Women and Gender Studies InstituteThe Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women to be held in Toronto on May 22 – 25, 2014. The University of Toronto is hosting the first Canadian “Big Berks” in collaboration with co-sponsoring units and universities in Toronto and across Canada. WGSI is a co-sponsor
Please join the WGSI Community Knowledge Alliance event No More Silence, Families of Sisters in Spirit, the Native Youth Sexual Health Networks & Sarah Hunt, Tanya Kappo, Monica Forrester and Maryanne Pearce on Community-Based Responses to Violence. The event will take place on May 24 at 5:30 pm at The Native Canadian Center of Toronto, […]
International Conflict Feminism: The Hazards of Dating the Security Council Over the last two decades, there has been huge momentum in efforts to recognize women’s experience of war, and strengthen the international law and policy responses that are triggered. These responses include a decade of Security Council resolutions related to women and armed conflict, feminist […]
Regarding Ruins: State-phobic Speculations and Neoliberal Legends Contemporary apocalypse films conduct a neoliberal pedagogy. By privileging a survivalist’s perspective on ruined landscapes, they teach ways of speculating on undone spaces as risky but potentially profitable sites of economic and affective investment. These visions of social collapse channel both “weak state” and “strong state” fantasies, simultaneously […]
WGSSU is proud to present part 1 of our WGSSU Wednesday series: “Teen Mom I.R.L: The Social Determinants of Health & Lifting The Veil of Stigma Surrounding Teen Sexual Health, Pregnancy and Parenting in Toronto.” Come out, engage and participate in our lively discussion on teenage pregnancy, young families, health issues, stigmas, and myths. This […]
Thursday, October 23, 5:30-8:30, OISE/UT, Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor OPENING DIALOGUE: Imagining Possibilities Shahrzad Arshadi Farnoosh Moshiri Friday, October 24, 7:00-9:00pm, Beit Zatoun It is Only Sound that Remains A Play by Shahrzad Arshadi Saturday, October 25, 6:00-8:30, OISE/UT, Room 5-240 Reading from Fiction on Prison Farnoosh Moshiri There is a Garden A Film by […]
Time: Wednesday, OCTOBER 29th from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Location: WGSI Lounge, Wilson Hall, New College, 2nd Floor above the New College Library, 40 Willcocks Street. If you are graduating next year and planning on applying to graduate school, please come out and learn what scholarships are available to you, the criteria for applying, and how to […]
Aboriginal Studies, the Women & Gender Studies Institute, the Department of History and Anthropology (UTSG), and Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC) present: Professor Mary Jane McCallum, Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg Indian Placement and Relocation: Post-War Indian Affairs Urban Employment Programming - The "Placement and Relocation Programme" of the Department of Indian […]
THE RETURN OF KHULEKANI KHUMALO, ZOMBIE CAPTIVE: Identity, Law, and Paradoxes of Personhood in the Postcolony What might imposture tell us about personhood in ‘postcolonial’ times? About the means of producing selfhood, gender, identity, social viability? While the figure of the false double has long haunted Western ideas of personhood, imposture of various kinds has […]
Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series Co-Presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea Haejoang Cho, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University, will be speaking as a 'native anthropologist' about her whirlwind journey experiencing South Korea's compressed modernity since the 1980's. The discussion begins with the recent 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster in […]