Tuesday, March 23, 2021

PhD Fellowship in Critical Disability Studies

We enthusiastically invite applications for a PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies at Carleton University. The objective of this fellowship is to provide an opportunity for training a doctoral student in Critical Disability Studies with a focus on working with women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. The successful candidate will... More

Friday, February 19, 2021

MA Student Caitlin Manuel is nominated for 2020 Favorite Faculty!

The Department of Housing and Residence Life Services sends out a survey to all students living in Residence that gives them the opportunity to submit a nomination for their Favourite Faculty member. This survey simply stated: Who is the faculty member, and why are they so great? Our Masters student, Caitlin Manuel has been... More

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Student Poetry – The 504 Sit-ins: The Wakening

Gagan Dhaliwal is a first-year student majoring in Cognitive Sciences and was taking our DBST1001A course - Intro to Disability Studies. “I took the course on disability studies as an elective and, to be honest, did not think much of it. Many concepts, ideas and definitions were introduced throughout the course, ultimately changing my... More

Friday, January 15, 2021

Former prof Betty-Anne Daviss’s new book – Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

Betty-Anne Daviss (midwife, researcher and former WGST prof) has published a new book - Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power. Combined as an academic textbook and essential activist reading, it traces the major highlights of the history of Human Rights and how reproductive rights activists have graduated from... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Amrita Hari: Immigrant women are falling behind during the COVID-19 pandemic

"Immigrant women are feeling the brunt of the negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and it may not get better. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited public debate on the adverse socio-economic effects on women engaged in both paid and unpaid work. There have been some specific conversations about health-care workers and... More

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, October 15, 2020

Katharine Bausch Book Launch!

Join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Katharine Bausch on her new book “He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era!  We're hosting a book launch for her so be sure to Register Here so you don't miss it! The end of the Second World War saw a... 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

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

Find out what's next for our... More

Friday, May 22, 2020

Three of our Grad Students Nominated for 2019-20 Outstanding TA Awards!

We are delighted to announce that three of our graduate students, Rachel Jobson, PJ Javier, and Noah Rodomar have been nominated for the 2019-2020 Outstanding TA Awards. Rachel and PJ were nominated for their work in WGST 1808 and Noah was nominated for his work in SXST 2101. Congratulations to our students for their... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo part of new research that shows a decrease in education funding for disabled students

Study results appear in Dr. Spagnuolo’s newly co-authored article, “Neoliberal methods of disqualification: a critical examination of disability-related education funding in Canada”.      ... More

Friday, January 17, 2020

Carleton Summer Job Fair Jan 28!

10am - 3pm in Alumni Hall... More

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

New publication from Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo

Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo has a new publication in the The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism. Her co-authored chapter is titled “Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: Transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities”. The complete citation information can be found below.... More

Thursday, December 12, 2019

PJIWGS Holiday Closure

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies will be closed from Monday, December 23 to Sunday, January 5, 2020.  The department will re-open on Monday, January 6th, 2020 at 8:00am. Thank you and wishing you all wonderful... More

Friday, November 29, 2019

Calling All Stans!!! Study on Rap Music, Masculinity & Life Experiences

Are you interested in being interviewed on rap music, masculinity and life experiences? Email: eminemproject2020@gmail.com to sign up and receive information about location and times! Please see poster below for eligibility... More

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo receives DHA publication award!

Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo recently received second place for the 2018 Disability History Association Journal Article/Book Chapter Award for her chapter 'Mobilising historical knowledge: Locating the disability archive', in K. Ellis, R. Garland-Thompson, M. Kent & R. Robertson (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking Towards... More

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Institute Director Ann Cvetkovich featured in FASSinate!

Our Director, Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, has been featured in Carleton's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences magazine, FASSinate!  Check out the amazing article about her work... More

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Special themed issue on Disability and Children’s Rights guest edited by DBST professor Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen

The Canadian Journal of Children's Rights has recently published a themed issue on Disability and Children's Rights co-edited by Carleton's Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Dr. Claudia Mitchell (McGill). It is available online... More

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Prof Manjeet Birk voted as Most Inclusive Teacher by students!

Professor Manjeet Birk, who joined the institute as an Instructor in September 2019, has been voted by students as one of the most inclusive teachers at Carleton University!  Carleton's office of Equity and Inclusive Communities ran focus groups prior to last week's Inclusion Week to poll students about inclusivity in the classroom.  Manjeet... More

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Nadia Abu-Zahra featured by Carleton Newsroom!

The Carleton Newsroom has run a story about The Joint Chair in Women's Studies, Dr. Nadia Abu-Zahra!  Click here to read the full... More

Monday, November 18, 2019

Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research and Activism is on YouTube!

Check out project TDKRA on YouTube! You can also access their manual of Participatory Visual Methodologies... More

Friday, November 1, 2019

Sign up for Communities of Practice Today!

The Joint Chair in Women's Studies will be hosting two Community of Practice sessions on Wednesday, November 13th at Carleton in Dunton 2017.  Please click on the link below for more information and to sign up!... More

Monday, October 28, 2019

You’re invited to join the Carleton/uOttawa Transgender Studies Reading Group!

Carleton/uOttawa Transgender Studies Reading Group! We meet once a month at Carleton (and sometimes uOttawa) to discuss new interdisciplinary scholarship in Transgender Studies. Our first meeting this academic year is on Monday, November 4, 3-5PM, Dunton Tower, Room 1419, Carleton University. We will be discussing the first three chapters of Gayle... More

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Behind the scenes with the Accessible Canada Act C-81

The new Accessible Canada Act C-81 received royal assent on July 21. A film crew followed and interviewed key people on the day, including the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Senator Jim Munson, James van Raalte, Sinead Tuite, Bill Adair and Frank Folino. Two and a half hours of raw footage from the July 21 proceedings... More

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Disappearing Disability Call for Papers

This is a Call for chapters for a collection of essays, between 2000 and 5000 words, as well as creative works that show how disability appears and disappears in our midst. This collection will serve to introduce readers to disability studies. For full details, click here: (attached PDF). Editors: Dr. Tanya Titchkosky, Elaine Cagulada... More

Thursday, October 24, 2019

“A Completely Customized World Where Everything Is Just How I Like and Need It.”

Carleton University Art Gallery invites you to a talk by Brooklyn-based artist and activist Shannon Finnegan: “A Completely Customized World Where Everything Is Just How I Like and Need It.” The talk will take place at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, located at 355 Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa on October 29, 2019 from 7-8:30pm. This... More

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