Past Florence Bird Lectures
Past Florence Bird Lectures
(all dates listed are in the month of March unless otherwise specified)
2025: forthcoming…
2024 (5th): Michele K. Lewis, “Black“LGBTQIA+” Psychology: Understanding Collective Self-determination, Afrocentrism, and Optimal Identity.”
2022 (22nd): Katherine McKittrick, “My Heart Makes My Head Swim“
2021: no lecture due to pandemic
2020 (postponed to November 19 due to pandemic): Jennifer Nash, Workshop on “Black Feminism Reimagined“
2019 (27th) Ann Cvetkovich, new Director of PJIWGST. “Artist Curation as Queer and Decolonial Museum Practice: Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice”
2018 (Sep 21) Robyn Maynard, “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present“
2017 (27th) Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Anishinaabe Writer), Geraldine King (Anishinaabe Writer and Community Engagement Specialist, PhD Student), and Lee Maracle (Coast Salish Poet and Author): “Storytelling, Feminism, Resistance: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Geraldine King, and Lee Maracle in Conversation”
2016 (26th) Ivan Coyote (Writer, Storyteller, Musician and Educator): “Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps”
2015 (25th) Karyn Recollect (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto): “Glyphing decolonial Love: The intersections of Indigenous hip hop feminisms, Indigenous girlhood and building solidarities”
2014 (24th) Alia Hogben (Executive Director of the Canadian Council for Muslim Women): “Challenges for Canadian Muslim Women: The Quebec Charter of Values”
2013 (23rd) Kim Anderson (Professor, Cree/Metis Writer and Educator): “Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine”
2012 (22nd) The Honourable Landon Pearson (Children’s Rights Advocate, Author and Former Senator): “From Strength to Strength: Children’s and Women’s Rights over the Life Cycle”
2011 (21st) Bonnie Devine (Artist, Curator, Writer and Educator): “Claiming and Naming: A question of land and identity”
2010 (20th) Flora Igoki Terah (Community Worker and Political Activist): “Broken Bodies, Unbroken Spirit”
2008 (19th) Maude Barlow (Water Activist and Author): “Water – The Most Pressing Women’s Issue of All?”
2006 (18th) Bonnie Sherr Klein (Feminist Filmmaker and Disability Activist): “SHAMELESS: The ART of DISABILITY – Some Thoughts about Film, Feminism and Activism”
2005 (17th) “Jane Doe” (Writer, Teacher and Activist): “The Story of Jane Doe: the Politics of Rape”
2004 (16th) Nelofer Pazira, (Journalist and Film-maker): “Image and Reality: Women in Afghanistan”
2003 (15th) The Honourable Susan Whelan, P.C., M.P. Minister for International Cooperation: “Leading the Way: Canada’s International Role in Promoting Gender Equality”
2002 (14th) Maureen McTeer, (Author and Lawyer): “Women and the Commercialisation of Life: From Surrogacy to Genetic Patenting and the Harvard Mouse”
2001 (13th) Maureen O’Neil, President, International Development Research Centre: “The Future of Canadian Democracy: Lessons from the Royal Commissions ”
1998 (12th) Dr. Didi Khayatt. Director, The Centre for Feminist Research, York University: “Talking Equity: Classroom Experiences”
1997 (11th) Mairuth Sarsfield: “Woman as a Commodity”
1996 (10th) Professor Patricia Smart (Dept. of French) : “Seven Women Who Dared to be Different: The Women Artists of Quebec’s Automatist Movement”
1995 (9th) Professor Greta Hofmann-Nemiroff (Joint Chair): “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”: A Feminist Account of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing”
1994 (8th) Professor Thelma McCormack (York University): “Infertility is a Feminist Issue”
1993 (7th) Ms. Judy Rebick: “Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Society”
1992 (6th) Mme. Madeleine Parent: “Changes over a Lifetime of Feminist Labour Activism: A View from Quebec”
1991 (5th) Professor Monique Begin (Joint Chair): “Women in Health Sciences: Points of Resistance to Change”
1990 (4th) Dr. Glenda Sims: “Racism and Sexism in the 90’s”
1989 (3rd) Ms. Rosemary Brown: “Feminism/Development: Women Working for Global Change”
1988 (2nd) Professor Naomi Griffiths: “Mating and Marriage in Early Acadia”
1987 (1st) Professor Margaret Wade Labarge: “The Education of Medieval Women: Many questions, some answers”