Another Story Book Launch: On Property with Rinaldo Walcott

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 […]

Activism Then and Now: A Cross-Generational Conversation

Webinar

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 […]

WGSS Feminist Lunch Series – Kama La Mackerel

Zoom

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 […]

International Women’s Day Lecture – Afua Cooper

Zoom Webinar

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 […]

WGS Research Seminar – Dr. Kristen Bos

Zoom

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 […]

Community Roundtable on “Anti-Asian Racism and Intersectional Violence”

Zoom

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 […]

“Translating Ethical Gestures: Notes on Language from Ethnographic Practice” – Dr. Aniruddhan Vasudevan 

Zoom

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 […]

Food is More than Eating: Reclaiming and Reimagining Food Heritage and History 

Zoom

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. […]