Feminist Intersectional Solidarity Group
Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture Series
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Every second year, the Feminist Intersectional Solidarity Group (FIGS) of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) is honoured to sponsor the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture.
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Previous Lectures
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2008
Dr. Damaris Rose
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Refractions and recombinations of the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’: A personalized reflection on challenges by—and to—feminist urban geographies
delivered at Université Laval
2006
Dr. Maureen Reed
University of Saskatchewan
Seeking red herrings in the wood: Tending the shared spaces of environmental and feminist geographies
delivered at Lakehead Univeristy
2004
Dr. Isabel Dyck
University of British Columbia, at the time
Feminist geography, the ‘everyday’, and local–global relations: Hidden spaces of place-making
delivered at Moncton, NB
2002
Dr. Evelyn Peters
University of Saskatchewan
Conceptually unclad: Feminist geography and Aboriginal peoples
delivered at the University of Toronto
2000
Dr. Jennifer Hyndman
Simon Fraser University, at the time
Towards a feminist geopolitics
delivered at Brock University
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Who is Suzanne Mackenzie?
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2023
Dr. Sharlene Mollet
Professor Sharlene Mollett is cross-appointed to the Departments of Human Geography and Global Development Studies at UTSC and is a member of the Graduate Program in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She is Chair of Global Development Studies. She was the 2023 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial lecture, and delivered her lecture, “Racial Geographies of Land and Domestic Service in Panama,” at the Annual Meeting of the CAG hosted by Université de Québec a Montréal, May 9, 2023.
2021
Dr. Beverley Mullings
Professor Beverley Mullings, cross-appointed in Geography and Planning and Women’s Studies at Queen’s University, was the 2021 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial lecture. Dr. Mullings delivered her lecture, “Beyond the dark side of resilience,” remotely at the online CAG hosted by UNBC, June 8, 2021.
2018
Dr. Margo Greenwood and Ms. Linda Sioui
Dr. Margo Greenwood and Ms. Linda Sioui are the 2018 nominees for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture, delivered on August 7 in Quebec City.
2016
Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
Associate Professor Sarah de Leeuw, appointed in the Northern Medical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), is the 2016 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. Dr. de Leeuw delivered the lecture entitled “Writing as a Form of Righting: Practicing Feminist Anti-Racist Literary Geo-graphing in Colonial Canada” at Dalhousie University on June 1, 2016.
2014
Dr. Linda Peake
Professor Linda Peake, appointed in the Department of Social Science at York University, was the 2014 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. Dr. Peake delivered the lecture entitled “Rethinking Feminist Interventions into Geography” at Brock University on May 27, 2014.
2012
Dr. Audrey Kobayashi
Professor Audrey Kobayashi of Geography at Queen's University was the 2012 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. Dr. Kobayashi delivered the talk: "Coming to the Intersection: Impossible Conversations on Race and Gender along the Road" at Wilfrid Laurier University on May 29, 2012.
Dr. Kobayashi's presentation is available to view on line: Coming to the Intersection [1 hour]
2010
Dr. Catherine Nolin
Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), was the 2010 nominee for the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. Dr. Nolin delivered the talk "Geography That Breaks Your Heart: Feminist Geography To/From the Peripheries" at the University of Regina on June 2, 2010. The full presentation, along with introductions from Drs. Sarah de Leeuw & Damaris Rose, is now available to view on line: Geography That Breaks Your Heart [1 hr, 20 min]
Suzanne Mackenzie was a much beloved member of the geographical community, both in Canada and around the world. A pioneer in feminist urban geography, she contributed actively to discussions and research about women and geography and continues to be remembered for her courage, her commitment to feminism, her deep sense of caring for friends, family and students, her sense of justice and her irrepressible humour. These characteristics were all bound up in a generous spirit. She died on October 24, 1998 in her home in Nelson, B.C., at the age of 48. (Please see “Tributes to Suzanne Mackenzie”, Gender, Place and Culture 6 (4), 2009: 401-415; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713668837.)
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Sample of Suzanne's early Women & Environments teaching material, McGill University, 1980 (pdf)
Contact Us
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