CRIAW Forum May 4-6, 2007

About the Forum

CRIAW (Canadian Reasearch Institute For The Advancement of Women) wants to create a space to collectively explore, reflect, and mobilize around the alternatives being developed and explored by women dealing with poverty and exclusion, particularly within the Canadian context. The Forum seeks to bring together a wide range of people into conversation with one another to explore alternative visions and practices. Possible outcomes include the development of concrete actions and/or the development of new partnerships and alliances.

The Forum will limit the number of participants to 75. This activity is not meant to be a conference but rather an opportunity to strategize and further develop feminist alternative models and approaches to address women’s poverty and exclusion. There will be a combination of plenary sessions and more “hands on“ smaller group sessions. We anticipate that there will be approximately 12 smaller sessions and it is for these that we are seeking proposals. Partial subsidies will be available on a needs basis.

Interdisciplinary, multicultural and bilingual, this forum will be a space that will offer an opportunity to discuss local, national, and global developments that create opportunities and challenges to women’s active, creative, and critical participation as actors in resisting poverty and social exclusion. We are interested in both individual and collective strategies for alternative visions and practices in resisting poverty and social exclusion. We hope to receive material from grassroots activists, academics, and other individuals who are privately, publicly, and/or politically working with women resisting poverty and exclusion.

Call For Presentations

We invite proposals for round table discussions, interactive presentations, workshops, structured debates as well as art work, poetry and performances which explore, reflect, and mobilize around alternative models to women’s poverty and social exclusion. We welcome contributions from wide range of perspectives, particularly ones that are not usually included in the forefront of feminist discourse such as: sex workers, youth, transgender women, live-in caregivers, women with disabilities, and aboriginal women to name a few.

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