This year’s Distinguished Visitor in Women’s Studies at the University of Windsor is Uzma Shakir, a Pakistan-born community activist making a difference in Scarborough, Ontario. She is the 2003 recipient of the Jane Jacobs Prize and was recently awarded the Atkinson Foundation\u2019s Economic Justice Award in recognition of her work on behalf of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. She works on issues related to immigration, social equity, the racialization of poverty, and the future of multiculturalism in Canada. <\/p>\n
The events are open to the community but some require an rsvp. Details are below.<\/p>\n
This is the schedule of events from the Distinguished Visitor website<\/a>:<\/p>\n \nWeek of Events 2008<\/p>\n Women, Knowledge and Activism<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> Public Announcement to the Press<\/strong> What Does an Inclusive Feminism Look Like?<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> The Veiled Woman as Social Outsider<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> Islam, Women, and Canadian Law<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> New Canadian Mothers: A Delicate Balancing Act<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> What Can Women Do Together?<\/strong>, Community Organization Luncheon<\/em> Take Back the Night March<\/strong> In Conversation with…Uzma Shakir<\/strong> “We are here because you were there!”<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> Re-scripting the National Narrative: A Woman’s Perspective<\/strong>, Class Visit<\/em> Beyond Sisterhood: Race, Immigration and Solidarity<\/strong>, Community Dinner<\/em> R.S.V.P. by telephone at 519-253-3000 ext. 3727 or by e-mail at wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca or you may register online.<\/p>\n Please note that the office will close at 12:00 p.m. on October 28, 2008. Tickets may be purchased at the door.<\/p>\n For more information, e-mail wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca or call 519-253-3000 ext. 3727.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year’s Distinguished Visitor in Women’s Studies at the University of Windsor is Uzma Shakir, a Pakistan-born community activist making a difference in Scarborough, Ontario. She is the 2003 recipient of the Jane Jacobs Prize and was recently awarded the Atkinson Foundation\u2019s Economic Justice Award in recognition of her work on behalf of immigrants in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,25,15,17,18,4,12,10,41,11,39,37,40,9,28,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo be truly empowered, Uzma argues, women must do more than consume knowledge; they must use their own understanding of the world as a basis for knowledge. Uzma’s experiences with the feminist movement in Pakistan under a military dictatorship taught her that solidarity among women is built through directly engaging issues of complicity and marginality.
\nDate:\tWednesday 22 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tChrysler Hall South, room 162 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tWomen in Protest
\nInstructor: Prof. Nancy Gobatto<\/p>\n
\nDate:\tThursday 23 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
\nPlace:\tToldo Health Education Centre, room 203 (University of Windsor)<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking as a woman of colour with a history of feminist activism in Pakistan, Uzma argues that mainstream North American feminism has not served women of colour because it has been slow to question its own complicity with the imperial agenda of the state, inside Canada and outside. Uzma believes that feminist solidarity with white\/western women is possible only with those who understand the difference between appropriation and solidarity and who commit to deconstructing white privilege.
\nDate:\tThursday 23 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tToldo Health Education Centre, room 203 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tHistory of Women’s Movements in North America
\nInstructor: Dr. Ren\u00e9e Bondy<\/p>\n
\nUzma will show how Canadian state and public discourses have pathologized certain communities since 9\/11, and how these
\ndiscourses frame Islamic women as \u201coppressed\u201d in contrast to \u201cliberated\u201d white\/western women.
\nDate:\tThursday 23 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tToldo Health Education Centre, room 203 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tWomen, Race, and Social Justice
\nInstructors: Dr. Anne Forrest and Dr. Jane Ku<\/p>\n
\nUzma will discuss the consequences for Islamic and non-Islamic women of the Ontario government’s decision to exclude Shari’a law from the arbitration process for resolving marital conflict, and of Elections Canada’s decision to permit veiled women to vote.
\nDate:\tThursday 23 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tVanier Hall, Winclare A (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tWomen and the Law
\nInstructor: Prof. Amanda Burgess
\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair, Centre for Religion and Culture at Assumption University.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUzma will discuss the dilemma of immigrant mothers who are responsible for transmitting the \u201chome\u201d culture to their children while negotiating a new cultural environment on their behalf. She will examine the burdens that racialization and criminalization impose, in order to show how race and marginality complicate the mothering process.
\nDate:\tFriday 24 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
\nPlace:\tToldo Health Education Centre, room 203 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tMothering and Motherhood
\nInstructor: Prof. Jacqueline Bobyk-Krumins<\/p>\n
\nUzma argues that social agencies must actively connect with other community groups for social change. Otherwise, they will leave unchanged the society that produces the social problems the agencies have been created to solve. Panelists will describe the very real barriers to moving beyond the service delivery model.
\nPanel Discussion with: Uzma Shakir, Patricia Noonan, and Gis\u00e8le Harrison. Rachel Olivero – moderator.
\nDate:\tFriday 24 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tClub Alouette, 2418 Central Ave.
\nIf you or your delegate plan to attend, please R.S.V.P. to wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000 ext. 3727.<\/p>\n
\nA Call to Action: Identifying the Pressing Issues for Women<\/strong>
\nTake Back the Night is a world-wide event protesting male violence against women and children. All are welcome to the rally; however, the march is for women and children only. The march is symbolic of women’s right to reclaim the night without the need for a male escort.
\nKeynote Speaker: Uzma Shakir
\nDate:\tSaturday 25 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tMemorial of Hope, University of Windsor (between Essex & Dillon Halls)
\nRally begins at 8:00 p.m., march to follow. For more information, please visit www.uwindsor.ca\/takebackthenight.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPlease join Friends of Women’s Studies for an afternoon of friendship and conversation with Uzma Shakir.
\nDate:\tSunday 26 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tBetty Wilkinson Room, Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. W.
\nTickets: $250 (this event is free for members of 250 for $250 and major donors)
\nR.S.V.P. by telephone at 519-253-3000 ext. 3727 or by e-mail at wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca by October 17.<\/p>\n
\nUzma will examine connections between local and global conditions for women, in particular, how the growing disparity in wealth worldwide makes women in Canada more and more reliant on the undervalued labour of women in the global south.
\nDate:\tMonday 27 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
\nPlace:\tOdette Building, room 104 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tWomen in Canadian Society
\nInstructors:\tProf. Nancy Gobatto and Prof. Daniella Beaulieu<\/p>\n
\nUzma will illustrate how certain commonplace words and phrases obfuscate gender, race, sexuality and economic inequalities. She will deconstruct terms such as liberal democracy, multiculturalism, reasonable accommodation, diversity and tolerance.
\nDate:\tMonday 27 October<\/strong>
\nTime: \t2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
\nPlace:\tDillon Hall, room 361 (University of Windsor)
\nCourse:\tLanguage and Women’s Place
\nInstructor:\tProf. Nancy Gobatto<\/p>\n
\nKeynote Speaker: Uzma Shakir
\nDate:\tTuesday 28 October<\/strong>
\nTime:\t5:30 p.m. Reception, 6:30 p.m. Dinner
\nPlace:\tG. Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave. at Tecumseh Rd. E.
\nTickets: Individual: $60
\nStudents: $15
\nTable of 10: $600
\nSponsor a table: $600 ($600 charitable tax receipt)
\nSponsor a student: $60 ($60 charitable tax receipt)<\/p>\n