Thursday, June 23, 2022

New Courses for 2022-23

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide intersectional curriculum that will be relevant for students in all of our Majors and Minors, we will be offering the following new courses in 2022-23: WGST 2812 Trans Feminisms (Dan Irving) WGST 3812 Fat Studies (Fady Shanouda) CRST 3812 Feminist Intersections of Anti-Racism and Indigeneity (Manjeet... More

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Amrita Hari, Incoming Director of PJIWGS/FIST

PJIWGS/FIST welcomes Amrita Hari as our new Director on July 1, 2022. Professor Hari is an Associate Professor who joined Carleton in 2013. She has a BA Hons and MA in Geography from University of Toronto and a DPhil in Geography from University of Oxford, and she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at... More

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Recent Publications from Ann Cvetkovich

Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the PJIWGS, has published the following essays recently:  “Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Loneliness as the Affective Condition of Settler Colonialism” in a special issue of Feminist Theory on Feminist Loneliness Studies edited by Shoshana Magnet and Celeste Orr; and “Covid Silver Linings” for a Symposium on 2020... More

Thursday, May 26, 2022

2022 WGST MA Theses

The following students in the WGST MA program recently defended their theses and will graduate in June 2022.  Brenna Egan, “Dragging Out Settler-Colonial Society: Exploring Gay and Queer Drag Scenes in Vancouver as (De)Colonial Spaces” Caitlin Manuel, “Cultivating Death-worlds: Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Sex, and Intimacy in... More

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Patrizia Gentile promoted to Full Professor

Patrizia Gentile, who holds a joint appointment in Women’s and Gender Studies and Human Rights and Social Justice, has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective July 1, 2022.  Gentile will continue her appointment as Graduate Advisor for the Women’s and Gender Studies MA program next... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

PJIWGS at Sexuality Studies Association

PJIWGS will have a strong presence at this year’s Sexuality Studies Association conference, May 20-22. Institute Director Ann Cvetkovich will be presenting a keynote address titled, “Grappling with Care” on May 20, and graduate students Caitlin Manuel and Brenna Egan will be presenting papers. Ryan Conrad, contract instructor and Research... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Looking Back on PJIWGS 2021-22 Events

The pandemic has disrupted many aspects of our programming over the last two years, but we have been able to provide a robust roster of events this year. We have hosted Feminist Futures lectures by our new faculty members Manjeet Birk and Fady Shanouda and a discussion in connection with the September 30 National Day of Truth and... More

Monday, May 9, 2022

Manjeet Birk receives CUELF and TLS Grants for teaching

Manjeet Birk, Assistant Professor in PJIWGS, has received grants from the Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund (CUELF) and the Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) Teaching Grants. She will be using the funds for a project to incorporate arts based pedagogies into her Critical Race Studies as an embodies practice of learning to promote... More

Monday, May 9, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore and Manjeet Birk receive FASS Research Awards

Megan Rivers-Moore, Associate Professor in PJIWGS, has received a FASS Research Award, and Manjeet Birk has received a FASS Early-Career Research Award. Professor Rivers-Moore's project is called "Sex work and mutual aid in Latin America and the Caribbean."  Professor Birk’s research will interrogate race and racism in racialized and Indigenous... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Patrizia Gentile publishes in Feeling Feminism

Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, has published an article titled “Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Contests, and Protests,” in the  the anthology Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press,... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Panel discussion on Disruption Embraced with Fady Shanouda

Fady Shanouda, Assistant Professor in the PJIWGS, moderated a panel discussion of the documentary short Disruption Embraced following a screening of the film by the Toronto Queer Film Festival. The short includes ten disabled, mad, D/deaf and blind artists reflecting on critical experiences in their lives that stoked their developing passion... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Critical Race Studies program featured in The Charlatan

A recent article in The Charlatan, the student newspaper at Carleton University, focuses on the PJIWGS’s new Minor in Critical Race Studies, along with other transformations at the Institute.  It features interviews with Institute Director Ann Cvetkovich, Professor Manjeet Birk, and WGST Major Cassie Rodriguez.   Click here to access the... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore discusses PJIWGS in FASS Faculty Chats podcast

Professor Megan Rivers-Moore, the undergraduate advisor for PJIWGS, discusses the Institute’s changing curriculum in the FASS Faculty Chats podcast. Click here to access the podcast episode (via... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Patrizia Gentile’s research featured on CBC Radio

On March 31, CBC Radio’s The Secret Life of Canada featured research originally published in The Canadian War on Queers (UBC Press, 2010), the book Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, co-authored with Gary Kinsman.   Click here to access the article and... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Fady Shanouda publishes in Weight Bias in Health Education

Fady Shanouda, Assistant Professor in PJIWGS, has published an article titled "Medical Equipment: The Manifestation of Anti‐Fat Bias in Medicine” in Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge, 2021). Click here to access the... More

Monday, April 25, 2022

Ann Cvetkovich publishes in On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the PJIWGS, has published an essay titled, “Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn,” in the collection On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence, edited by Irene Kacandes (DeGruyter, 2021).  Cvetkovich’s essay explores the relation between Holocaust Studies and Indigenous Studies within her... More

Monday, March 7, 2022

WGST MA student Taylor Maudlin presents at Carleton and Univ of Guelph

Taylor Maudlin, a WGST MA student, will present her research at Carleton’s Institute of Political Economy annual graduate student conference, Beyond Resistance on Thursday, March 3 and at the University of Guelph’s Honouring International Women’s Day Conference on March 8.  Taylor’s paper draws from her MA thesis and is titled, “The... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Fady Shanouda awarded SSHRC Explore Research Grant

Content Warning: the following text discusses suicide. Fady Shanouda, assistant professor in the PJIWGS, has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Explore Research Grant for his project titled “Student, Staff, and Faculty Distress and Suicidality within the Neoliberal University” As the project... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore on abortion in The Conversation

Content Warning: the following text discusses abortion, miscarriage.  Drawing on her research in Latin America, Megan Rivers-Moore shares her observations and findings in The Conversation’s article entitled “In Latin America, not only abortions but miscarriages can lead to jail time.” The article highlights the inaccessibility and... More

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

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