2017
‘Virtual Graveyards and Cyber-Memorials: Tracing Race, Identity and Belonging,’ presented with Bipasha Sultana and Nicole Taylor. Canadian Communications Association Annual Meeting, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, June 2, 2017.
‘Re-Framing Grief:Online Memorials and the Gendered, Racialized Body,’ presented with NicoleTaylor and Bipasha Sultana, International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 21, 2017.
2016
‘Framing Exceptional Victims: Young Muslim Women, Honour Killings, and the Technologies of Fitting In. International Congress on Gender and Communication, University of Seville, Spain, April 7-8.
‘Revisiting Discourses of Denial’ – Guest Lecture, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, April 12, 2016.
‘Narrating the Nation’: News, Ideology and Methodology – invited public lecture, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, April 12, 2016.
2015
‘Necrological Somatechniques: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women as ‘Bare Life.’ Communication, Postcoloniality & Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations, WIF Symposium, Villanova University, PA, March 26-29, 2015.
‘Rape and Race in the Canadian Press: Reproducing the Moral Order.’ The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Montreal, July 12-16, 2015.
2014
‘Framing Race, Talking Culture: Strategic Omissions and Substitutions in Canadian Media.’ CrossRoads International Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 30 – July 5, 2014.
‘The Violence of Exceptionalism: Constructing WorthyVictims.’ Canadian Communication Association, Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities, Brock University, May 29, 2014.
‘Murder They Wrote’: Representations of Race and Femicide in the Canadian Press. Impact of Family Violence: South Asian Perspectives 2014, organized by the Social Services Network of Ontario. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, May 14, 2014.
2013
‘Representations of Femicides involving Women of Colour andIndigenous Women in the Canadian Press.’ Presented at the Interpersonal Violence Interventions – Social and Cultural Perspectives Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, August 28-30, 2013.
2012
‘From Serial Killers to Honor Killings: Cultural and RacialNarratives of Femicide in the Canadian Press,’ presented at the International Conference on Gender and Violence, Izmir, Turkey, April 4-6, 2012.
‘What Happened to Race?’ Spotlight panel presentation at the CrossRoads International Cultural Studies Conference, Paris, July3-6, 2012.
‘Race in Communication and Media Studies,’ presented at a special panel on Race and the Media, Canadian Communications Association Annual Conference, Congress 2012, Waterloo, Ontario, June1-3, 2012.
2011
‘Sanctuary –A State of Exception,’ presented at the Canadian Communication Association Annual meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 1-3, 2011.
‘Obituaries as Markers of Memory: Grievability, Visibility and Representation of Aboriginal Women in the Canadian National Imaginary,’ presented at the International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Istanbul, Turkey, May 25-29, 2011.
‘Contextualizing Violence Against Muslim Women,’ keynote address at the Violence in the Lives of Muslim Girls and Women in Canada Symposium, London, Ontario, September 22, 2011.
‘Race, Gender and the Carceral Net,’ Annual Women’s Studies Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, April 8, 2011.
2010
‘Disposable Bodies: Race, Femicide and the Reporting of the Pickton Trial,’ presented at the 10th Annual CriticalRace and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton,October 8-10, 2010.
‘Bodies and Borders,’ Global Media and Terrorism Conference, Westminster University, London, UK, September 13-14, 2010.
‘Veiled Women and the Canadian Mediascape’, presented at the 7thInternational Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, August 9-13, 2010
2009
‘Soft Power– Patrolling the Canada-US Border’, presented at the Culture and Canada US-Border Conference, University of Kent,Canterbury, UK, 26-28 June, 2009.
‘The ‘Just War’: Canadian Media Coverage of the ‘War on Terror’,presented at the International Conference on Conflict, Terrorism & Society, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-30, 2009.
Reconciling Privacy and Security in the context of Race, Gender and Citizenship’ at the Concordia University’s President’s Conference Series on Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy, Montreal,Quebec, November 4,
Panel presentation on ‘Social Anxieties and Legal Responses,’ at the Canadian Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges and National Judicial Institute Conference on Women and Girls and the Justice System: Convergences, Divergence and Intersections, Ottawa, Ontario, November 4, 2009.
