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TURBULENT CIRCULATION: Toward a Critical Logistics

University of Toronto, St. George Campus See workshop schedule for specific locations

A three-day workshop bringing together scholars and practitioners exploring the politics of circulation, infrastructure, and mobility. All events open to the public. Registration is required to attend workshops. To register, please email turbulentcirculation@gmail.com. Schedule GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY: Canadian Studies Program; Centre for the Study of the United States, at the Munk School of Global Affairs; Department […]

In the Spirit of Beth

Native Canadian Centre of Toronto 16 Spadina Road, Toronto, ON, Canada

You are invited to a public gathering to pay tribute to Beth Brant (Degonwadonti) - her life and her groundbreaking work.  Folks will be reading from some of her incredible writings, and we will be honouring Beth in the spirit that she honoured us. Barrier Free Space.  For more information, visit Facebook (facebook.com/Event - In […]

This One Summer – And Other Cool Things by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, New College, Toronto, Canada

To inaugurate the D.G. Ivey Library graphic novel collection, WGSI has invited Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki to come discuss their new graphic novel, This One Summer. To talk about the novel, and other things, we have a panel of University of Toronto faculty members, Judy Han, from Geography, Naomi Morgenstern from English, and Sarah […]

WGS Research Seminar – Tina Campt (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Director of the Africana Studies program, Barnard College)

D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, New College, Toronto, Canada

Diasporic Stasis and the Frequency of Black Refusal This talk takes what may seem a counter-intuitive proposition as its primary point of departure – that stasis is neither an absence nor a cessation of motion; it is a continual balancing of multiple forces. It theorizes stasis as motion held in taut suspension in ways that […]

WGS Research Seminar – Kamari Clarke (Global & International Studies and Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University) – Law at the Nexus of Politics:  Humanitarian Sentimentality in the Rule of Law Movement

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 100A Toronto, Canada

The #BringBackOurGirls hashtag that was popularized by politicians and celebrities in spring 2014 with global attention brought to the 200 school girls kidnapped by Muslim militants, Boko Haram. However, over the past year and a half there have been subsequent attacks killing thousands of victims.  The girls are still missing and the mass mobilization around […]

WGS Research Seminar – Kim Tallbear, University of Alberta – Molecular Death, Desire and Redface Reincarnation:  Indigenous Appropriation in the U.S.

D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, New College, Toronto, Canada

I trace simultaneous and related discourses of indigenous life and death (our ever-predicted vanishing) as these discourses and practices unfold in genome science and other cultural fields in which indigeneity is consumed for the benefit of settler-colonial society. Multiple, shifting definitions of indigeneity are co-constituted with diverse claims to biological and cultural patrimony. For half […]

WGS Research Seminar – Eve Tuck, OISE, Social Justice Education – Indigenous Feminist Theories of Change

JHB 100A, Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

This talk attends to Native feminist theories of change. I see these as compelling theories of compelling change: they are authored by Indigenous feminists, they consider change and land materially, and they move within Indigenous understandings of power and place.  I offer them to contest the colonial theories of change which over-determine what counts as […]

2016 Festival of Original Theatre: “Staging Realities”

The theme of FOOT 2016, Staging Reality, speaks to the blending of reality and artifice:  a blurring that has been receiving a great deal of academic attention in recent years, both in Canada and abroad.  This blurring breaks down distinctions between the roles of audience, critic, artist, activist, and academic, as the opinions of "real people" […]

Robert A. Hill – And Still We Rise: A New Generation of Black Students Arises for a New Time

Earth Sciences Centre - Room 1050 22 Russell Street, Toronto

  A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of the West Indies, Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at UCLA and Editor in Chief of the multivolume edition of The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, a multi-volume long-term research project of the James S. Coleman African Studies […]

Self-Care Workshop with Deb Singh

WGSI Lounge, Wilson Hall University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Feeling stressed about midterms, or relieved that they're finally over? Take a break with WGSSU and Deb Singh, a counselor and activist at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape. Join us for a conversation with Deb Singh to begin imagining and sustaining a practice of self care. Deb has been working with survivors of sexual […]