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 Simon Fraser University is named in honour of her contribution to the university.
April 18, 2024. SFU GSWS Alumni Celebration, SFU 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, SFU 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,” SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver
March 1, 2007: Maude Barlow, “Have We Won? The Need for Canadian Women’s 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” SFU 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”