Women and Gender Studies InstituteAfiya 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Diasporic Feminisms Workshop Program Sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto; Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga; Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto; Geography and Planning at Queen’s University and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; South Bank University, London, UK; Institute […]
The WGSI PhD Collaborative Students present their research.
Another Story Bookshop and Haymarket Books present the Toronto launch for Naomi Klein's "Battle for Paradise: Resisting Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico" Featuring a panel discussion with Naomi Klein and Anwar Knight moderated by Rinaldo Walcott. Sponsored by WGSI, University of Toronto Proceeds go to Barbuda Silent No More & JunteGente Admission: $10 suggested […]
This is a day-long orientation for teaching assistants offered by TATP. Attending this training is optional, but helpful, especially if you’re already in Toronto at this time. Registration for the event will open via the TATP website as of summer 2018.
This is an opportunity to meet other graduate students from other units. For details, go to the SGS website.
