Events for September 2013

Time: 12pm-2pm
Location: University of Ottawa, Arts Hall, Room 509

Title: "'Gender Equality' as Empty Signifier? Understanding Perceptions of the Gendered Division of Labour from Religious Young Adults Living in the UK"

Gender Equality has become a key value upon which liberal democratic governments measure themselves. Religious citizens are often positioned as a challenge to this, with the assumption that religions are overwhelmingly gender-conservative, endorsing traditional codes of behaviour. As it is young people who most embody the rhetoric of freedom and opportunity, young religious women in particular come to symbolise the assumed inequality of conservative religious regimes (Scharff 2011 ...

University of Ottawa

Participants: Peter Beyer, Donald Boisvert, Spencer Bullivant, Paul Gareau, Sarah-Jane Page, Solange Lefebvre, Heather Shipley

Location: University College, Room 140, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto

Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm

Title: Religion, Sexual Diversity and South Asian Youth Culture in the GTA

The community workshop sessions and the public forum will assess  the role that religion plays in the expression of gender and sexual diversity among South Asian youth in the GTA. What role does religion play in shaping sexual and gender identities? How do religious and cultural communities and Canadian values of assimilation and multiculturalism intersect to produce ambiguities, challenges, and opportunities for young South Asian Canadians in their gender expression and formation of ...

Location: University of Toronto Mississauga Council Chambers, Davis Building, Room 3130, 3359 Mississauga Road North

Time: 9:00am-5:00pm

Title: Religion, Sexual Diversity and South Asian Youth Culture in the GTA

The community workshop sessions and the public forum will assess  the role that religion plays in the expression of gender and sexual diversity among South Asian youth in the GTA. What role does religion play in shaping sexual and gender identities? How do religious and cultural communities and Canadian values of assimilation and multiculturalism intersect to produce ambiguities, challenges, and opportunities for young South Asian Canadians in their gender ...