Join the virtual book launch for Rinaldo Walcott's ON PROPERTY on Thursday, February 25th at 7 PM EST. Rinaldo Walcott will be joined in conversation by Beverly Bain and Idil Abdillahi. Tune in live for a discussion, reading, and a Q&A. You could win a copy of the book! The event will be streamed on […]

Register here. This virtual International Women’s Day event brings together three passionate community-based activists in conversation to explore being antiracism feminist activists. Funded by the Women’s and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) Community Knowledge Alliance Fund, and hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Dept. Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough. Speakers: Beverly […]

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kama La Mackerel who will read from their new book ZOM-FAM (2020, Metonymy Press). Register here. Kama La Mackerel is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama’s […]

Join webinar here.  Title: "Chloe Cooley: Enslavement in Ontario, Settler Colonialism, Objectification, and Resistance." Afua Cooper is an award-winning scholar, artist and activist whose research on slavery, abolition, freedom, Black education, and women studies across Canada has made her a leading figure in African Canadian studies. Her book, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story […]

Join Zoom Webinar here Title: Visualizing Colonial Violence with Indigenous Feminisms, Chemicals and Seed Beads  Kristen Bos is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with a graduate appointment in Women and Gender Studies Institute. Professor Bos is the Co-Director of the Technoscience […]

Keynote Talk: Dr. Ciann Wilson (Wilfred Laurier University) “The Diary of an Emerging Black Scholar”  Performance: SExT (Sex Education by Theatre) Student and Community Youth Presentations Register here.  For Questions/Information Contact Vibhuti Kacholia at vibhuti.kacholia@mail.utoronto.ca.

The Women & Gender Studies Institute and the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, invite you to a community roundtable on “Anti-Asian Racism and Intersectional Violence” We are organizing this event in light of the recent shootings in Atlanta and the rise of anti-Asian racism during COVID. While the presence of anti-Asian sentiments may seem […]

This is an academic talk hosted online by the JHI Working Group on Tamil Studies at the University of Toronto. Register here.  Description: Important ethical acts are often accomplished in short stretches of language. In interactional settings, word choices, substitutions, juxtapositions, and avoidances can perform acts of care, signal inclusion, communicate ethical stances, and keep […]

Gender & History presents: Keynote Event with Ozoz Sokoh  Nigerian food explorer, culinary anthropologist and food historian Food is More than Eating: Reclaiming and Reimagining Food Heritage and History   Saturday June 19th at 10:am-11:30am PST/1-2:30pm EST  To register for the webinar here The Gender & History 'Food and Sovereignty' Symposium is hosted by Victoria Island University. […]

Watch Livestream Speakers: ​Nahla Abdo, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University Mark Ayyash, Associate Professor, Sociology, Mount Royal University Chandni Desai, Assistant Professor, Equity Studies, University of Toronto Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto ​Moderator: Himani Bannerji, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Sociology, York University For over 73 […]