Governance in Toronto . Sylvia Bashevkin
Being Mayor in Toronto . Barbara Hall
Cities Centre . University of Toronto
Thursday September 27 2012
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Being Mayor in Toronto
Event date: Thursday, September 27, 2012, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 103
CITIES CENTRE’S GOVERNANCE IN TORONTO LECTURE SERIES
Being Mayor in Toronto
Speakers:
Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission, and former mayor of Toronto, and Sylvia Bashevkin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Moderator:
Shauna Brail, Director of the Experiential Learning Program and Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies Program, Innis College, University of Toronto
Barbara Hall has more than 40 years of experience as a community worker, lawyer and municipal politician. She served three terms as a Toronto city councillor from 1985 on and as Toronto’s mayor from 1994 to 1997. From 1998 to 2002 she headed the Canadian government’s National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention.
She was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Province of Ontario’s Human Rights Commission in 2005. She is currently President of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA), a network that brings together Canada’s territorial, provincial and federal human rights agencies to protect, promote and advance human rights across the country.
Ms. Hall has also practised criminal and family law, been a member of the Province of Ontario Health Ministry’s Health Results Team, and lectured nationally and internationally on urban and social issues. She has extensive experience on non-profit boards and committees, and has a strong record of bringing diverse groups together to build safe and strong communities.
Sylvia Bashevkin served in 2005-2011 as Principal of University College in the University of Toronto. She is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Best known for her research contributions in the field of women and politics, Bashevkin served in 1993-4 as President of the Canadian Political Science Association and in 2003-4 as President of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. She is a senior fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sylvia Bashevkin is the author of Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009), Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (UBC Press, 2006); Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (University of Toronto Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002); Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1998); Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1993); True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 1991); and Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985), as well as numerous journal articles and chapters in books.