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 […]

Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

Online via Zoom

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 […]

The Sex Salon – “Touching Death: Theorizing Black Queer Afterlife in Times of COVID-19”

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 […]

How shall we organize to live? Transnational Black Radicalism

We live in challenging, some might say unprecedented political and economic times: unparalleled concentrations of wealth in fewer and fewer hands facilitated by authoritarianism and rising fascism as “ordinary people” clamor for change. This panel draws on Caribbean and Black radical traditions in order to explore our political moment and how we think and organize […]

WGS Research Seminar – Dr. Bedour Alagraa

Zoom Webinar

Watch webinar recording here. Title: The Interminable Catastrophe Dr. Bedour Alagraa is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Alagraa received her PhD from the department of Africana Studies at Brown University in the Spring of 2019, and […]