Courses, Lectures, and Reading Groups

Lecture Series for students on film-making (in English), Transforming our Lives Films, (Mumbai CRT).  Exploring the lives of women who are making a difference in M ward (the research site in Mumbai).  June – Sept 2017.

Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 1, The City Institute, York University –  “An Introduction: how has the feminist urban academic field evolved?” (Linda Peake, York Team). January 5, 2018.

Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 2, The City Institute, York University – “Social Reproduction in Feminist Urban Studies,” Gökbörü Tanyildiz (member of the City Institute). February 2, 2018.

Feminist Methodology and the Global South Reading Group York University, Dr. Elsa Koleth (February 16, 2018)

Feminist Methodology and the Global South Reading Group York University, Dr. Elsa Koleth (February 8, 2019)

Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 3, The City Institute, York University – “Feminist Methodologies and the global south”. (Elsa Koleth, York Team & Sylvia Bawa, Ibadan CRT). March 16, 2019.

Undergraduate course: Transnational Feminisms: perspectives from South Asia and beyond (Shilpa Padhke, Mumbai CRT), Brandeis University, Boston, USA.  Spring 2019.

Theorizing the Urban (Martina Rieker, Cairo CRT), American University in Cairo, Egypt. Spring 2019.

Undergraduate course: Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South, SOSC 4601, York University. Course Director: Elsa Koleth, York Team (new syllabus). Summer 2019.

Graduate course: Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South, GEOG 5330, York University. Course Director: Linda Peake (new syllabus). Fall 2020.

Undergraduate course: Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South, SOSC 4046, York University. Course Director: Nasya Razavi, York Team, Cochabamba CRT. Summer 2021.

Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar, York University

1) Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 1, The City Institute, York University – “An Introduction: how has the feminist urban academic field evolved?” (Linda Peake, York Team). Jan 5, 2018.

2) Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 2, The City Institute, York University – “Social Reproduction in Feminist Urban Studies,” Gökbörü Tanyildiz (member of the City Institute). Feb 2, 2018.

Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group Seminar 3, The City Institute, York University – “Feminist Methodologies and the global south”. (Elsa Koleth, York Team & Sylvia Bawa, Ibadan CRT). March 16, 2019.

Summer Schools Organised

Hetetna Urban Summer School. Cairo. This one-week summer school, held in Arabic, trained applicants to explore how a gender perspective complicates their specific Cairo neighborhood based research projects. Following the workshop participants exhibited their work in a one-day exhibition at a local NGO open to the public. (Cairo CRT). October 1-7, 2019.

Summer Institute in Urban Studies (SIUS) 2023.  The Summer Institute in Urban Studies provides an opportunity to investigate leading-edge theoretical and methodological questions, along with a range of associated career development issues, in the field of urban studies. York University, Toronto (York Team). May 22-26, 2023.