Women and Gender Studies Institute
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 […]
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 This public lecture and dialogue with the wider Toronto community will focus on the precarious youth at the Haja Center (the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture) and their survival […]
Unfortunately Prof. Makalani is ill and will not be able to make this presentation. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Prof. Minkah Makalani University of Texas at Austin will present "A Place of Abomination": C.L.R. James, the Erotics of the Tent, and an Unimaginable Caribbean Future. Sponsored by WGSI
Women of Rojava: Dreams, Resistance and Challenges Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Shahrzad Mojab (OISE) who will speak on “Women of Rojava: Dreams, Resistance and Challenges.” Dr. Walid Saleh (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) and Dr. Jens Hanssen (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) will be the discussants.
Manal Hamzeh from the University of New Mexico, Las Cruces will present "Egyptian Women's Testimonios: Resisting Violence/Seeking Justice" While Egyptian women were/are major shapers of the Jan 25th Revolution, this talk will explore how their embodied experiences were/are both central sites of violence and revolutionary resistance in the post-Mubarak militarist and Islamist regimes. In this […]
Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers and activists focusing on contemporary issues concerning women in the Middle East. Meet the speakers: Sharifa Sharif is an Afghan–Canadian feminist author who has worked in the areas of adult education, women and development, community development, journalism and politics in Kabul, Canada, India and Prague. Manal […]