Events — 2025–26

Jan. 9-16 - Film Series - What Remains: Reclaiming Memories, Materialities, and Embodied Histories in African Cinema (*co-presented by TIFF and the Cinema Studies Institute at UofT) - Register

Jan. 12, 9:30am-2pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Film & Scholarship: A Research-Creation Workshop - Register

Jan. 13, 11am-1pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - CSACH - Gendering Contemporary Anticolonial Struggles in Pakistan: Women's Resistance in the Baloch Yakjehti Committee - A talk by Nida Kirmani - Register

Jan. 23, 11am-2pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - A Greek and Latin Convivium - Lunch & Learn with Dr. Grace Funsten (University of Pittsburgh) - Register

Jan. 28, 12-1:30pm on Zoom - Feminist Lunch Series - Whose Family Law? Intersectionality in the Canadian Context

Feb. 2, 5:30-6:30pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Feminist Lunch Series - Remembering those killed in Iran’s recent protests: A space for mourning and solidarity

Feb. 3, 1-3pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Past Sense Lecture Series with Benjamin A. Cowan - Minoritarian Fears and Fantasies: Behind Closed Doors with Brazil's Far-Right TFP - Register

Feb. 4, 12-2pm, MN 4207 - Student event: Bites and Board Games

Feb. 11, 12-1pm, Zoom - Feminist Lecture Series - How Law, Policing, and Public Institutions Shape the Lives of Racialized Youth

Feb. 11, 5-7pm, DV 2080 - Student event: Valentine's Movie Night

Feb. 25, 3-5pm, MN 2nd Floor North Reception - Palestine/Israel: Historical Roots - jointly organized with the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations - Register

Feb. 26, 4-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Past Sense Lecture Series with Ronald Charles - Violent Texts, Violent Readings: Reading the Book of Revelation in the Haitian Context - Register

Mar. 4, 5:30-7:30pm, DV 2080 - Student event: March Movie Night

Mar. 6, 6-8pm, North Reception Hall (MN) - CSACH - Singing the Immigrant Generation - A performance and presentation by Conner Singh VanderBeek - Register

Mar. 8, 12-1pm, Zoom - Feminist Lecture Series: International Women's Day - Intersectionality and Access to Justice: Legal Advocacy with Marginalized Communities

Mar. 16, 6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Feminist Lecture Series - Faith, Gender, Age, and Legal Justice: Intersectional Perspectives from Muslim Communities

Mar. 18, 3:30-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Research Spotlight Lecture Series - Where There is No Room for Fiction: A Research Creation Project - Professor Tong Lam - Register (in-person); Register (virtual)

Mar. 19, 5-7pm, MN - CSACH - Subversive Smiths - A talk by Nachiket Chanchani - Register

Mar. 20, 1:30-3pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Caitlin Mostoway Parker - Colonization, Imperialism and the Hudson’s Bay Company: The Consequence of Classics on the Indigenous People of North America: A workshop for students

Mar. 24, 4-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Past Sense Lecture Series with Amanda Lucia - Give Everything to the Guru-God: Self-Surrender in the Maharaj Libel Case of 1862 - Register

Mar. 25, 1-2pm, MN 4207 (and on Zoom) - WGS435Y5: Practicum in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Information Session

Mar. 26, 12-2pm - CSACH - Begum in Kachehrii: Family Law and Sovereignty in Muslim Princely States - A Lecture by Razak Khan, Freie University Berlin - Register

Mar. 27, 1-4:30pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - HIS498Y5 History Internship Colloquium - Register by March 20 (for HIS students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year)

Mar. 27, 6-8pm, North Reception Hall (MN) - CSACH - Book Launch and Panel Discussion: The Hyderabadis from 1947 to the Present Day - Featuring: Daneesh Majid, Haroon Siddiqui, Ali Adil Khan, Meenakshi Alimchandani, & Brian Cannon - Register