‘Race, gender and Constructions of the Other in Mainstream Canadian News Media’, presented at the International Workshop on Cultural Dialogues, Religion and Communication, Ottawa, Ontario, October 22, 2009.
‘Doubling Discourses and the Muslim Other’, keynote presentation at the 5th Regional conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario, May 21, 2009.
‘Between the Virgin and the Vamp: News Coverage of Sex Crime and the Reproduction of the Moral Order,’ Opening Plenary Presentation, Sexual Assault Law, Practice & Activism in the Post-Jane Doe Era, University of Ottawa, March 6, 2009.
2008
‘Patrolling the Nation through Soft Power: Race, Class and Gender in Canadian TV Crime Drama,’ presented at the 8th Annual Critical Race and Anti-colonial Studies Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, November 14-16, 2008.
‘Afghan Women and the Rescue Myth,’ presented at a panel on Reproducing Terrorisms, Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting, June 4, 2008, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia.
‘Symbolic and Discursive Violence in Media Representations of Aboriginal Missing and Murdered Women,’ presented at the 7th Global Conference on Violence and Contexts of Hostility, Budapest, Hungary, May 6, 2008.
‘Intersectionalities in Theory and Practice,’ Equity Series organized by the Equity Committee of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, June 3, 2008.
‘Afghan Women and the Rescue Myth in Canada’s Globe and Mail, Multi-Media University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February28, 2008.
2007
‘Deserving and Undeserving Women’, presented with Reisa Klein at the International Symposium on Media and Cultural Politics, Izmir, Turkey, November 13, 2007.
Gendered Narratives of War.’ Presented at the 5th International Conference on Mass Communications, Marathon, Greece, May 22, 2007.
‘Good Muslim/Bad Muslim: Zinedine Zidane, the Infamous Head-Butt and Chivalric Masculinity in the Age of Empire,’ presented at the 7th AnnualCritical Race Studies Conference on Transnational Racism and the ‘Right to Have Rights,’ OISE, University of Toronto, May 3, 2007.
‘Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodation in the Media,’ presented with Dr. Monika Gagnon, Mediated Cultures, Stereotypes, Perceptions and Representations, McGill University, Montreal, November 16, 2007.
Retailing Structural Violence, Lansdowne Lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, October 5, 2007.
2006
‘The Appeal of “Culture Talk” in Multicultural Canada,’presented at the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Palais de Congress, August 14, 2006.
‘Mediations of Otherness: The Canadian Print Media Landscape post 9/11,’ presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings, Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Toronto, York University, June 2, 2006.
Plenary presentation: ‘Reading Zidane: Race, Religion and Contesting Masculinities,’ North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Vancouver, November 1-4, 2006.
Keynote presentation: ‘Linking Gendered Violence(s): Representing Legitimate/Illegitimate Victims in the Media,’ Annual General Meeting of the Northern Ontario Association of Women’s Groups. Thunder Bay, Ontario, September 22, 2006.
‘Intersecting Violence: Race, Gender and Context,’presented at the Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises(CEETUM), and organized by the group on intersectionality, Université de Montréal, September 21, 2006.
‘Mediated Racism in a Multicultural Society: The Canadian Situation,’ presented at the Global Media Centre, University of Illinois, Southern Illinois, March 24, 2006.
2005
‘Imperial Feminism and Exclusion: Gendering the Nation’ presented at the Canadian Communications Association Meetings, Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, London, Ontario, June 2, 2005.
‘Gendered Narratives of War and the Imagined Community: An Analysis of The Globe and Mail post 9/11’ presented at the Racial Violence and the Colour Line of the New World Order conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, April 1-2, 2005.
Plenary Speaker, ‘Violence Against Marginalized Girls,’ Finding Common Ground 2005, Conference organized by the Ontario Women’s Directorate, Toronto, November 30, 2005.
Panel presentation on the Security Measures Act, organized by the National Film Board’s Citizenshift with Uberculture, ConcordiaUniversity, October 18, 2005.
