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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

FASS Program Spotlight is on Women’s and Gender Studies!

Megan Rivers-Moore interviews one of our students about why they picked Carleton and Women's and Gender Studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-EncCLIHY&list=WL&index=11&t=27s  ... More

Sunday, December 6, 2020

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Feminist Futures in a Time of Pandemic: “Black Feminism Reimagined” – a Workshop with Jennifer Nash now on YouTube

The Feminist Futures in a Time of Pandemic: "Black Feminism Reimagined" - A Workshop with Jennifer Nash is now available to view on YouTube!... More

Friday, November 13, 2020

Joint Chair Nadia Abu-Zahra and team awarded SOPI Award

Dr. Nadia Abu-Zahra and a team of professors from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have been awarded $32,000 for their project to co-create open educational resources (OER) about structural inequalities, as they relate to mobility and immigration, learning and education, racism and racialization, social justice, and resistance and... More

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Xuan Thuy Nguyen to give keynote at the Music, Mediation and Disability Symposium

Our colleague Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen is presenting the keynote address at the Music, Mediation and Disability Online Symposium next weekend! Her talk is titled "Towards decolonial disability studies: Engaging theory and praxis from the Global South". The Symposium is Saturday and Sunday, November 21 - 22 Dr. Nguyen's talk is scheduled for Sunday,... More

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Alan Santinele Martino defends his Ph.D Thesis!

Congratulations to our Contract Instructor, Alan Santinele Martino for defending this thesis with the department of Sociology at McMaster University on October 8th! His dissertation is entitled "The Romantic and Sexual Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Ontario, Canada" Alan's research focused on the romantic and sexual lives of... More

Friday, November 6, 2020

Patrizia Gentile and co-investigator Dan Irving awarded SSHRC funding for their project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities

Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile (principal investigator) and Dan Irving (co-investigator), who were recently awarded a $65,680 SSHRC grant for the project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities. Established in Ottawa in 1943 the Beaver Boxing Club (BBC) trained generations of amateur... More

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Manjeet Birk begins SSHRC postdoc Pathways to Inclusion of Indigenous and Racialized Communities: A Comparative Analysis Between Canada and New Zealand

Manjeet Birk will spend this academic year completing a SSHRC postdoc focused on her project Pathways to Inclusion of Indigenous and Racialized Communities: A Comparative Analysis Between Canada and New Zealand. This project involves collaborating with a team in the Department of Public Health at the Auckland University of Technology, in Auckland... More

Friday, October 23, 2020

Dr. Patrizia Gentile’s new book is out TODAY!

Congratulations to our colleague Pat Gentile on the publication of her book "Queen of the Maple Leaf Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity"!  You can order your copy HERE! Book Description: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous... More

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Letter from the Director 2020

Dear friends of the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies: Although all of us continue to grapple with the twin pandemics of covid-19 and systemic racism, our faculty have somehow managed to get the fall term up and running.  We have worried about our parents, our kids, and our friends near and far, and... More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Statement of Support for Scholar Strike Canada

We, the faculty of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, write in support of Scholar Strike in Canada, a call to action in higher education to “protest anti-Black, racist, and colonial police brutality in the US, Canada, and elsewhere.”  For more information, including the strike’s origins in a tweet by Professor... More

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore has been awarded the CU COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant!

Megan Rivers-Moore's research proposal "Coronavirus, Sex Work, and Mutual Aid in Latin America" will examine how sex workers in the global south are experiencing and responding to the coronavirus pandemic. This project will explore the ways Latin American sex workers' mutual aid strategies have shifted during the coronavirus and share key... More

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