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SUMMARY:Indian Placement and Relocation:  Post-War Indian Affairs Urban Employment Programming
DESCRIPTION:Aboriginal Studies\, the Women & Gender Studies Institute\, the Department of History and Anthropology (UTSG)\, and Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC) present:\nProfessor Mary Jane McCallum\, Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg\nIndian Placement and Relocation: Post-War Indian Affairs Urban Employment Programming – The “Placement and Relocation Programme” of the Department of Indian Affairs\, initiated in 1957\, was the first federal policy aiming to relocate First Nations people to urban centres and organize placement in full time employment.  The literature describing the program highlights the ways in which First Nations people were envisioned in Canada as remote\, uneducated and a problem in modern Canadian society.\nThe goal of integration for social invisibility in the urban landscape was clear.  While positive descriptions of the program and successful individuals who took part in it appeared regularly in Departmental publications and public documents\, in reality\, for those who did take part\, only low-status and low-paying placements were offered.  I will question some of the intentions and results of the program’s efforts to regulate and manage the movement of First Nations people in post-war Canada.\nReception to follow at Gallery Grill\, Hart House from 4:00pm – 5:30pm (please RVSP to paula.hastings@utoronto.ca)\nFor further information please contact Paula Hastings: paula.hastings@utoronto.ca or Krista Maxwell: krista.maxwell@utoronto.ca
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/indian-placement-relocation-post-war-indian-affairs-urban-employment-programming/
LOCATION:2098 Sidney Smith Hall\, 100 George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3G3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:WGS Research Seminar - Jean Comaroff
DESCRIPTION:THE RETURN OF KHULEKANI KHUMALO\, ZOMBIE CAPTIVE:\n Identity\, Law\, and Paradoxes of Personhood in the Postcolony \nWhat might imposture tell us about personhood in ‘postcolonial’ times? About the means of producing selfhood\, gender\, identity\, social viability? While the figure of the false double has long haunted Western ideas of personhood\, imposture of various kinds has become ever more striking in late modern times. It is especially common in post-apartheid South Africa\, for instance\, where identity theft\, plagiarism\, fakery\, even counterfeit crime are everyday occurrences. Taking a celebrated national case – the alleged ‘return’ of a famous Zulu musician who died three years ago – this lecture explores what such acts of imposture might tell us about postcolonial self-fashioning\, about personhood under contemporary social conditions\, and about the difficulties posed by all this for law\, evidence\, and the meaning of recognition.
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/wgs-research-seminar-jean-comaroff/
LOCATION:JHB 100A\, Jackman Humanities Building\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20141106T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20141106T150000
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SUMMARY:Learning (South) Korea:  Thoughts on Risk Society\, Violence and Mourning (Over the Sewol Ferry Disaster)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series\nCo-Presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea\nHaejoang Cho\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\, will be speaking as a ‘native anthropologist’ about her whirlwind journey experiencing South Korea’s compressed modernity since the 1980’s.  The discussion begins with the recent 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster in Jindo\, that has resonated with 9/11 and the 3/11 Disaster in Fukushima.  Professor Cho will focus on the split of South Korean public responses into disparate antagonistic groups; those who say to “never forget\,” and those who urge to “forget and go back to normal life.”  The discussion will elaborate on concepts of risk society\, reflexivity\, mourning\, and violence in the context of compressed modernity and global capitalism as the lived experiences of people in South Korea. \nHaejoang Cho is a cultural anthropologist in training and feminist in faith.  She is Professor Emeritus of Yonsei University in Seoul.  Her early research focused on gender studies in Korean modern history; her current interests and research are in the area of youth culture and modernity in the global/local and post-colonial context of modern day Korea.  Cho is the founding director of Haja Center (The Seoul Youth in 1999.  The Haja project has promoted ‘action research’ to address youth issues from the perspectives of feminism\, cultural studies\, ecological studies in the rapidly globalizing East Asian context. \nCo-Sponsored by:  Asian Institute\, OISE Adult Education and Community Development Program\, Department of Anthropology\, Munk School of global Affairs\, Women & Gender Studies Institute. \nRegister online at:  http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=16325 \n  \n\n 
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/learning-south-korea-thoughts-risk-society-violence-mourning-sewol-ferry-disaster/
LOCATION:Asian Institute\, Munk School of Global Affairs\, 1 Devonshire Place\, 208N - Seminar Room\, North House\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20141107T150000
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SUMMARY:Haja Story:  Youth\, Learning\, and Survival Politics in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series\nCo-Presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea \nHaejoang Cho\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\nThis public lecture and dialogue with the wider Toronto community will focus on the precarious youth at the Haja Center (the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture) and their survival politics based on Professor Haejoang Cho’s pedagogical and socio-political experiments. It will be an opportunity to engage in conversations with one of Korea’s leading public intellectuals and activists. In the rapidly globalizing East Asian context\, the project has evolved in response to several national and global crises: the 1997 Asian financial crisis\, the 2008- 2009 global financial crises\, and the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Interested in a pedagogy that fundamentally connects life and learning\, Professor Cho has endeavored to create platforms that enable new types of learning in various forms including a youth center\, an alternative school\, an after-school community\, and a transition town. This talk will explain the launching of these platforms and the discussion of anticipated new projects. As Ulrich Beck described in his term\, “emancipatory catastrophism\,” the power of transformation comes from a keen awareness of recent economic\, social\, and natural crises. This power is fundamental and globally shared\, rather than isolated and unique. Professor Cho will discuss how the youth can bring their experiences and observation of crises into an “epochal transformation” by actively making connections and creatively turning the connections into new possibilities.