Women and Gender Studies InstituteThis 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.
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Queer Orientation is an annual tri-campus week-long series of events that provides opportunities for new and returning students, staff and faculty to make connections, engage in activities and have discussions related to LGBTQ+ communities. For more information, go to the Sexual & Gender Diversity Office (SGDO) website.
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 […]
Title: Fear and Loathing in Gringo Gulch: Gender, sexuality, and lifestyle migration Description: This talk begins with a discussion of the key political, theoretical, and methodological ideas that inform my book, Gringo Gulch: Sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica. Focusing on the experiences of sex tourists, sex workers, and state employees, the book considers how the […]
The Women & Gender Studies Institute and Caribbean Studies Program present: Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Peter Hudson and Naomi Klein in Conversation. Peter James Hudson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies who works at the intersection of US history and African Diaspora and Caribbean cultural studies. Peter James […]
Decolonial Strategies for Anti-Islamophobia Education Dr. Jasmin Zine is a Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has developed international guidelines for educators and policy-makers on combating Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims. Dr. Zine is affiliated with the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at U.C Berkeley and serves on the editorial board of the critical Muslim Studies […]
ANDREA J. RITCHIE author of INVISIBLE NO MORE Featuring a panel discussion with Andrea Ritchie; Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present; and Beverly Bain, Faculty in Women & Gender Studies-UTM Event Sponsors: Another Story Bookshop, WGS-UTM, WGSI, CW