Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

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

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 […]

Against Islamophobia Panel Discussion

280N York Lanes, York University South 674 Ross Building, York University, Toronto

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 […]

Panel Discussion and Book Launch – Andrea Ritchie

William Doo Auditorium, New College 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C6, Canada, Toronto

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

Book Launch – “This Wound is a World” by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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

Please join us to celebrate the launch of:  “This Wound is a World” by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Ph.D. student, University of Alberta) Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation) is a Rhodes scholar, named one of the 6 Indigenous writers to watch by CBC Books in 2016.  Belcourt’s worldings are as loving as they are necessary to this space/ […]

Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries Book launch 

This groundbreaking collection brings together artists, scholars, and community members as they reflect on the contributions of LGBTQ Filipinos/as to Canadian culture and society. This launch will feature performances, reflections, and community dialogues focused on the role of art in pursuing social change. PERFORMANCES BY:  Pantayo, Sofonda Cox, Vachina Dynasty, Ms. Nookie Galore (Patrick Salvani), and Sean […]

WGS Research Seminar

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

Afiya S. Zia, Sessional Lecturer at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. She is a feminist researcher-scholar and activist with a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from the University of York, UK. She is author of ‘Sex Crime in the Islamic Context’, 1994 (ASR, Lahore). Afiya has edited a series of books, […]

WGS Research Seminar

University College, Room UC 240 15 King's College Circle

Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America and Beyond Disobedient listening – or listening against – is a method to denaturalize tropes surrounding popular music and its study. Disobedient listening requires a phonographic approach, one that attends to where the sonic, visual, literary, and bodily intersect. Disobedient listening not only aims to uncover cultural truths or […]

MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism

William Doo Auditorium, New College 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C6, Canada, Toronto

Please join the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto for a two-day International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism”, March 22nd and 23rd, 2018. Scholars, academics, researchers, feminist activists, gender rights advocates, public intellectuals, and new media activists will come together to discuss and examine how women in […]

MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism

University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Please join the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto for a two-day International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism”, March 22nd and 23rd, 2018. Scholars, academics, researchers, feminist activists, gender rights advocates, public intellectuals, and new media activists will come together to discuss and examine how women in […]