Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Call for Submissions: Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making

  The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies is pleased to invite creative thinkers to submit proposals for our upcoming event, Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making, that aspire to move beyond institutionalized (academic, governmental, religious, medical, etc.) methods of... More

Friday, December 10, 2021

Hiring Part-Time Replacement for Assistant to the Joint Chair

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University is hiring a part-time replacement for the Assistant to the Joint Chair in Women's Studies for the period from Jan 2022-Feb 2023. For further details, see job number J1121-0674 at: https://carleton.njoyn.com/CL2/xweb/xweb.asp?CLID=53443&page=joblisting&lang=1... More

Monday, December 6, 2021

32 years after Montreal Massacre, activists wonder what’s changed?

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Monday, December 6, 2021

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Dec 6, 2021 Dear friends of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies: On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we continue to to remember and to mourn the women whose lives were cut short at École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.  Although we cannot... More

Friday, December 3, 2021

ENGAGE project launch on The International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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Friday, November 12, 2021

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Dear friends of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies: As we prepare for yet another Convocation without being able to gather in person, I'd like to extend a note of congratulations to this fall's graduates.   I wish that we could hear your names called out as you cross the stage to... More

Monday, November 1, 2021

New Video for Critical Race Studies!

The Carleton Faculty of Social Sciences has created a new video to promote our new minor in Critical Race Studies.  Check it out... More

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Prof. Xuan Thuy Nguyen – Chapter in new dis/ability studies book!

Prof. Xuan Thuy Nguyen has contributed to a new publication entitled "Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman's Reader" with her chapter entitled "Critical Disability Studies at the Edge of Global Development: Why Do We Need to Engage with Southern Theory?" Check out the publication here! "More than a decade after the publication of... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Ryan Conrad book launch – Between Certain Death and Possible Future!

Ryan Conrad is participating in a book launch event for a new anthology of queer writing about growing up with the AIDS crisis that just came out from Arsenal Pulp Press. His contribution is about growing up outside the metropolises and the role film/video/tv played in teaching me about queer HIV/AIDS histories, politics, and... More

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Students as Partners Blog: Catherine Camparmo

This summer, I had the privilege of being asked by Professor Conrad to participate in the Students as Partners program to improve the First Year Seminar course I took last year in the Women’s and Gender Studies program, Intro to LGBTQ Studies. I was incredibly excited at the prospect of this opportunity, as this... More

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Upcoming Event: The Politics of a “Holiday”: An open-house reflection about September 30th

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Monday, September 20, 2021

Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Finds Strong Support on Carleton Campus

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

We’re Hiring a Website, Social Media and Event Assistant!

We want to hire a work-study student as a Website, Social Media and Event Assistant!  Please apply through CUHire by September 20th, 2021. For more information for students on the Work-Study program, please visit https://carleton.ca/awards/students/   Job Description: Website Social Media and Events Assistant Compensation: $15.00/hr + 4%... More

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Dr. Manjeet Birk writing on Critical Race Theory in “The Conversation”

Dr. Manjeet Birk recently published a widely-circulated piece in The Conversation on Critical Race Theory and “Diversity”. In addition to providing a brief overview of what critical race theory actually involves, the article also challenges “diversity” initiatives that fail to address white supremacy in meaningful ways. You can read the... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Today! We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism

Event Information Activist-scholars will remember the historic protest "We Demand" and draw on their work to discuss past and present 2SLGBTQIA+ activism. About this event Join us for We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism! Hosted by Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) with support of the Anti-69... More

Monday, August 9, 2021

Recordings from “What Happened to Lesbian and Gay Studies?” symposium now available for viewing

In June 2021, The Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin hosted an online symposium titled “What Happened to Lesbian and Gay Studies?”, which featured a number of speakers and panelists, including Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. The symposium aimed to answer a range of... More

Thursday, August 5, 2021

New publication from Dr. Ann Cvetkovich in Feminist Media Histories’ special issue on Affect

Dr. Ann Cvetkovich has a new piece in the Spring 2021 special issue on Affect published by the journal Feminist Media Histories. The article titled “It Feels Right to Me”: Queer Feminist Art Installations and the Sovereignty of the Senses focuses on how affect theory has been informed by art practice, and develops the... More

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Research Assistant (RA) position available with The Learning with and from the Global South: Opportunities for Engaging Girls and Young Women with Disabilities Across Southern Spaces (ENGAGE) project 

The Learning with and from the Global South: Opportunities for Engaging Girls and Young Women with Disabilities Across Southern Spaces (ENGAGE) project invites applications for 1 Research Assistant at Carleton University in Canada. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2021-24), ENGAGE aims to create decolonial... More

Thursday, July 29, 2021

New publication by Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen on engaging girls with disabilities in the Global South via participatory visual research

Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, along with her co-authors Marnina Gonick and Tuyen Bui, recently published their latest article Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South in the journal Global Studies of Childhood. This article uses a critical... More

Thursday, July 22, 2021

WGST Faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra, Katie Bausch, and Carolyn Ramzy awarded SOPI Grant

WGST faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra and Katie Bausch, along with cross-appointed faculty member Carolyn Ramzy were recently awarded a SOPI (Shared Online Projects Initiative) Grant for their project Open Educational Resources (OER) on Community-Building and Culture. This grant will help facilitate the creation of critical online resources addressing... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Dr. Kelly Fritsch co-authors new children’s book about dis/ability justice!

Cross-appointment professor, Kelly Fritsch has co-authored "We Move Together", a new children's book that "chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of characters as they cleverly negotiate barriers and conflicts that impede their ability to move together. But more than that, We Move Together is a celebration of disability culture, community,... More

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Profs!

We're thrilled to welcome two new faculty members to our department this year Dr. Manjeet Birk and Dr. Fady Shanouda! Manjeet Birk Manjeet Birk (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women’s organizing, social justice and... More

Monday, June 21, 2021

Congratulations Class of 2021!

We want to send out our warmest CONGRATULATIONS to all our graduates this year!   Class of 2021 - Master's Graduates Class of 2021 -... More

Monday, May 3, 2021

Prof. Pat Gentile’s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!

Patrizia Gentile's book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.  The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Brittney Bos awarded contract instructor teaching award!

The Office of Provost and VP Academic have announced their 2021 Achievement award recipients, and we wanted to extend our enthusiastic congratuations to Brittney Bos for winning the Contract Instructor Teaching Award.  She states "I always remind learners: I’m formally listed as your instructor, but I’m actually your feminist educator who is... More

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

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