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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 間眅埶AV is named in honour of her contribution to the university. 

April 18, 2024.  間眅埶AV GSWS Alumni Celebration, 間眅埶AV Harbour Centre Careers in Social Justice, 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  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 Nelly Queen : The Life and Times of Jose Sarria. 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, 間眅埶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 - Deconstructing Genocide: the Urgency of the Intellectual Front Against Genocide

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, Indian Classical (Orissi) Dance, 間眅埶AV Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

March 1, 2007: Maude Barlow, Have We Won? The Need for Canadian Womens Stewardship in the Emerging Struggles of our Time

February 10, 2006: Leslie Feinberg, Transformations, Vancouver Public Library.

September 2000: Heidi Hartmann, Women and Poverty: From the Welfare Poor to the Working Poor 間眅埶AV Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

September 2000: Heidi Hartmann, Women and the Workforce: Pay Equity or Family Equity? Halpern Centre, Burnaby

March 16, 2000: Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), The Environment

1999: Linda McQuaig, Overcoming the Cult of Impotence: How to Make Government Serve the Public Good

February 1999: Linda McQuaig, Globalization, Women & the Assault on Equality

October 1997: Sharon McIver, Building a Healing Lodge: First Nations Women and Corrections Harbour Centre Campus

October 1997: Sharon McIver, Matrimonial Propery Rights of First Nations Women (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, Real World of Technology, BC