA

ALLEY OF THE TRANNYBOYS, (1998) 50 min. Directed by Christopher Lee

ALLEY OF THE TRANNYBOYS

is a film about five Trans men star in six vignettes that celebrate sexuality and eroticism.

Theatre from the Future invites you to Play!

Theatre From The Future

invites women of Muslim origin, interested academics, and curious participants

to a round table discussion and script workshop for our show Play!

December 6th 2008

Time TBA

at the offices of the Quebec Drama Federation, 460 Ste. Catherine West, Suite 807

Theatre From The Future will be performing our third children’s show in early December and we would like to glean responses to the script from members of the Muslim community. Echoing the story of Azzy Mansour, a Nepean, ON girl who made headlines in 2007, Play! is the story of Kamilah, an eleven year old soccer player who is called off of the field for wearing a hijab. Play! tackles issues of friendship, family, diversity, and not to mention reasonable accomodation.

Participants will be provided with a copy of the script as well as support materials before the round table, and actors will be on hand to perform selections from the show. Our goals are to present our Muslim heroine in a most realistic light, to engage in discussion with members of the Muslim community, and to inform our process with the real experiences of Muslim women and girls.

This discussion will take place in both French and English, the text of the play and support materials, however, are in English.

Participants will receive tea and cookies at the round table, a thank you in the program, and complimentary tickets to the show. A report from the round table will be available early in 2009.

If you are interested in participating, or would like more information, please email theatrefromthefuture@gmail.com, or contact us by phone at (514) 481-2849. Deadline to sign up is Friday, November 14^th, 2008.  Space is limited.

About Play!

Kamilah is eleven and soccer is her only passion. She tries out for and makes the soccer team, and is having the time of her life until the pressures of the media, her strict Muslim father, and her feelings of alienation start to crowd in on her elation. She and her team are headed for the championship game when Kamilah gets called off the field for wearing a hijab! With everyone going on about who’s right and who’s wrong, the kids wonder if the grownups will ever understand that they just want to play soccer.

About From The Future

Theatre From The Future is Montreal’s premier emerging geek theatre, focusing on smart shows for kids and their parents. Veterans of the Centaur Theatre Saturday Morning Children’s Series, From The Future has presented Dice, Yellow, and Play! (the puppet edition), at the series since 2007. Founded by Concordia University Theatre Department graduates, and now Artistic Co-Producers Nanette Soucy and Katharine Childs, >From The Future aims to develop a love of theatre in people of all ages, to root for the underdog, and to tell amazing, fantastic, and epic stories.

Theatre From The Future

invite les femmes musulmane, universitaires intéressé(e)s, et autres participants intrigué(e)s

à contribuer à une conférence en table ronde au sujet de la pièce de theatre, Play!

December 6th 2008

Time TBA

aux bureau de la Fédération Québécoise du Théâtre, 460 Ste. Catherine Ouest, Suite 807

Theatre From The Future présentera notre troisième pièce pour enfants au début de Décembre et nous voulons invités les membres de la communauté musulmane à répondre au texte de la pièce.  Inspiré par l’histoire d’Azzy Mansour, une fille de Nepean, Ontario qui a fameusement participé à un tournoi de soccer à Laval en 2007, Play! raconte l’histoire de Kamilah, une fille de onze ans qui se trouve hors du jeu à cause de son hijab.

Tous les participants recevront un exemplaire du texte et des matériaux pertinent en avance de la table ronde.  Nos comédiennes seront présentes pour nous offrir une prestation de quelques scènes.  Nos buts sont de représenter le personnage de Kamilah et sa famille de façon réaliste, d’écouter aux histoires des femmes musulmanes, et de nous informer sur la vie et l’expérience musulmane féminine au Québec, et au Canada.

Cette conférence sera bilingue (anglais/français); le texte de la pièce est désormais anglais.

Les participants recevront du thé et des biscuits à la table ronde, un remerciement dans notre programme, et des billets complémentaires pour venir voir la pièce.  Un rapport de la discussion sera disponible au début de 2009.

Pour plus d’informations, ou pour participer,  s’il-vous-plait envoyer un courriel à theatrefromthefuture@gmail.com, ou contactez-nous par téléphone au (514) 481-2849.  La date limite pour s’inscrire est le vendredi, 14 novembre, 2008.  Les places sont limités.

À propos de Play!

