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January 2026
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) - 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. 23, 3-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2025-26 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Grace Funsten (University of Pittsburgh): "Subaltern Authorship and the Functions of Allusion in Roman Columbarium Inscriptions"
Jan. 23, 12pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - CSACH - Books, Swords, and Holy Relics: The Colonial Looting of South Asian Heritage - A talk by Prof. Nur Sobers-Khan - Register
Jan. 28, 12-1:30pm on Zoom - Feminist Lunch Series - Whose Family Law? Intersectionality in the Canadian Context
February 2026
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
March 2026
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
April 2026
Apr. 8, UTM - Historical Studies Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference - details to come!
Apr. 9-11, 1:00pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Conference "Ensuring Continuity in a World of Uncertainty and Risk: Taking Precaution and Making Provisions in the Roman World"
For a list of events from prior academic years, visit our Past Events page.
