UPCOMING EVENTS

February

Jo-ann Episkenew
Professor Jo-ann Episkenew

Talk title: A Close Reading of the Human Text:
Indigenous Youth and Healthy Relationshps
Day: Thursday February 16th, 2012
Place: Somerville House 3315
Time: 4:30 t0 6:30 pm

March

Vday Western presents:
The Vagina Monologues

Date: Saturday March 3rd @ 2:00 pm and
Sunday March 4th @ 7:00 pm
Place: Mustang Lounge Theatre in UCC
Cost $15 for on play or $25 fo both
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Flaunting It 8
Undergraduate Research on Gender and Sexuality

Abstracts due by Friday February 17th, 2012
Click here for more information

Past Events

Dr. Janice Hladki
Associate Professor in Theatre and Film Studies, the School of the Arts, McMaster University
Vanguard Visuals: Alternative Film, Embodiment, and Accountable Spectatorship
Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm
University College Room 289

 Janice Hladki Talk

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2011

The Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research will host a talk by Professor Wendy Pearson
Title: "Re-Gen(de)ring Desire: Race, Sexuality and the Legacy of Feminist Science Fiction"
Location: UC 224A
Time: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

 

refashioning sexualities

Conference Program

 

 

Dr. Shahnaz Khan
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Global Studies
Wilfred Laurier University

Title: Consumer Citizens and Subversive Possibilities:Reading Hindi Cinema in Pakistan
Date and Time: Thursday October 21st, 2010 
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Place: University College, Room 30

 Shahnaz_Khan

DIANE PECKNOLD
Women's and Gender Studies Department
at the University of Louisville

Title: COLOR ME COUNTRY: Linda Martell's Spectacles of Race and Gender in Post-Civil Rights Country Music
September 23rd, 2010
4:30-6:00 p.m
University College, Rm 30

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 Valerie Miner Talk entitled Crossing Genre, Crossing Generations:
A Reading from the book Low Road

Thursday, May 13th, 2010, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Place: UWO Bookstore
To learn more about Valerie Miner please visit her official website: www.valerieminer.com

Valerie_Miner

 Feminist Pedagogies posterFeminist Pedagogies: Innovations, Interventions, Inquiries

Date: Wednesday, April 28th
Time: 8:45 am - 4:30 pm
Place: Somerville House - 3345

Lunch provided


Intent to Register Showcase for Social Science Students

Date: Tuesday March 9th
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Place: Main lobby and 2nd Floor of the Social Science Building

This is a great opportunity to meet program advisors and senior students from the department.
There will also be an ITR station where student volunteers can assist you with your Intent to Register forms.

Intent to Register for Arts and Humanities Students

  • February 25th, 11:00-12:00pm, UC 224A
  • March 10th, 2:00-3:00pm, UC 224A
  • March 17th, 3:30-4:30pm, UC 224A

Lecture posterImagining Security: Biometrics, Race, Gender and the Digitized Body

Dr. Shoshana Magnet

Date: March 5, 2010
Time: 2:45 pm
Place: Somerville House - Room 2355

About Dr. Magnet

She is an assistant professor at the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa. Much of her academic work investigates the relationships between bodies, borders and biometrics and she is currently at work on a book tentatively titled When Biometrics Fail: Culture, Technology, and the Business of Identity. She is also a video artist and has completed several video essays focussing on visualizing intimacy.

 

 

 

Lecture posterOn the Phenomenology of "World-traveling": The Problem of Being-in-worlds

Dr. Mariana Ortega
Shula Chair in Philosophy - John Carroll University

Date: February 4, 2010
Time: 4:45 - 6:00 pm
Place: University College - Room 224A

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