Kamilah est une fille de onze ans passionnée du soccer. Elle s’amuse bien parmi son équipe, mais les pressions de l’école, les médias, et de son père, commencent à la stresser. Son équipe participe dans le Grand tournoi, mais l’arbitre arrête le match final! Les règles ne permettent pas qu’elle porte son hijab!  Lorsque les adultes partent en peur avec leur réactions, les joueurs se demandent s’ils comprendrons un jour que dans le font, c’est vraiment un jeu d’enfant.

À propos de From The Future

Theatre From The Future de Montréal est le premier théâtre “geek.” Notre troupe tien à la création de théâtre intelligent pour les enfants et leur parents.  Depuis 2007, Nous avons presente trois pièces faisant parti du “Saturday Morning Children’s Series” au Théâtre Centaur, soit Dice, Yellow, et Play! (version marionette).  Fondé par deux diplômés du département de théatre à l’Université Concordia,  Nanette Soucy et Katharine Childs, les co-productrices-artistique de From The Future visent à encourager une passion pour le théâtre dans les gens de toutes générations, et de raconter des histoires fantastique, étonnantes, et épiques.

The Canadian premiere of Dulcinea’s Lament

The D.B. Clarke Theatre presents

A Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. production

The Canadian premiere of

Dulcinea’s Lament

A multidisciplinary creation by Dulcinea Langfelder & Co.

Directed by Alice Ronfard

One week only

Wednesday, November 12 – Wednesday, November 19, 2008

To see an inspiring excerpt of Dulcinea’s Lament please go to:

Ducinea’s Lament on YouTube (the show will be presented in English)

“No, I was not chaste…but I never made anyone pay!” – Dulcinea del Toboso

Montreal, October 2008- The D.B. Clarke Theatre presents Dulcinea Langfelder & Co.’s newest creation, Dulcinea’s Lament. Written and performed by respected actor, singer, dancer Dulcinea Langfelder and directed by the ever-creative Alice Ronfard, this humourous, sensitive and critical look behind the cloak of Cervantes’ muse, Dulcinea del Toboso, will entertain and enlighten. Dulcinea’s Lament recently made its world premiere at the Spiral Hall Theatre in Tokyo. Isabelle Bouvier, Director of the D.B. Clarke Theatre, is honoured to present this exciting new work, “For years the D.B. Clarke Theatre has played an important role in helping make diverse cultural productions available to the Concordia and greater Montreal communities. By presenting Dulcinea’s Lament, we hope to carry on this tradition.”

Join us in this new adventure; an eclectic, eccentric and energetic frolic into past and present human foibles…

Inspired by Don Quixote’s muse, Dulcinea del Toboso, multidisciplinary artist Dulcinea Langfelder takes on Cervantes’ ‘absent heroine’. Using her namesake from the novel, she expresses her vision of religious attitudes, the world and its history. In this multimedia theatre production, you don’t need to have read the book to know intuitively who Dulcinea is. This impressive performance, creatively weaving song, puppetry, spoken word and dance, will spellbind you. Director Alice Ronfard is thrilled to be on board with this latest show, having worked with Dulcinea on some of her earlier productions, “I have always felt passionate about the themes Dulcinea engages in. It was important for me to follow through with her on this particular creation.”

Don Quixote, the best selling book in the world after the Bible, speaks to the quest for righteousness against all odds. Langfelder addresses our divisions in this troubled, ‘post 9/11′ world, “I want the audience to leave the theatre more curious about the world and why we behave the way we do. I want them to feel more confident in themselves and less vulnerable to ‘group think’.” She continues, “I hope that people walk out ready to laugh at human foible rather than stress out over it!”

Directed by the wonderful Alice Ronfard, with the musical wisdom of Philippe Noireault and Danys Levasseur, the video prowess of Yves Labelle, the discerning designing eye of Ana Capellutto, the smoky lighting of Eric Gingras, the puppet and puppetry of Vincent Santes, the crazy choreography and concept of Dulcinea Langfelder, and championed by Honourable Colleagues: Erik Lapierre, Francis La Haye and Jean-François Bernier.

Dulcinea’s Lament – seven shows only

A presentation of the D.B. Clarke Theatre

1455 de Maisonneuve West, Guy metro

Reservations: Admission (514) 790-1245 www.admission.com (for information: 514 848-2424, ext. 4742)

Dates: Wed. 12, Thurs. 13, Fri. 14, Sat. 15, Tues. 18, Wed. 19 November at 8:00pm

Matinee: Sunday, Nov. 16 at 3:00 pm

28$ regular, $24 seniors, $22 students (service charges apply).

