The WGS Research Seminar is a forum for interdisciplinary research in feminist and gender studies. Directed at both faculty and graduate students within the WGSI and across the campus as a whole, the seminar’s goal is to foster intellectual engagement with key theoretical, social and political questions touching on gender and feminism and their many intersections through the presentation of cutting-edge work by leading researchers both within and beyond the University of Toronto.
All University of Toronto faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend these seminars. WGSI Master’s and Ph.D. students and graduate students enrolled in the WGS Collaborative Specialization are required to attend 80% of the research seminars. Please ensure that you sign the attendance sheet that is circulated at each seminar.
Upcoming Research Seminars
Previous Research Seminars
2024 Seminars
During the Winter 2024 term, the Women & Gender Studies Institute held a series of anniversary events in place of our Research Seminar.
To learn more about WGSI’s history, click here.
April 12-14, 2024
Unfinished Revolutions Conference
An international gathering, public forum, intellectual and political space to deliberate the unsettled questions of revolutions, revolts, rebellions, and resistance in our contemporary world.
April 11, 2024
Transnational Reflections on 50 Years of Development Alternatives
With: Sonia Correa, Fatou Sow, Ashwini Tambe, Peggy Antrobus and Claire Slatter
March 6, 2024
50 Years of WGSI Alumni: An International Women’s Day Panel
With: Pamela Uppal-Sandhu, Abinaya Balasubramaniam, Azrah Manji, Lesley Tarasoff, Jill Andrew, Sarah Edo, Chelsea Fung, Carita Wong, Amy Andrews Alexander, Lisa Gomes, Aida Jordao, Sheena Kitchemokman and Winnie Luk
February 28, 2024
50 Years of Feminism in the City
With: Anjula Gogia, Carolyn Egan, Angela Robertson, Judy Rebick, Dania Majid, Shree Paradkar, Eve Saint, Yusra Khogali and Yara Shoufani
January 31, 2024
50 Years of Women and Gender Studies at UofT
With: Shahrzad Mojab, Nael Bhanji, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Angie Fazekas, Casey Mecija, Rinaldo Walcott, Mary Nyquist, Joan Simalchik, Mary-Kay Bachour and Connie Guberman
2023 Seminars
November 15, 2023
In Consideration of “The Sacred:” Reflections on Purity, Traditionalism and Futures
With: Vanessa Watts
October 4, 2023
Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams for “Atmospheres and Afterlives”
With: SA Smythe
April 13, 2023 | Doctoral Presentations: Ryan Persadie, Binta Bajaha, Hazal Halavut, Ferdinand M. Lopez
2022 Seminars
March 30, 2022
Reimagining Disciplinarity when Radical Studies Converge
Conversation with: Roderick Ferguson; Ann Cvetkovich; and Gayatri Gopinath
Hosted by: Rinaldo Walcott, M. Murphy, Robert Diaz
This webinar was not recorded
March 9, 2022
IWD Lecture with Tara Houska
Defend the Sacred: Reconnection is Resistance
March 4, 2022
Book Launch | Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Conversation with: Nicole Charles, Deborah Thomas, Vanessa Agard-Jones
January 19, 2022
Feminist Generations: A Conversation with Selma James, Margaret Prescod and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
2021 Seminars
December 3, 2021
Book Launch | Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
With: Tami Navarro
November 24, 2021
An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Molly Cross-Blanchard and Canisia Lubrin
Followed by a discussion and Q&A facilitated by: Judith Taylor & Rinaldo Walcott
October 27, 2021
The Banker Ladies and the Future of Economic Cooperation
With: Caroline Shenaz Hossein
September 22, 2021
Celebrating Margrit Eichler
With remarks by: Shahrzad Mojab, June Larkin, M. Murphy, Marylee Stephenson and Soheila Pashang