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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 […]

WGS Research Seminar – Tracy Robinson

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

Tracy Robinson, University of the West Indies, Social Justice Education - Loving Laws I and many others have been involved in strategic litigation in the English speaking Caribbean that challenges the constitutionality of laws criminalizing same-sex sex. Many of us rely heavily on reason, especially forms of legal reason, to question laws that criminalize same […]

Public Event – International Women’s Day Lecture – “Islands of Decolonial Love: Exploring Love on Occupied Land” – Leanne Simpson

OISE Auditorium 250 Bloor Street, Toronto, Canada

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6:00-8:00pm VENUE CHANGE - Due to an overwhelming response to this event, it will now take place at the OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, Ground Floor (St. George and Bloor), Accessible Space.  ASL will be provided. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is “a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her […]

Faculty of Arts and Science Plan Your Program Expo

Sidney Smith Lobby 100 St. George Street

Hello first year students! It’s time to think about selecting your programs of study! Whether you have already made your choice or are still deciding, you should attend the Faculty of Arts and Science Plan Your Program Expo!  At the Plan Your Program Expo, you’ll be able to: Discover your program options Introduce yourself to […]

Reparations, Reconciliation and the Politics of Memory – Film Screening & Discussion

OISE, Room 5-210 252 Bloor Street W.

Film Screening:  Human Traffic:  Past and Present A documentary exploring the realities and fallacies of human trafficking. Directed By:  Frances-Anne Solomon Discussion:  Dr. George DEI (SJE) on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Reparations and Memory RSVP:  laura.toth@utoronto.ca Presented by:  The Department of Social Justice Education (SJE), OISE/UT In collaboration with:  Caribbean Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies […]