Women and Revolution: The Art of Resistance in the Middle East
OISE Room 12-199 252 Bloor Street WestStudents enrolled in WGS340H1F have organized this lecture. Featured Speakers: Reem Farah, Roshanak Jaberi, Lida Shanehchian, Doris Rajan.
Students enrolled in WGS340H1F have organized this lecture. Featured Speakers: Reem Farah, Roshanak Jaberi, Lida Shanehchian, Doris Rajan.
“An accomplished motivational speaker and author of the graphic novel, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War. Michel grew up amid the terror of the Great War of Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Much of his childhood was ravaged by the death and decay of a war that claimed the […]
The Department of Political Science invites you to a plenary talk by: Frank B. Wilderson, III Plenary Talk 5:30 - 7:30 pm Workshop 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration is required for the Workshop only The talk: The expanding field of Afro-Pessimism elaborates a paradigmatic critique of the Human that reckons civil society’s perverse and parasitic […]
*Culture Shifts Presents... FREE Screening of Re:Orientations by Richard Fung A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven queer pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on a 1984 documentary in which they featured. How have they changed? And how has the world around them evolved and changed? In 1984, Richard Fung […]
Intersections Lectures, etc., The Political Ecology Working Group (Department of Geography and Planning), The Department of Anthropology, and The Women & Gender Studies Institute (University of Toronto), are pleased to announce the following lecture and workshop: Thinking with the Trouble: Human-Fish Relations, Reciprocity and the Petro-state in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta Dr. Zoe Todd (Department […]
Rinaldo Walcott, Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. This research seminar is being rescheduled. More details will be posted soon.
Please join us for an emergency town hall forum to address urgent questions regarding the US Executive Order (the so-called ‘Muslim Ban’) and its implications for the University community and for Canada. The Town Hall will address both the widespread and uneven implications of the order for the University’s staff, students, faculty, visitors, and families, […]
Chris Johnson (WGSI and Department of History, University of Toronto) Travel Sickness: Pan-Africanism, Medicine and Misogynoir in Interwar Caribbean Harlem Through a historical case study of Caribbean health activists in Harlem, this talk explores the persistence of patriarchy and misogynoir in black politics, and the suppression of bodily autonomy in visions, demands, and agendas for liberation. […]
WGSI in partnership with CSI and Working Women are hosting a screening of Deepa Mehta’s new film, Anatomy of Violence, and we are honoured that she will be in attendance. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
Kai M. Green is a shape-shifting Black Queer nerd Boi; An Afro-Future, freedom-dreaming, rhyme slinging dragon slayer in search of a new world. A scholar, poet, and filmmaker, Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity with specializations in Gender Studies and Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California. […]