Dear colleagues,
Alexandra Branzan Albu will take over the role of AWC Chair from 1 January 2025. Stay tuned for more information.
Happy Holidays.
Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun
The UVIC website celebrates the work of women in science. Check out the work of Dr Dr. Daniela Damian: https://www.uvic.ca/undergraduate/stories/inspiring-women-in-stem.php.
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Dear colleagues,
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Academic Women’s Caucus (AWC) will be hosting a get together at the University Club in the Fireside (or adjoining) Lounge on March 8th 2024 from 4-6pm.
The AWC is a unique opportunity to meet people from across campus who you might otherwise never meet. It provides a voice on campus to lobby for policies and initiate projects relating to gender equity, and a network for female-identified, non-binary and gender non-conforming faculty, librarians, sessionals, limited term instructors and postdocs to meet and support each other. The organization is unique in bringing together people who work in different such roles and who work in many different parts of the campus community. Please come along and bring a colleague!
Also, if you or someone you know would be interested in joining the Steering Committee, please send me or Amy Verdun an email. We are gathering nominations until March 8th.
Friday, March 8th 2024 from 4pm-6pm. See you there!
Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun
Previous celebrations:
Professor Maneesha Deckha has been named the University of Victoria Lansdowne Chair in Law. she is a current faculty member, and will take up the position on July 1, 2016.
Professor Deckha’s work critiquing the legal treatment of non-human animals has received international recognition, being clearly among the leading publications in the field. Not only does her work analyze and question the human/animal divide, but it has far-reaching implications for feminist theory and bioethical questions generally, in both of which she has published internationally influential works. She is a committed, talented, and imaginative teacher, having received the Terry Wuester award and developed an award-winning course in Animals, Culture and the Law. She has, over the years, obtained significant research grants, especially from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at New York University. She has also engaged with a broader community – both within the university (as an active chair, for example, of the Academic Women’s Caucus) and beyond. Congratulations Professor Deckha.