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

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 […]

Christina Sharpe is associate professor in the Department of English and Programs in Africana, American, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Tufts University. Her book, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, was published in 2010 by Duke University Press. Her current book project is titled In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. She has recently […]

The Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto and Glad Day Bookshop present: “Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low” by Dr. C. Riley Snorton. Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not […]