Women and Gender Studies InstituteNew Directions in Black Studies: Mining the Raw and the Monstrous with Marlon M. Bailey and Jeffrey Q. McCune For more information click here.
A Life That's Good: Queer Perspectives on ‘Blood’, Sex and Health featuring Marlon M. Bailey, OmiSoore H. Dryden and Jeffrey Q. McCune For more information click here.
This talk explores options for navigating a meaningful career as a 'scholar activist' trained in Women and Gender Studies. Gender equality is a priority for states, NGOs, and private organizations committed to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and as a result, there is broad demand for graduates who can do gender-sensitive critical analysis and […]
Title: Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law In this book, Blackett tells the story behind the ILO’s 2011 Decent Work for Domestic Workers’ Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 – they created the first comprehensive, international standards to extend protections and rights to domestic workers laboring in homes […]
Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota Title: "Hungry Translations in Search of Justice" Bio: Richa Nagar’s transgenre and multilingual scholarship, creative writing, and cultural work in English, Hindi/ Hindustani, and Awadhi blurs the borders of academia, arts, and activism to build alliances with people's struggles and to engage questions of ethics, responsibility, and justice through knowledge […]
Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran, The Dickson Poon School of Law Title: Governance Feminism: Assessing Feminist Realities and Futures My talk will discuss the key themes of a project that I have engaged in with my collaborators (Janet Halley, Rachel Rebouche & Hila Shamir) that resulted in two books Governance Feminism: An Introduction and Governance Feminism: Notes from […]
Kandice Chuh, City University of New York Title: Pedagogies of Il/liberal Humanism Can the humanities be oriented toward the ends of proliferating imaginaries and sensibilities disidentified from the ideologies and logics of liberalism and derived instead from attention to the entangled histories of and ongoing connection among the impoverishment of peoples and worlds, enslaved and […]
Come join us for a brown bag lunch with Tatiana who will provide a sneak peek into the state of affairs for LGBTQ individuals and culture in Russia. We will also discuss the challenges of transitioning from a grad student to Ph.D. and further to a postdoc phase or opting out of an academic career […]
PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE: 2020 marked the 35th anniversary of the City of Toronto Women’s Scholarship award (established in 1985). Join us for an intergenerational celebration, where this year’s awardees will be honoured, creators of scholarships will be recognised, and new scholarships will be announced
Professor Hazel Carby, Yale University More details to be posted soon.