No More Silence – Decolonizing Solidarity

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

Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Zainab Amadahy, Chanelle Gallant, and special guest Kerieva McCormick (Glasgow based Romani activist). Sponsored by the Women & Gender Studies Institute. Lunch and children's activities provided.

University of Toronto Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATP)

Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George Street - Room 1160, Toronto

This is a day-long orientation for teaching assistants offered by TATP.  Attending this training is optional. REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL.  

School of Graduate Studies Orientation

JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Room 2158 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) offers an orientation to graduate work at the University of Toronto.  This is an opportunity to meet graduate students from other units. You need to register for this event.    

WGSI Orientation for Incoming M.A. and Ph.D. Students

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

Program orientation for incoming WGSI M.A. and Ph.D. students.  At this session, you will meet your fellow incoming students and some faculty.  We will also review program requirements, course registration, the funding package and upcoming events at WGSI.

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Wilson Hall, Room 2053, New College 40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Former MA and current Ph.D. students in Women and Gender Studies present their research to the incoming graduate student cohort. Event program will be posted soon.

WGSI TA Training

Wilson Hall, Room 2053, New College 40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This training is for WGSI TA's who are teaching for the first time.  The training will focus on pedagogical issues arising in Women and Gender Studies classes.

Book Launch – Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning

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

Please join us for the launch of a new book, Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning edited by Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean and Angela Failler (University of Alberta Press, 2017). The launch will include commentary by the editors and presentations by contributors including Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Surrey Poet Laureate. The book will be available for purchase. […]

Michelle Murphy’s Book Launch – The Economization of Life

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Michelle Murphy’s book, The Economization of Life (Duke University Press 2017).  This is Michelle’s third single-authored book but only her first launch! To kick-off the TRU’s 2017-18 events, many of her peers and collaborators want to celebrate her latest achievement, and to honor her as a colleague, […]

Water Is Life (But Many Can’t Drink It)

Convocation Hall, University of Toronto 31 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

Please GET YOUR TICKETS HERE and join us for: World Premiere of 'Boozhoo Manoomin' A suite inspired by manoomin harvest composed and performed by Beverley McKiver featuring Melody McKiver 'Cultivating Resistance and Lighting the Eighth Fire: Challenging the Fossil Fuel Industry and Restoring Anishinaabe Economics' a talk by Winona LaDuke Winona LaDuke in conversation with members of the Onaman Collective: Erin-Marie […]

WGS Research Seminar – Professor Hae Yeon Choo

Room 2007D, Wilson Hall, New College, 40 Willcocks Street

Talk title: Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea Talk Abstract: Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be victims of trafficking. Moving beyond […]