Graduate Student Research Symposium
WGSI 2053 40 Willcocks, Toronto, Select a Country:Former Master’s and current Ph.D. students present their research to the incoming graduate student cohort. The event takes place on Thursday, September 3, 2015.
Former Master’s and current Ph.D. students present their research to the incoming graduate student cohort. The event takes place on Thursday, September 3, 2015.
All WGSI graduate students who are teaching in WGSI for the first time should attend this training session. It focuses on pedagogical issues arising in classes in women and gender studies. This event takes place on Friday, September 4, 2015. We strongly recommend that you attend.
The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) offers an orientation to graduate work at the University of Toronto on Tuesday, September 8, 2015. This is an opportunity to meet other graduate students from other units. For details, go to the SGS website. Select “Orientation".
Casey Mecija and Vivek Shraya share their films, My Father, Francis and Holy Mother My Mother. These films explore the complex relationships between queer diasporic children and their parents. Both are tributes to the often unrecognized labour of immigrant parents. This event is generously sponsored and supported by: the Women & Gender Studies Institute, Canadian […]
Please join us on Thursday, September 24, 4-6, Innis College rm. 222. for a talk by Professor Rebecca Wanzo, who is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University, St. Louis. Her first book was *The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling* which asks important […]
What does social justice sex education look like? What does it do? How does it work? What happens when you cross a graphic novel with a sex education book for 10 year olds? Come join us for a lively discussion about Sex Is a Funny Word (Seven Stories Press, 2015) the sequel to What Makes […]
“Black+Queer+Human: A Conversation” is a one-day symposium that attends to the present urgency of critical conversations from a queer perspective on black life and its complexity across space, place and time. Black+Queer+Human foregrounds and is deeply invested in pushing the parameters of how black politics, culture and everyday life, based on gender, sexuality, queerness and […]
Collective intelligence and preparation: a story of running away An old story of running away is retold and the question of what happens if really there isn’t any new information to report, the runaways ate their fake papers resolving to Own nothing! and the first-person accounts are still missing? Will this old story that cannot […]
As a student of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, you’ve been invited to attend a dinner with alumni from WGSI and a select group of students on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 at the University’s Faculty Club at 5:30pm. This intimate meal bring together alumni, faculty and students from the same discipline and fosters a […]
A three-day workshop bringing together scholars and practitioners exploring the politics of circulation, infrastructure, and mobility. All events open to the public. Registration is required to attend workshops. To register, please email turbulentcirculation@gmail.com. Schedule GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY: Canadian Studies Program; Centre for the Study of the United States, at the Munk School of Global Affairs; Department […]