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We Are The Land – Workshop: Glyphing Decolonial Love in Tkaronto

Wilson Hall Lounge 40 Willcocks Street, New College, Wilson Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This workshop invites community members, activists, organizers, and those interested in the potentials of mapping- to turn our intentions towards the land and be generative about how we are in love with our futures. What does it mean, perhaps to map kinstillatory futures? Special  Guests: Karyn Recollet, Jaime Black, Maika Harper, Nazbah Tom, and Jenny […]

We Are The Land – Public Workshop/Activation

Philosopher's Walk, University of Toronto

Jaime Black and the graduate students in Indigenous Decolonial Aesthetics WGSI 1025 will be showcasing a new piece of performance art. More details to come! (This performance is located outdoors) This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table. ASL services will be provided.    

WGS Research Seminar

CANCELLED Toronto, Canada

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Rinaldo Walcott, Director of  Women and Gender Studies Institute and Associate Professor (OISE), University of Toronto University of Toronto Black Movements: Lampedusa, Black Lives Matter and Reorienting Freedom This paper works with a doubled notion of movement to link Black  migrations and Black contemporary political movements. In the paper,  I […]

We Are The Land – Closing Gathering

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Closing Gathering/Reception for Jaime Black's Artist Residency: We Are The Land. (Featuring: Provocations & responses to the past week’s events, Silent Auction, Indigenous artisans/vendors, food from Tea & Bannock, and more) This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table. ASL services will be provided.  

Red Africa – A lecture by Mark Nash

Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

RED AFRICA:  Contemporary Artists' Response to The Legacy of Cultural Relationships between Africa, The Soviet Union, and related countries during the Cold War A Lecture by Mark Nash To be immediately followed by a book launch of Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016) in Innis Cafe BIO Mark Nash […]

Isaac Julien: Artist Talk

Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

You are cordially invited to attend this rare opportunity to hear world-renowned artist/filmmaker Isaac Julien discuss his body of work and his recent installation Isaac Julien: Other Destinies, currently on exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. Known for his poetic and visually encompassing narratives, Julien’s oeuvre addresses issues of globalization, mobilities,  and displacement within a geopolitical aesthetic […]

Fifty Years ‘Beyond Vietnam’: Dr. King’s Revolutionary Dream Against Our Neoliberal/Neofascist Nightmare

Bloor United Church 300 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

Please join us for a public lecture with: Robin D.G. Kelley Professor Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History , UCLA Author of Hammer and Hoe; Race Rebels; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern […]

Robin D.G. Kelley & Fred Moten In Conversation

Great Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

Robin D.G. Kelley Professor & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History , UCLA Fred Moten Professor, Department of English, UC Riverside Northrop Frye Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto Moderated by: Rinaldo Walcott - Director, WGSI & Afua Cooper - James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University All talks are wheelchair accessible […]

WGS Research Seminar

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

Ph.D. students in the Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies present their doctoral research. WGSI 2017 Doctoral Research Seminar Program

Queer Political Theologies

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

A Colloquium organized by Ricky Varghese, David K. Seitz, and Fan Wu  This colloquium uses the idiom of political theology – the notion that so-called “secular” political forms of life simultaneously inherit, reconfigure and extend profoundly spiritual, psychical and visceral investment in authority as sacred – as a departure point for a more wide-ranging conversation […]