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The VIEW to the U podcast, featuring Professor Kristen Bos

On this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Kristen Bos from UTM’s Department of Historical Studies talks about her research on Indigenous feminisms, with among other things, considers the […]

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Book Launch of Virgin Capital with Tami Navarro

Register here. December 3, 2021 @ noon Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto invites you to join us at the Book Launch of Virgin Capital with Tami Navarro Virgin […]

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Turning the Tables on Research: A Q&A with Kristen Bos of U of T’s Technoscience Research Unit

In 2019, the Environmental Data Justice Lab at UofT’s Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) released their project Pollution Reporter. It’s a mobile app that offers community members in the Aamjiwnaang First Nation—and […]

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June Larkin reflects on three decades of teaching with the Women & Gender Studies Institute

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Congratulations Dr. Aarzoo Singh Thesis Blurb/abstract: My dissertation was an interdisciplinary study into unheard narratives of the 1947 Partition of India as they inform legacies of trauma, violence, and displacement […]

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Innovative A&S faculty and student-led courses ignited popular demand for women’s studies program 50 years ago at U of T

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh (centre) leading a women’s studies class at U of T in 1975.
Photo credit: University of Toronto Archives/ Robert Lansdale.

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20 books by Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day 2021

Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of slavery across the British Empire on Aug. 1. On that historic day in 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect, freeing more than […]

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Congratulations to Binta Bajaha

Binta is the recipient of a SSHRC award from 2021-2024 for her proposed dissertation of “The Sacrificial Realities of Climate Change- Interrogating Intersectional Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Agency in the Sahel”. […]

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OBITUARY – Margrit Eichler – Friend, mentor, scholar, activist, adventurer (1942 – 2021)

Margrit Eichler, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, passed away in Toronto on July 8, 2021. Born in Berlin, Germany, 28 September 1942, Margrit attended the University of Goettingen (1962-65), and the Free […]

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Meet PhD Student Ryan Persadie

For U of T student Ryan Persadie every day is a performance, even when he’s not wearing a wig as his persona, Tifa Wine. Watch video here.