The Black Aquatic: On Water, Art and Black Movement

Webinar

A Winter School webinar with Professor Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott is Professor of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto. He recently served as the Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute, where he holds his appointment. He is also a member of the Department of Social Justice Education at Ontario Institute […]

WGS Research Seminar (registration required – see below)

Webinar

Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_emM_iBFaTcCmh6NrkNiFsQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.   University of Toronto Faculty of Law presents 1969 Criminal Law Reforms Moderator: Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Speakers: Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Fifty Years Later: The […]

Film Screening – A Thousand Cuts: On Media, Policing, and Authoritarian Brutality

Online

In collaboration with Cornell University, UCLA, Barnard College (Columbia University), University of Toronto, Rutgers University, and Los Angeles’  Visual Communications (VC), you are invited to an international screening of A Thousand Cuts by Ramona Diaz, followed a panel featuring Maria Ressa (Rappler), Jinee Lokaneeta (Drew University), and Gina Dent (UCSC). This panel will be moderated by Neferti Tadiar (Barnard […]

Robyn Maynard Presents Snider Lecture: Abolish the Police, Abolish Prisons: Black liberation in a time of revolt

Online via Zoom

This talk will address the ways that processes of captivity and surveillance have been embedded within Canadian state institutions from the period of Black peoples enslavement and onward into the present moment. Providing a critique of policing and prisons as forms of racial and gendered violence, it will map out a vision geared toward abolitionist […]

WGSI-GSU Virtual Conference – Speaking to Power (Conference link, no registration needed: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81349677081)

Conference link, no registration needed: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81349677081

Conference link, no registration needed: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81349677081 Feminist Theories and Praxes Speaking to Power 2020 Full Program Schedule: Day 1 - Thursday, 15th October, 2020 (10:00-13:15pm) Day 2 - Friday, 16th October, 2020 (12:00-16:30pm) Day 3 - Saturday, 17th October, 2020 (10:00-14:35pm) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander (Thursday) Dr. Cathy Schlund-Vials (Thursday) Dr. Anjali […]

Indigenous Women and Settler Colonialism – Lee Maracle

Webinar

Public Lecture  Indigenous Women and Settler Colonialism: Why We Cannot Dismiss Our Connection to Non-Indigenous Women  A talk by Lee Maracle To join the event on Zoom visit:  https://zoom.us/j/92105995898?pwd=VlQxaGFUUDQxOG13VGttS01teXk1Zz09#success This is a public lecture.  No registration required. Lee Maracle, a member of the Sto:lo Nation, is the author of many award winning and critically acclaimed […]

WGS Research Seminar – M. NourbeSe Phillip

Zoom Webinar

Watch recorded webinar here. The Hammed Shahidian Lecture Series Presents: Title:  GA(S)P:  Experiments in Radical Hospitality Biography:  Born in Tobago, M. NOURBESE PHILIP is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto where she practised law for seven years before becoming a poet and […]

WGS Research Seminar – Hazel Carby

Zoom Webinar

JOIN WEBINAR HERE The Hammed Shahidian Lecture Series Presents: Title: “Imperial Sexual Economies” Biography:  Hazel Carby, Charles C. And Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale University.  Author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (1999); Race Men (1998); Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the […]