Women and Gender Studies Institute
The event will feature a reading by Randa Jarrar and will be hosted by CBC journalist Pacinthe Mattar. Randa Jarrar’s stories grapple with love, loss, displacement, and survival in a collection that moves seamlessly between real- ism and fable, history and the present. With humor, irony, and boundless imagination, Jarrar brings to life a memorable […]
A gathering/workshop that will be held at York University (Founder Assembly Hall, Room FC152) that seeks to: Explore the similarities and difference in the migration histories, life trajectories, and experiences of (un)settlement and (un)belonging of different groups of Filipino im/migrants in the Unites States and Canada. Examine a range of community-engaged research projects across Canada. Panel of Speakers: […]
Students enrolled in WGS340H1F have organized this lecture. Featured Speakers: Reem Farah, Roshanak Jaberi, Lida Shanehchian, Doris Rajan.
“An accomplished motivational speaker and author of the graphic novel, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War. Michel grew up amid the terror of the Great War of Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Much of his childhood was ravaged by the death and decay of a war that claimed the […]
The Department of Political Science invites you to a plenary talk by: Frank B. Wilderson, III Plenary Talk 5:30 - 7:30 pm Workshop 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration is required for the Workshop only The talk: The expanding field of Afro-Pessimism elaborates a paradigmatic critique of the Human that reckons civil society’s perverse and parasitic […]
*Culture Shifts Presents... FREE Screening of Re:Orientations by Richard Fung A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven queer pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on a 1984 documentary in which they featured. How have they changed? And how has the world around them evolved and changed? In 1984, Richard Fung […]
Intersections Lectures, etc., The Political Ecology Working Group (Department of Geography and Planning), The Department of Anthropology, and The Women & Gender Studies Institute (University of Toronto), are pleased to announce the following lecture and workshop: Thinking with the Trouble: Human-Fish Relations, Reciprocity and the Petro-state in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta Dr. Zoe Todd (Department […]
Rinaldo Walcott, Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. This research seminar is being rescheduled. More details will be posted soon.
Please join us for an emergency town hall forum to address urgent questions regarding the US Executive Order (the so-called ‘Muslim Ban’) and its implications for the University community and for Canada. The Town Hall will address both the widespread and uneven implications of the order for the University’s staff, students, faculty, visitors, and families, […]
Chris Johnson (WGSI and Department of History, University of Toronto) Travel Sickness: Pan-Africanism, Medicine and Misogynoir in Interwar Caribbean Harlem Through a historical case study of Caribbean health activists in Harlem, this talk explores the persistence of patriarchy and misogynoir in black politics, and the suppression of bodily autonomy in visions, demands, and agendas for liberation. […]