Name: Research Seminar: Durba Mitra
Start: 2026-09-28T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-28T18:00:00-04:00
Location: William Doo Auditorium

November 2025
Your Villain Origin Story in Environmental Injustice

November 26, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Guest Speaker: Skw'akw'as (Sunshine) Dunstan-Moore, (she/her) RSVP at uoft.me/gei-nov26-1 Exploring the systemic injustices embedded in the climate and environmental movement, this lecture examines how well-intentioned actions can perpetuate harm. Through my own “villain origin story,” we will reimagine climate action that is truly just and equitable, deconstructing institutions, policies, and individual roles through an anti-colonial, intersectional, and feminist […]
Radical Love as Method: Building Community and Reimagining Climate Activism

November 26, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

371 Bloor Street West, Room FE230

Guest speaker: Miha Isik, researcher at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), founder of OK Youth! The Gender and Environmental (In)Justice Lecture Series is funded and supported by the New College Initiatives Fund and the Women & Gender Studies Institute of the University of Toronto.
February 2026
Research Seminar: Genevieve Clutario

February 4 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Canada

WGSI Research Seminar | Genevieve Clutario Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 Feb 4, 2026 | 4pm - 5:30pm EST | William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street, New College RSVP here
March 2026
2026 International Women’s Day Lecture with Megan Scribe

March 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Canada

The Power of Indigenous Women's Advocacy In this talk, Scribe offers a genealogy of Indigenous women's political advocacy at the intersection of gender-based and sexual violence and settler colonialism in the Canadian context. Dr. Megan Scribe (Ininiw iskwew, Norway House Cree Nation) is an interdisciplinary Indigenous feminist researcher, writer, and educator. Scribe is an Associate […]
Listening Otherwise: Feminist Approaches to Music Education – Book Launch

March 24 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Canada

Join us for the celebratory launch of the Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education. Register here In these dark global times, feminist voices and musical practices feel more essential than ever. We invite you to gather in person for the launch of The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education, a new edited volume that brings together […]
WGS460: Honours Seminar Research Showcase

March 26 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Wilson Hall, Room 2053 40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C6, Canada

Join Dr. Wafaa Hasan and the students of WGS460, the Women and Gender Studies Honours Seminar for a presentation of their research. No registration required, attendance is on a drop-in basis. Light refreshments will be served.
April 2026
Therapy Dog Reading Café

April 2 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, New College, Toronto, Canada
Book Launch: The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

April 20 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book launch with the author Leopoldina Fortunati “The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s.” Monday, April 20, 5 PM Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Student Commons, 4th floor 140 St. George street Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of […]
September 2026
WGSI Undergraduate Orientation

September 16 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

WGSI Lounge, New College 40 Willcocks, Toronto

Join WGSI for our Undergraduate Orientation! All undergrads in our programs or taking WGSI courses are welcome! This is a drop-in event, so come by whenever you can. There will be some brief remarks at 4PM and a raffle at 4:30 (this is your chance to win some WGSI swag…). There will also be games […]
Research Seminar: Durba Mitra

September 28 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Canada

The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism This talk offers a glimpse into the vast intellectual history of Third World feminisms in the decolonizing world in the 1970s and 1980s. I critically engage the possibilities and limits of the feminist epistemological revolution that emerged in the fractured aftermath of an […]

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