Group rates available

www.dulci-langfelder.org

Dulcinea’s Lament is a co-production of the Carlsen Center (Overland Park, KS, USA), and is sponsored in Montreal thanks to the participation of Manulife Financial. Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. acknowledges with thanks the support of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. The company benefited from creative residencies in Montreal at Hexagram, Usine C and la Place des Arts,

and in Bic at le Théâtre du Bic.

Dulcinea Langfelder –Playwright, Dulcinea del Toboso

Born in New York, Dulcinea studied dance for much of her life, then mime with the master, Étienne Decroux, in Paris.  She has studied theatre with Eugenio Barba and Yoshi Oida (long time colleague of Peter Brook). She came to Montreal in 1978 to work with the troupe Omnibus, then briefly with Carbone 14. Enjoying her artistic liberty, Dulcinea works in theatre, cinema, music and musical theatre as choreographer and actress. She founded her company in 1985, and has created full length, multidisciplinary works that have toured extensively in four continents. Vicious Circle (1985), The Lady Next Door (1989), Hockey! O.K.? (1991), Portrait of a Woman with Suitcase (1994) and Victoria (1999) are her major works.  Quand le Vautour Danse (1997) written by Abla Farhoud, was a co-production with Le Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui. Dulcinea has been described as, “Dancer? Sure. Comedienne? Of course. Singer? Accomplished. Mime? Polished. Performance artist? That, too. But they’re all means to an end — a delicate bittersweet kind of enigmatic human theatre that becomes far more than the sum of all its very disparate parts.” (Max Wyman, The Province)

Alice Ronfard – Director

Alice Ronfard’s path has been filled with multiple and diversified experiences. Having directed at least thirty plays, she has successfully explored the worlds of the classical (Molière, Rostand, Marivaux), stock (Schiller, Claudel), contemporary foreign (Gombrowicz, Koltès, Vinaver) and Quebec (Chaurette, Dubois) authors. During the last years, she also directed Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne, which earned her a Masque Award, La Voix humaine by Cocteau, King by Vinaver, Floes by Sébastien Harrison and L’avare by Molière. Alice also directs opera workshops at the University of Montreal. Her next project will be Tristan & Iseult at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. Alice directed Dulcinea’s earlier works, Vicious Circle and The Lady Next Door.

About Dulcinea Langfelder & Co.

Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. exists to create and to perform works that break disciplinary and cultural barriers, in order to communicate on a profound level with a large and varied audience. In order to touch the audience with the content of the work, the form is as varied and unpredictable as the human spirit. In this way, acting, singing and interaction with projected images joins the art of movement. The innovative quality of the work is found in the juxtaposition and the surprising integration of the elements that compose the work. With the ultimate goal of living the powerful communion that is possible between artists and audience in a live performance, laughter and drama, in calculated doses, are always on the program. This company likes to tour, enriching its work by the encounter with people of all cultures and all ages. Dulcinea’s Lament is the company’s seventh work to be created since it was formed in 1985. Based in Montreal, countries that the company has toured to include: Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.

AUTHOR BARBARA MEADOWCROFT EXPLORES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GWETHALYN GRAHAM – A LIBERATED WOMEN IN A CONVENTIONAL AGE

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute, The History Department & Women’s Press Toronto are proud to present

Women’s Press Book Launch & signing session

AUTHOR BARBARA MEADOWCROFT EXPLORES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF

GWETHALYN GRAHAM –

A LIBERATED WOMEN IN A CONVENTIONAL AGE

(Women’s Press, Toronto)

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 at Concordia University. She is the author of Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters (Véhicule Press, 1999).

When: Thursday, November 13th

5:00pm – 7:00pm

BOOK LAUNCH & NETWORKING

Where: Atrium in the Library Building 10^th Floor

Department of History

1400 Maisonneuve W

A light lunch will be served

FREE

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Contact:

For additional Information please contact:

Yasmine Amor

Events Coordinator/Coordonnatrice des événements,

(514)848-2424 x2373

Trish Salah @ A Symposium In Honour of Barbara Godard

Trish Salah is a Montreal-based writer and a teacher at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and in the Department of Sociology at Bishops’.

She writes poetry, fiction, and criticism and her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including most recently, Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Source Book, and the online journal Drunken Boat. Recent performance credits include Le Mois de la Performance, GenderCrash, The Scream in High Park: Her Poetics, Cabaret In Transit and Poets Against the War. Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, was published by TSAR Books in 2002 and she has writing forthcoming in Atlantis and in Canadian Theatre Review.

