Book Launch: Rehearsals for Living – Robyn Maynard & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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

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 […]

Incorrigible: A Film About Velma Demerson

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

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; […]

International Conference: The Other Sister: New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800)

Online via Zoom

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 […]

Keyboard Fantasies: Celebrating the Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland

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

Throughout a fifty year recording career, Beverly Glenn-Copeland's music has defied categorisation and genre, its only consistency being the fusion of vision, technology, spirituality and place. A Black, trans artist, he is a strong advocate on behalf of Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ2S+ communities in Canada and abroad, and has influenced new generations of artists. You […]

Indo-Caribbean Women Past and Present: A Panel Presentation and Moderated Discussion

Gardiner Museum 111 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario

This panel will address the broad scope of Indo-Caribbean women’s lived experiences in the social, political, and cultural realms from the time of indentureship, through times of resistance in the 1960s to present day. Each panelist will respond to the exhibition, Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories. Ramabai Espinet will reflect on the jahaji legacies of “Coolie Belles” […]

The Thirteenth International Milton Symposium

University of Toronto

The Thirteenth International Milton Symposium will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada, 10-14 July 2023. The Symposium looks forward to welcoming scholars from across the world for five days of lively discussion and convivial exchanges.

BOOK LAUNCH | Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean

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

Join the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto for the launch of Nikoli Attai's book "Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean." The event will include a panel discussion between Dr. Nikoli Attai, Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best, Assistant Professor, Faculty […]

WGSI ORIENTATION EVENT | Bubble Tea Social

WGSI Lounge, Wilson Hall University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join the WGSI on September 20th for a bubble tea social where you can learn about our department, the courses we are offering and get a FREE BUBBLE TEA! Make sure to stop by early before we run out!

WGSI ORIENTATION EVENT | Reading Café with Therapy Dogs

D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, New College, Toronto, Canada

The WGSI is partnering with the D.G. Ivey Library and Sunshine Therapy Dogs to bring all you book, dog and gender studies lovers the event of your dreams! If you are interested in learning about some of the readings sprinkled throughout the WGSI’s undergraduate course syllabi, stop by the D.G. Ivey Library. Pups will be […]

Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture

Maanjiwe nendamowinan Room MN 3230 (3rd floor) The Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, Ontario

REGISTER HERE Public lecture with speakers Dr. Odette Casamayor-Cisneros and Dr. Cary García-Yero moderated by Dr. Pablo Herrera-Veitia Tuessday, October 3, 2023 | 1-3pm Maanjiwe nendamowinan Room MN 3230 (3rd floor) | The Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) UTM, 1535 Outer Circle Mississauga, ON Exclusions and Resurgence in Latin America and the Caribbean | Sponsored by […]