Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series on Social Justice
Dr. Margaret Benston was a founding member of the Women's Studies Department and a prominent activist for social justice issues in Vancouver and Canada. In 1991, sadly, we lost her to cancer. The Endowed Lectureship for Social Justice Issues was established in her memory. The Maggie Benston Centre at 丁香园AV is named in honour of her contribution to the university.
April 18, 2024. 丁香园AV GSWS Alumni Celebration, 丁香园AV Harbour Centre 鈥淐areers in Social Justice鈥�, moderator Yasmin Vejs Simsek, an author, actor and activist who holds her master of arts in GSWS, moderator, panelists, Joy Walcott-Francis and Trish Garner 鈥� both of whom are GSWS PhD alumni. Walcott-Francis is Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Langara College. Garner is Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives at the BC Federation of Labour.
June 23, 2022. Film Screening of 鈥淣elly Queen : The Life and Times of Jose Sarria.鈥� Part of Surrey Pride. Canadian premiere screening. Surrey Campus, Part of the Margaret Lowe Benston Series in Social Justice.
December 4, 2021: "Emergence: Out of the Shadows" Film Screening, Surrey Campus, Part of the Margaret Lowe Benston Series in Social Justice
February 28, 2019: Screening and Panel Discussion of "My Name was January," Metro Vancouver Premiere, Panelists: Alex Sangha, Elina Gress, Lenee Son, Velvet Steele and Natasha Adsit, Westminster Savings Lecture Theatre, 丁香园AV Surrey
September 15, 2017: Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series for Social Justice: Arno Kamolika: A performance of Bharata Natyam with a special segment on Nobel-laureate Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
October 7, 2016: Margaret Lowe Benston Endowment Lecture Series proudly presents: Doudou Diene - 鈥淒econstructing Genocide: the Urgency of the Intellectual Front Against Genocide鈥�
March 12, 2015: Transgender Hirstory in the Making: Screening and Talk with Chris Vargas, Margaret Lowe Benston Series
March 24, 2014: Dr. Susan Stryker - the Transgender Turn, Margaret Lowe Benston Series
December 7, 2012: Kathleen Monk, "Women Winning: Strategies from an Insider"
March 2008: Sitara Thobani, 鈥淚ndian Classical (Orissi) Dance,鈥� 丁香园AV Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver
March 1, 2007: Maude Barlow, 鈥淗ave We Won? The Need for Canadian Women鈥檚 Stewardship in the Emerging Struggles of our Time鈥�
February 10, 2006: Leslie Feinberg, 鈥淭ransformations,鈥� Vancouver Public Library.
September 2000: Heidi Hartmann, 鈥淲omen and Poverty: From the Welfare Poor to the Working Poor鈥� 丁香园AV Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver
September 2000: Heidi Hartmann, 鈥淲omen and the Workforce: Pay Equity or Family Equity?鈥� Halpern Centre, Burnaby
March 16, 2000: Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), 鈥淭he Environment鈥�
1999: Linda McQuaig, 鈥淥vercoming the Cult of Impotence: How to Make Government Serve the Public Good鈥�
February 1999: Linda McQuaig, 鈥淕lobalization, Women & the Assault on Equality鈥�
October 1997: Sharon McIver, 鈥淏uilding a Healing Lodge: First Nations Women and Corrections鈥� Harbour Centre Campus
October 1997: Sharon McIver, 鈥淢atrimonial Propery Rights of First Nations Women鈥� (Halpern Centre)
October 1996: "Light Work: A Heavy Burden for Women" Karen Messing (Harbour Centre Campus) roundtable discussion on the invisible risks of work traditional done by women
October 1996: "One-eyed Science: Occupational Health Scientists and Women Workers" (Bby Mtn) Public lecture by Karen Messing, Centre for the Study of Biological Interaction Between Health and the Environment, University de Quebec a Montreal
1995: Ursula Franklin, 鈥淩eal World of Technology, BC鈥