‘The Future of Ethnicity and Media.’ Presentation delivered at the Ethnicity and Media in Canada Symposium organized by the Association for Canadian Studies, Toronto Metro Hall, Toronto, Ontario, March21, 2005.
2004
‘En-Gendering Terror: Racialized Representations in the Mainstream Canadian print media post 911’ presented at the Race, Racism and Empire conference, York University, Toronto, April 29-May 1, 2004.
‘Race, Text and the City’ with Ross Perigoe, at the Print and the City Conference, McGill University, Montreal, March 26, 2004.
‘Combining the Best of the East and the West: Hybridity, Race and Gender in Popular Television Programming,’ presented at the Active Heroines Study Day, convened by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, John Moore’s University, Liverpool, UK, February 14, 2004.
‘Bridging the Academic/Community Divide and Participatory Action Research,’ Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation andNetworking (CRACIN) Graduate Student Colloquium on Research Methods Video-Conference, October 29, 2004, Concordia.
Panel presentation on ‘The Media Monopoly,’ Media Democracy Day, organized by the Uber-culture collective, Concordia University, October 18, 2004.
Panel presentation on the Concordia Peace and Conflict Resolution Series, panel on Creating Social Change: Obstacles and Strategies, Concordia University, September 17, 2004.
‘Discourses of Denial: Uncovering Race, Gender & Violence in Canadian Society.’ Women’s House and Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, April 19, 2004
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2003
‘Gendered Racism in the Press,’ presented at the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Biennial Conference, October 5, 2003, Banff, Alberta.
‘Gendering Terror Post-9/11,’ presented on the ‘The Language of War’ panel, Canadian Communication Association Meetings, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, June 2, 2003, Halifax.
‘Current Understandings of Violence in the Lives of Girls and its Effects on Health,’ at the 3rd World Congress & Exposition on Child and Youth Health, May 11-14, 2003, Vancouver, BC. (With Helene Berman, Ashley Ward & Azmina Ladha).
‘Mapping Girlhoods’– Opening plenary presentation at the Transforming Spaces: Girlhood, Agency and Power. National conference organized by Power Camp National, Concordia University, McGill University, November 21-23, 2003, Montreal.
Closing plenary presentation on ‘Strategies of Solidarity and Resistance,’ at the Women and the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East. Peace and Conflict Resolution Series, Concordia University, November 23, 2003.
‘The Politics of Representation,’ National Film Board of Canada, Producers Meeting, Montreal, February 27, 2003.
2002
‘Un/Covering Race in Canadian Media Studies,’ presented at the Critical Race Scholarship & The University Conference, organized by the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE/UT, Toronto, April 25-27, 2002.
‘Walking the Hyphen: Mapping the Links between Social Cohesion and Violence in the Lives of Racialized Girls.’ Opening plenary of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Meetings, Congress 2002, Toronto, May 29, 2002.
‘Social Cohesion and the Media: Racialized Girls and the Mainstream Media,’ panel presentation on Intersecting Communities: Race, Gender and Audiences. Canadian Communications Association Meetings, Toronto, May 29, 2002.
‘Setting the Agenda: Working with Adolescent Immigrant and Refugee Girls,’ Keynote address at Over There and Over Here, organized by the Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGillUniversity, Montreal November 28, 2002.
Closing Plenary: Violence Against Women Symposium: Twenty Years After the Report, May 13-14, Vancouver, BC. National Conference organized by the Victim Assistance Division, Community Justice, Government of British Columbia, 2002.
2001
Jiwani, Yasmin, Jo-Anne Lee and Sunera Thobani. ‘The Lived Realities of Racialized Girls in Canada,’ presented at A New Girl Order, Young Women and the Future of Feminist Inquiry, Kings College, London, UK, November 14-16, 2001.
Jiwani, Yasmin withY. Zhao and Kate Rafter, ‘Mediated Sexism: Violence Against Women in theMedia,’ presented at the Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization International Conference, organized by the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and the Canadian Association of SexualAssault Centers, Ottawa, October 1-3, 2001.
‘The Lived Realities of Racialized Immigrant and Refugee Girls,’ The Lived Environments of Women and Girls, organized by theWomen’s Studies Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 4-7, 2001.