INSPIRING COLLABORATIONS

A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOUR OF BARBARA GODARD

Toronto

December 5-6, 2008

Pia Bouman School

(6 Noble Street — Queen and Dufferin, West of the Gladstone Hotel)

This symposium celebrates Barbara Godard’s long career as a theorist, teacher, mentor and activist.

Poets, artists and academics will convene for a day and a half of readings, screenings and roundtables to discuss Barbara Godard’s extensive influence on generations of writers, artists and scholars in Canada.

The event culminates in the launch of the long awaited Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture. Essays by Barbara Godard.

Keynote Speakers: Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt

A full schedule of the event, plus a map and a virtual guestbook, is available at http://www.yorku.ca/godard/

For the Symposium Committee,

Elena Basile

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INSPIRING COLLABORATIONS. A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOUR OF BARBARA GODARD

SCHEDULE

Friday, December 5

6:30 pm (Main Theatre)

Welcome by Julia Creet (Chair, Department of English, York University)

6:45 pm (Main Theatre)

Concert by The Barbara Godard Music Ensemble

7 pm (Main Theatre)

Keynote Address

Introduction by Smaro Kamboureli (Transcanada Institute, University of Guelph)

Speakers: Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt

8: 30 pm (Main Theatre)

Performance by Penn Kemp

9:00 pm (Lobby)

Reception

Visual Art curated by Cheryl Sourkes

Saturday, December 6

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 am (Main Theatre)

Film Screening of NFB film: Mademoiselle Barbara, Introduced by Zoe Druick (SFU)

9:45-10:30 (Main Theatre)

Poetry Reading

Mary Di Michele, Trish Salah, Di Brandt

10:30 – 12:30 (Main Theatre)

Tessera between Languages and Generations.A Roundtable with members of Tessera’s editorial collectives.

Chair: Elena Basile. Participants: Katherine Binhammer, Louise Cotnoir, Lauren Gillingham, Jennifer Henderson, Susan Knutson, Daphne Marlatt, Kathy Mezei, Lianne Moyes, Julie Murray, Gail Scott, Patricia Seaman, Cheryl Sourkes.

12:30 -2:00 pm Lunch Break

2:15 – 3:00 (Main Theatre)

Poetry Reading

Louise Cotnoir, Nathalie Stephens, Lola Tostevin

3:00 – 5:00 (Main Theatre)

Academic Generations

A roundtable with past and present students of Barbara Godard.

Chair: Kate Eichhorn (New School). Participants: Marielle Aylen (UWO), Julia Emberley (UWO), Eva Karpinsky (York), Brenda Longfellow (York), Sophie McCall (SFU), Astrida Nemanis (York), Jeremy Stolow (Concordia).

5:00 – 5:45 (Main Theatre)

Poetry Reading

NourbeSe Philip, Margaret Christakos, Gail Scott

5:45 (Main Theatre)

Closing Remarks by Ray Ellenwood (York)

6:00 – 7:00pm Dinner Break

7:30 pm

Book Launch

Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture: Selected Essays by Barbara Godard. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli, NeWest Press, 2008.

NICOLE BROSSARD and KAREN HOULE READING @ PARAGRAPHE

NICOLE BROSSARD and KAREN HOULE READING @ PARAGRAPHE
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Paragraphe Bookstore presents an author talk and signing with Nicole Brossard and Karen Houle on Thursday, October 30. Brossard will read from her Griffin-shortlisted volume of poetry, Notebook of Roses and Civilization, and Houle will read from her collection, During (Gaspereau, 2008).

Nicole Brossard and Karen Houle in Montreal
Where: Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 Avenue McGill College Montreal, QC
When: Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Free

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Canada’s first women’s studies program, turns 30.

Read our story on concordia’s website !

The Dark Side of Human Rights: A Postcolonial Reflection

Speaker: Ratna Kapur

Date: Tuesday, October 28, 5:00 pm

Place: Moot Court, Faculty of Law, McGill University,

Contact: Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and McGill Faculty of Law

Please join us on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 20th anniversary of the prestigious John Humphrey Lecture Series at McGill. Kapur’s lecture will interrogate the foundational claims of human rights as a progressive, forward-looking, universal project, as well as the assumptions about the liberal subject on which it is based. Her talk reveals the dark side of the human rights project and how it has been based on assumptions about difference, the cultural ‘Other.’