\nHaejoang Cho is a cultural anthropologist by training and feminist in faith. She is Professor Emeritus of Yonsei University in Seoul. Her early research focused on gender studies in Korean modern history; her current interests and research are in the area of youth culture and modernity in the global/local and post-colonial context of modern day Korea. Cho is the founding director of Haja Center (The Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture)\, an alternative educational and cultural studio for teenagers established in 1999. The Haja project has promoted ‘action research’ to address youth issues from the perspectives of feminism\, cultural studies\, and ecological studies in the rapidly globalizing East Asian context.\nCo-Sponsored by: Asian Institute\, OISE Adult Education and Community Development\, Munk School of Global Affairs\, Women & Gender Studies Institute\, Department of Anthropology\, Hope 21 (Korean Progressive Network in Canada)\nRegister online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=16492 \n  \n 
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/haja-story-youth-learning-survival-politics-east-asia/
LOCATION:OISE\, 252 Bloor Street West\, Nexus Lounge\, 12th Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - "A Place of Abomination": C. L. R. James\, the Erotics of the Tent\, and an Unimaginable Caribbean Future
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately Prof. Makalani is ill and will not be able to make this presentation.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. \n  \nProf. Minkah Makalani University of Texas at Austin will present “A Place of Abomination”:  C.L.R. James\, the Erotics of the Tent\, and an Unimaginable Caribbean Future. \n  \nSponsored by WGSI
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/place-abomination-c-l-r-james-erotics-tent-unimaginable-caribbean-future/
LOCATION:WGSI Lounge\, Wilson Hall\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Rise of ISIS and the Ongoing Crisis in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Women of Rojava: Dreams\, Resistance and Challenges\nPlease join us for a conversation with Dr. Shahrzad Mojab (OISE) who will speak on “Women of Rojava: Dreams\, Resistance and Challenges.” Dr. Walid Saleh (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) and Dr. Jens Hanssen (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) will be the discussants.
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/rise-isis-ongoing-crisis-middle-east/
LOCATION:WGSI Lounge\, Wilson Hall\, University of Toronto\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20141125T170000
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SUMMARY:Egyptian Women’s Testimonios: Resisting Violence/Seeking Justice
DESCRIPTION:Manal Hamzeh from the University of New Mexico\, Las Cruces will present “Egyptian Women’s Testimonios:  Resisting Violence/Seeking Justice”\nWhile Egyptian women were/are major shapers of the Jan 25th Revolution\, this talk will explore how their embodied experiences were/are both central sites of violence and revolutionary resistance in the post-Mubarak militarist and Islamist regimes. In this talk\, I will address televised testimonios of four Egyptian women who experienced assault at four epic moments after the Jan 25th Revolution. These testimonios illustrate the more visceral role of Egyptian women resisting the counter revolutionary forces and opening spaces for freedom and justice in Egypt.” I will discuss the women’s testimonios as pedagogical and activist approaches to resisting repression and seeking justice (Bernal\, Burciaga\, & Carmona 2012). With their testimonios\, these women not only transgress the consequences of violence by exposing the regimes’ crimes but they also teach us new ways of healing and resilience that they create and sustain in this time of intense change\, as the revolution is still unfolding.\nCo-hosts:  CTL\, Equity Studies\, WSGI\, Anthropology and Adult Education.
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/egyptian-womens-testimonios-resisting-violence-seeking-justice/
LOCATION:TBD\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Women and Revolution in the Middle East: A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers and activists focusing on contemporary issues concerning women in the Middle East. Meet the speakers:\nSharifa Sharif is an Afghan–Canadian feminist author who has worked in the areas of adult education\, women and development\, community development\, journalism and politics in Kabul\, Canada\, India and Prague.\nManal Hamzeh is an associate professor in the Women’s Studies Program at New Mexico State University. Dr. Manal’s research draws on anti-racist/decolonizing educational theories and currently focuses on the politics of gender and sexuality in the January 25th Egyptian Revolution.\nAfiya S. Zia is a feminist researcher and pro-democracy activist from Pakistan. She is currently completing a manuscript for publication titled\, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan. Afiya is also pursuing research for her PhD in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. She is an active member of Women’s Action Forum – a secular women’s rights organization in Pakistan and an advisory board member of the Centre for Secular Space (UK).\nDr. Linda Tabar is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research is situated within the field of anti-colonial\, anti-racist feminist scholarship. Dr. Tabar’s articles on colonial violence\, memory and the pacifying effects of the aid regime on anti-colonial movements have appeared in a number of journals.\nGhadeer Malek is a Palestinian feminist activist\, writer\, and spoken word poet. She founded and was Editor of 4 issues of AQSAZine\, a collective zine produced by young Muslim women in Toronto using art and creative expression to address gender-based violence issues. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Ghadeer is also co-coordinator of the Young Feminist Activism program at the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and manages the Young Feminist Wire\, an online community of young feminists.
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/women-revolution-middle-east-roundtable-discussion/
LOCATION:OISE – Room 4414\, 252 Bloor St W.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1V6\, Canada
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