This event takes place on Zoom. Access to the virtual room will be given to registered participants only.

To register, please select the registration tab on this website.

Hours in the schedule are those of Quebec (UTC-5/EST).

Some presentations will be in English and others in French, without translation. Summaries are already available in both languages and short presentation reports will be posted on this website after the workshop.

This schedule is subject to change (updates will be announced on this page).

Friday, March 26, 2021

12:45 pm | Opening of the virtual room and connection of participants

1:00-1:15 pm | Welcome address and acknowledgements

1:15-1:35 pm | General introduction to the workshop, by Florence Pasche Guignard (Faculty of theology and religious studies, U.Laval) and Catherine Larouche (Department of anthropology, U. Laval)

1:35 -2:10 pm | Régulation et libération sexuelle au Québec : la sexualité comme moteur de changements sociaux, by Géraldine Mossière (Institut d'Études Religieuses, U. de Montréal)

2:15 -2:50 pm | Gender and religion playing hide and seek at the United Nations, by Amélie Barras (Department of Social Science, York U.)

3:00-3:45 pm | A Case for Kes: A radical Sikh feminist discussion on hair, by Jaspreet K. Bal (Humber College, Toronto) and Santbir Singh (Department of Sociology, York U.)

3:50-4:25 pm | Quaint and curious: Dress codes as signifiers of cultural and religious representation for Mennonite women, by Marlene Epp (History and Peace & Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University College, U. of Waterloo)

4:40-5:15 pm | Sex on trial: The legal history of sexual crimes in Iran in the early 20th century Iran, by Jairan Gahan (History & Classics Department, U. of Alberta)

5:15-5:20 pm | Concluding remarks to the first day of this workshop

Saturday, March 27, 2021

10:00 am | Opening of the virtual classroom and connection of participants

10:15-10:35 am | Summary of Friday sessions by students at Université Laval, and general remarks

10:35-11:10 am | Expériences subjectives de femmes de confession musulmane provenant de Bruxelles et de Montréal par rapport au concept de la laïcité, by Emilie El-Khoury (Department of anthropology, U. Laval)

11:15-11:50 am | The politics of belief: The refashioning of the body in law, public policy and on the virtual public square, by Zaheeda P. Alibhai (Department of Classics and Religious Studies, U. of Ottawa)

11:50 am -1:00 pm || Lunch break

12:50 pm | Reopening of the virtual classroom and connection of participants

1:00-1:35 pm | « This is a Catholic country » ou comment la mort évitable de Savita Hallapanavar est devenue l’emblème du mouvement pro-choix en République d’Irlande, by Audrey Rousseau (Department of Social Sciences, U. du Québec en Outaouais)

1:40-2:15 pm | Cultiver un corps féminin : l'appropriation de la ritualité féminine (samskâra) à l'intérieur de la communauté hijra,

by Mathieu Boisvert (Department of Religious Studies, U. du Québec à Montréal)

2:35-2:55 pm | Students' roundtable on Saturday sessions by students at Université Laval

2:55-3:25 pm | Concluding remarks and closing of the academic part of the workshop, by Catherine Larouche (Department of anthropology, U. Laval) and Florence Pasche Guignard (Faculty of theology and religious studies, U. Laval)

Following the workshop: Free Online Screening of the documentary How She Moves (2020), with English (or French) subtitles

3:45-4:00 pm | Introduction by the organizers and the director

4:00-4:45 pm | Film screening (link will be provided to participants registered and attending online)

4:45-5:15 pm | Comments, live Q&A with the director and access to the pre-recorded Q&A session