We respectfully acknowledge  the land on which we are gathering is the unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands including the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations. 

Harbour Centre, November 18th and 19th 2022

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Interactions, Exchanges, and Transformations: European Legal Traditions and their Impact on the Construction of Gender in a Global Context is an interdisciplinary and cross cultural exploration designed to investigate the complexities and tensions that lay at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and the law from antiquity to the present. This conference is a collaborative project of three research universities in British Columbia: Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Northern British Columbia. It brings together an international group of emerging and established scholars in Vancouver to explore interactions between Europe and the world in relation to the development and transformation of law and gender constructs across time and space, highlighting the ways in which they intersected with race, class, and religion.

The meeting in Vancouver is the 11th conference of the international network Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures. For more information about this group, see: Network

Organizing Committee

Evdoxis Doxiadis, Department of History, Simon Fraser University

John Christopoulos, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia