Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA)
The Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA) is an initiative aimed at building and deepening connections between communities of feminist scholars and feminist practitioners.
Learn more about the CKA here.
The Technoscience Research Unit (TRU)
The Technoscience Research Unit is a home for graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty research in technoscience studies at the University of Toronto with a focus on critical and social justice approaches to the study of science and technology. M. Murphy has been the director since its founding in 2007.
The Women & Gender Studies Institute supports and offers exciting events and initiatives that aim to foster a vibrant community and encourage active participation in a holistic learning environment.
Our research is distinct in its rigorous interdisciplinary engagement, the preoccupations that emerge from transnational and postcolonial frames, and its commitment to reimagining and troubling politics. Our work situates postcolonial, antiracist, queer, and transnational feminisms in the histories and politics of place, and in deep conversation with Caribbean studies, African studies, Canadian studies, Middle Eastern studies, U.S. studies, South Asian studies, and East Asian studies.
Throughout the academic year, WGSI hosts several lectures, talks, and workshops including: the Hammed Shahidian Research Seminar Series; the M. Jacqui Alexander Lecture Series; our Annual Centenary Lecture; a variety of graduate student professionalization workshops, and more.
View our events calendar here.
Visit our YouTube Channel to see recordings of previous events.
Research Seminar Series
The WGSI Hammed Shahidian Research Seminar Series is a forum for interdisciplinary research in feminist and gender studies.
Directed at both faculty and graduate students within the WGSI and across the campus as a whole, the seminar’s goal is to foster intellectual engagement with key theoretical, social and political questions touching on gender and feminism and their many intersections through the presentation of cutting-edge work by leading researchers both within and beyond the University of Toronto.
Learn more, view previous and upcoming research seminars here.
Extra-Curricular Activities & Initiatives
Our Graduate and Undergraduate Student Unions act as a source of information and support for students. Both the Women & Gender Studies Student Union (WGSSU) and the Women & Gender Studies Graduate Student Union (WGSGSU) host a variety of student-oriented social, academic and skill-building programs and events throughout the academic year.
Initiatives like our Feminist Sports Club give WGSI students the opportunity to get together and (re)connect with their bodies in a fun, non-competitive, body-positive sporty way, with monthly events including hiking, weightlifting, basketball, and boxing! See you on the court!
Rough Cuts/Take 2 offers senior students the opportunity to share their rough dissertation chapters with their peers. Students pre-circulate their rough drafts so that everyone is prepared to offer comments and feedback at the meeting. Not only is Rough Cuts a wonderful community-building activity, students find it exciting and inspiring to learn about each other’s intellectual curiosities and projects.
Graduate Professionaliziation offers ongoing workshops to mentor students through the graduate and post-graduate journey: bootcamping conference presentations; job application letters; WGSI grant writing applications; preparing cvs, mock job talks, submitting articles for publication, practicing the job interview.