Women and Gender Studies InstituteRegister 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join zoom here . Its open access edition is freely available to read and download here. The city of Toronto possesses one of the largest and oldest Guyanese diasporas outside of Guyana. Join us for a conversation exploring the Guyanese-Canadian narratives of migration and the role of art in telling women’s migration stories featured in […]
This panel brings together Black queer scholars to meditate on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our communities. The coronavirus, and the attendant public health safety measures that have been enacted in its wake, have revived public discourses regarding risk, vulnerability, (im)mobility, and health. We know, all too well, the ways that queer folks […]
