TORONTO, September 17, 2002 -- Janice Gross Stein, one of Canada’s most notable international relations experts, will present the Eleventh Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University on Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in Osgoode’s Moot Court. The public is cordially invited to attend this free lecture at the Law School, which is located on the campus of York University at 4700 Keele Street. On-campus visitor parking is available on Sentinel Road, two streetlights west of Keele Street and Finch Avenue West.
Stein, who has titled her lecture The Invisible Women: The Veil of Ignorance in reference to the lack of access to education that is contributing to gender inequality in countries such as India, Afghanistan and the Middle East, is Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies. She is the author of a number of books, book chapters and articles on issues of international security, negotiation processes, and peacemaking, particularly in relation to the Middle East.
Stein has also been active as a member of a number of advisory panels, including most recently the Research Advisory Board to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Advisory Board to the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development, and the Committee on International Conflict Resolution of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
Stein presented the Massey Lectures last year on The Cult of Efficiency, later published by the House of Anansi Press, and her book was nominated by the Writers’ Trust of Canada for the Shaughnessy-Cohen Prize in Political Writing and by the Canadian Political Science Association for the Donald Smiley Prize. With David Cameron, she is also the editor of a new collection of essays, Street Protests and Fantasy Parks.
The Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture was established in 1985 with the assistance of The Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture Fund. The Fund seeks to develop and promote, through lectures and public discussion, ideas about women and the law, including sex equality, feminist theory and applied legal research in areas of law with a significant impact on women.
Barbara Betcherman, an Osgoode graduate who became director of legal research for CBC-TV’s Ombudsman program and later a successful novelist, and who also served on a Royal Commission investigating alleged police brutality, was killed in a traffic accident on June 13, 1983 at the age of 35.
Osgoode Hall Law School, with the support of Betcherman’s family and her many former friends and admirers, continues to honour the memory of this gifted woman with a lecture series held every other year at the Law School.
The Lecture has been presented in the past by such luminaries as Maude Barlow, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Atwood, bell hooks, Catharine MacKinnon, Alanis Obomsawin, Marilyn Waring, Madam Justice Bertha Wilson, Madam Justice Rosalie Abella, and there was also a panel discussion involving June Callwood, Pat Armstrong, Lorenne Clarke and Carmencita Hernandez.
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, one of the country’s most distinguished law schools, is committed to excellence in teaching and research and the pursuit of academic initiatives that further an understanding of the role of law in society. Osgoode offers rigorous academic programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional development levels, and has more than 15,000 alumni who are working in a variety of careers around the world.
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