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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

POSTPONED: ‘To Make it Alive in the Minds of People’: Rematriating Sky Woman’s Story

Please note that this event is postponed to Fall 2019   Monday, February 25, 2019 Who gets to write history? The colonizers do. History has a very different meaning for the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk people). The Kanienkeha word for history, tsinitsiwen:a, means ‘to make it alive in the minds of the people’. As we consider... More

Friday, January 4, 2019

A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

Monday, January 14, 2019 10:00am - 11:30am Dunton 1811 A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy offers an interdisciplinary examination of the role family formation plays in both the granting and refusal of Canadian citizenship. In analyzing three different areas of Canada's immigration law and policy,... More

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

November 19th Lecture, Dr. Brian Johnson – Dazzler, Allegory, and Shame: Notes from the Mutant Closet, 1980-1986.

Date: Monday, November 19 2018 Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Venue: Dunton 1811 Queer comics readers have always known that the euphoric freedom of the superbody and the suggestive homosociality of superhero friendships furnish abundant raw materials for queer worldbuilding and the pleasures of self-recognition. We just have to squint at them properly.... More

Friday, October 12, 2018

#Feminism: Popular Culture and the Representation of a Movement

Over the 20th and 21st centuries feminism has been represented in multiple ways in popular culture. Somewhat surprisingly, the movements around feminism have been at times celebrated in film, television, and music. However, a very specific version of the movements prevail; ones that focus on white, middle-class, neo-liberal narratives, ultimately... More

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Florence Bird Lecture 2018: Policing Black Lives – Sept. 21st

On state violence and Black feminist resistance Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist author, community organizer and public intellectual based in Montréal. She has been a part of movements against racial profiling, police violence, detention and deportation for over a decade and has an extensive background in community work. Robyn will be discussing... More

Monday, July 30, 2018

Sept. 24-25, 2018: New Event by the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies: Academic Freedom and Anti-Oppression

Always a Zero-Sum Game? Exploring the Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Anti-Oppression Organized by Dr. Ummni Khan, the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies (Carleton University and University of Ottawa), this one and a half day symposium aims to create open and respectful dialogue about the tensions — real or perceived — between academic... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Laura Horak’s “Girls Will Be Boys”

Note: Professor Laura Horak will host a screening and book party for Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema 1908-1934, at SAW Video Media Art Centre on April 8th. Film Studies Professor Laura Horak begins her new book ‘Girls Will Be Boys’ with a richly detailed description of a scene from Morocco... More

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