Women and Gender Studies Institute
Join the Women and Gender Studies Institute; New College; African Studies; and Caribbean Studies for the launch of Mary Nyquist's book Wet Toes. A former faculty member and director of WGSI, Mary Nyquist has participated in both Caribbean and African Studies. She is an award-winning scholar of early modern literature, Euro-colonialism, and Atlantic slavery. Though […]
NEW DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 2023 Click here to RSVP The event will include a moderated talk with the authors, a poetry performance by Canisia Lubrin and books will be sold on site by Another Story Bookshop. About the Book Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between […]
Join the WGS 435: Gender, Sexuality and Nuclear Colonialism class for a Screening of Radiation, A Slow Death: A generation of Hibakusha, Director Hitomi Kamanaka's award winning film March 2, 2023 | 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Join the International Women’s Day Lecture about Feminist Politics & Structural Change In an Era of Authoritarian Resurgence with Dr. Elena Ruiz on Zoom March 8, 2023 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm Register Here
Join the WGSI for a screening of Ryan Persadie's short film "Gyal," followed by a moderated talk. March 15, 2023 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm The talk following the screening will be moderated by Ryan Persadie; with speakers: Aruna Boodram, Suzanne Narain, Marisa Rosa Grant & Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele RSVP Here
Join us on Saturday April 1st for a Black Feminist discussion of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: A Musical Reimagining. Originally written by Scott Joplin, Treemonisha (c. 1911) is one of the few classical music pieces about the immediate post-slavery era written by a Black person who actually lived through it. In Joplin's sonically hybrid Treemonisha, many of the […]
NEW DATE: April 19, 2023 | RSVP Here The event will include a moderated talk with the authors, and books will be sold on site by Another Story Bookshop. About the Book Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means […]
Join us for a free screening of Karin Lee’s Incorrigible: A Film About Velma Demerson on May 13, 2023, at 3 PM located at Innis Hall, University of Toronto’s downtown campus. Following the screening will be a panel bringing together the illustrious voices of KARIN LEE, writer and director; LISA MAR, associate professor for the Department of History at the University of Toronto; […]
In order to attend the conference via Zoom or in person, please email us at tos2023conference@gmail.com. The final schedule will be available later in April. Check our blog https://othersisters.hypotheses.org/ Throughout Christian history, there have been groups of women who lived recognizably religious lives but outside of traditional monastic structures. Despite leaving a substantial documentary and (in some cases) visual […]