Kapur is a leading Indian legal scholar, the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, and a lecturer at the Indian Society for International Law. She publishes and lectures extensively on issues of international law, human rights, feminist legal theory and postcolonial theory, and she has held numerous international academic appointments.

Kaarina Kailo visits Montreal

BPW Montréal Book Launch & Speaker’s

Dinner

Dr. Kaarina Kailo, speaks on the International Women’s Movement and launches her latest book, “Wo(men) and Bears–the Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited” (Innanna Press & Education, Toronto)

Kaarina Kailo, Ph.D. from University of Toronto in comparative literature has held numerous positions in women’s studies, principal and associate professor of Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal, first professor of women’s studies and multiculturalism at Oulu University, Finland. She has published over 70 articles and has edited or co-edited numerous books on Indigenous women’s issues in North American and Finland, on the gift economy and globalization, on gendered violence and healing, women’s spirituality and ecofeminism, postcolonial theory and the literature of Northern women.

Thursday, November 20th

5:30pm – 6:30pm

BOOK LAUNCH & NETWORKING

6:30pm – 8:00pm

SPEAKER’S DINNER & BOOK LAUNCH

$37 MEMBERS; $47 NON-MEMBERS

Payable by cash or check at the door

To reserve your place, please contact Erin Kennedy at erin.l.kennedy@live.ca

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 17TH

No-shows and cancellations received after November 17TH are subject to

A $30 administration fee

St. James Club

1145 Union Avenue

Montreal (514) 866-7474

Boy I Am is presented @ Concordia

An open Film Screening as part of WSDB: 498Q: Transsexual and Transgender Cultural Production

The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy  and  Simone de Beauvoir Institute present:

"BOY I AM"

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Film Screening and Q&A


Thursday, October 30th 2008 @ 8PM


1455 De Maisonneuve west room: H-762


Concordia University Hall

building
FREE
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“Boy I Am” tackles the resistance of some women in feminist and
lesbian communities who view FTM transitioning as at best a “trend”
or
at worst an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege.

This groundbreaking film opens up a dialog between the lesbian, feminist, and transgender communities while also promoting understanding of transgender issues for general audiences.

“Boy I Am” is an open Film Screening as part of WSDB: 498Q:
Transsexual and Transgender Cultural Production

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2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy
2110 Mackay (metro Guy-Concordia)
tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 7431

November 21st: The Institute Celebrates its 30th anniversary

Schedule of events:

Panel discussion with former Principals of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute :

Maïr Verthuy Arpi Hamalian Elizabeth Henrik Barbara Meadowcroft (for Marianne Ainley) Kaarina Kailo Fran Shaver Candis Steenbergen (for Lillian Robinson), Viviane Namaste Chantal Maillé	1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m
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Cocktails with speech by Interim Dean Joanne Locke:	5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m
Dinner and keynote address by Concordia President, Dr. Judith Woodsworth: There will be a vegetarian option.	6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m

You can register at: alumni.concordia.ca/events

The cost of registration is $35.00 per person ($10.00 for current students).

All events will be held at:

The Montefiore Club 1195 Guy St. Montreal, QC

This event was made possible with the financial support of the Office of the Dean of Arts and Science, Joanne Locke. Students were subsidized by the Dean of Students, Dr. Elizabeth Morey and the Institute. The Institute would also like to acknowledge the help and support of the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations.

For more information, contact Derek Linetsky at 514-848-2424, ext. 5629, or Derek.linetsky@concordia.ca.

Wheel Chair Accessible

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute presents Dr.Chengiah Ragaven: Crimes Against Humanity The Trafficking of Women Internationally

Dr Chengiah Ragaven is a faculty member of a recently established department of International studies at the Central Connecticut State University and he is one of the first male research associates of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute since 1986. He also published several articles, reviewed several books, and produced and directed The Ragaven Interview. His specific area of interest has been Women in liberation Struggles and Social Change around the world. He particularly contributed to women’s issues in South Africa, USA and Canada and he focused on Women and Children during war as “Collateral Damage”.

He spoke, last year during the Fall Research seminar at the Institute, about Women and Wars-Militarized Violence against women. We are very proud to welcome him this year for this very important lecture on women trafficking.

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute presents

Dr. Chengiah Ragaven

Crimes Against Humanity The Trafficking of Women Internationally

Friday, October 17^th, 2008

14:30pm

@ The Simone de Beauvoir Institute

2170 Bishop MU101

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

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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.