Category Archives: EVENTS

This category includes posts relating to events sponsored by, or of interest to, AWC members.

Chair’s Welcome to the UVic Academic Women’s Caucus!

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Message from the past co-Chairs, Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun

The Academic Women Caucus (AWC) has a long story at UVic, giving a collective voice to academic women on campus since its establishment in 1985. Over the years, the AWC network has been not only a source of friendship, and academic support but also of mobilization for campus activism. During our more than 20 years at UVIC we have served this academic community in different capacities. We both served on the steering committee in the past. We hope you will join us on the steering committee, if you are keen to participate, and come to our social events.

The Women’s Caucus is a space where we can support each other, celebrate and or discuss challenges we face in our academic units, or just enjoy one another’s company. It is a space where we feel that one is not alone or ‘abnormal’. One of the highlights of the AWC’s history has been its support in the creation of the UVic Minority and Indigenous Women Network (MIWIN).

AWC is open to all academics on campus who identify as women (or gender-fluid): librarians, faculty members, sessional and limited term appointments. We are firm believers of the power of women coming together and forming partnerships with other progressive groups on and outside campus.

Following in the footsteps of previous Chairs, as co-Chairs and a behalf of the steering committee we invite you to join us to continue having a voice in matters that are important to us. Stay tuned, as we will be announcing social and academic events in the coming months. We will inform you about programs to put into practice the AWC philosophy of supporting each other.

Looking forward to meeting and/or reconnecting with you all.

Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun
avigaile@uvic.ca and averdun@uvic.ca

 

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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, 4pm-6pm. See you there!

Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun

 

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Please note that we received a notification from Elisabeth Gugl about a talk on 8 March (zoom) (details below). If you are interested please register for this talk please register: https://www.economics.ca/events/ceweccfecs-international-womens-day-lecture

 

When
08 Mar 2024
11:00am – 12:15pm PST

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Event Details

CWEC/CFEC is thrilled to have Nava Ashraf as the IWD speaker talking about her work on inspiring inclusion.

Nava Ashraf’s research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in the context of global development in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She also conducts research on questions of intra-household decision making and gender norms in the areas of finance, fertility, and labor force participation. Her papers are published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her field experiments on health services delivery and educational investment have been carried out jointly with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, using a model of co-generation of knowledge, reaching national and global scale.

Join Nava’s talk on zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81831575916?pwd=B1ZMcffjuYaR8iGj2anPg34SOAlRTm.1

Meeting ID: 818 3157 5916

Passcode: 060815

https://www.economics.ca/events/ceweccfecs-international-womens-day-lecture

 

Update & Mark Your Calendar!

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Dear colleagues,

Greetings from Academic Women’s Caucus (AWC).  We will be hosting an end of term get together at the University Club in the Fireside (or adjoining) Lounge, on Thursday November 30th  2023 at 3:30-5:30pm. Please come along and bring a colleague!

At the meeting, I will brief you on the ongoing ‘on-boarding’ project, and Amy and I will let you know of our plans for the coming year. We are also keen to hear from all members and, of course, especially from colleagues who are new to UVIC, about ideas and projects the AWC can help with. So please do bring a new colleague on Nov 30th to hear about our projects or… just to socialize with other colleagues!

The AWC is a unique opportunity to meet people from across campus who you might otherwise never meet.  The Caucus serves all academic women, people who identify as women, non-binary and gender non-conforming persons at UVic who work as faculty, librarians and sessional instructors. It exists to support you at the university and to work on issues that are of interest and concern to you.

So, save the date!: Thursday, November 30th 2023, at 3:30-5:30pm. See you there!

Avigail Eisenberg and Amy Verdun

Social Justice Lecture & TRC Action Event

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AWC hosted Dian Million, March  17 & 18, 2016 in partnership with Social Justice and numerous partners:

Sponsors:
Social Justice Studies
Academic Women’s Caucus
Indigenous Affairs
Indigenous Education
Co-sponsors:
Indigenous Education
School of Child and Youth Care
Indigenous Student Support Centre
Native Student Union
Gender Studies
Vice President Academic Provost
Associate Vice President: Student Affairs
Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Academic Planning
Indigenous Student Support Services
(HSD)
Community Co-sponsor
TRC-Action Response Constellation
(Child & Youth Health Network)