Events
2020-21 EVENTS CALENDAR
September 2020
Sept. 25 (2020), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Rome, India, China: Comparison and Meaning in the Relief Sculpture of Late Ancient Eurasia' - Jaś Elsner
Oct.2020
Oct. 6 (2020), 7-8 p.m., (Register to View) - Snider Lecture UTM - Abolish the Police, Abolish Prisons: Black liberation in a time of revolt - Robyn Maynard
Oct. 6 (2020), 7-8:15 p.m., (via Virtual Library WebEx) - Lecture Me! Series - Pathologizing Iran and Islam - Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Oct. 7 (2020), 11 a.m.-1 p.m., (Register to join) - HSS Event - Professor Meet & Greet
Oct. 8 (2020), 4:30-5:30 p.m., (Register to join) - Welcome Back Social Hour
Oct. 9 (2020), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The Gender of Ancient Greek Music' - Mark Griffith
Oct. 16 (2020), 4-5:30 p.m., (Info & Registration) - C4E Flash Event, Race/Ethics/Power - #Say Her Name... Breonna Taylor! Race, Ethics & "Justice"? - A Dialogue with Beverly Bain, Idil Abdillahi, and El Jones
Oct. 30 (2020), 12-1:30 p.m., (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series - Home Care Fault LInes: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances - Cynthia J. Cranford
Oct. 30 (2020), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Oracular Failure in Ancient Greek Culture' - Esther Eidinow
Nov. 2020
Nov. 4 (2020), 10 a.m.-12 p.m., (Register Here for online delivery) - CSAC Workshop - 'Race and Caste': A Conversation with Achille Mbembe and Suraj Yengde
Nov. 16 (2020), 11:30am-12:30 p.m., (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series - Queer Crip Crossroads: Disability Activism in Toronto's LGBTQ community - Nicholas Hrynyk
Nov. 20 (2020), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The New Normal? Bodies Beyond the Classical Body' - Caroline Vout
December 2020
Dec. 3 (2020), 4-6 p.m., (online delivery) - The ArQuives' Trans Collections Guidline Launch - A roundtable discussion on the trans holdings of The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archive, and the histories and futures of trans archival practices
Jan.2021
Jan. 15 (2021), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The Extremist Ethics of Cicero's De Officiis' - Ingo Gildenhard
Jan. 15 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - A History of Iranian Women’s Poetry (in Persian)| تاریخ شعر زنان - Rohangiz Karachi, Humanities and Cultural Studies Institute, Tehran
Jan. 22 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - The City in Film: Imagining Post-WWII Iran in Film-Farsi Popular Cinema - Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Seton Hall University
Jan. 29 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Feminine Interventions: Early Qajar Women Poets and Their Engagement with the Bazgasht-i adabi - Dominic Brookshaw, Oxford University
Jan. 30 (2021), 10am-12pm (online delivery) - Centre for South Asian Civilizations - A conversation with Afra Khanum Sherwani, "Journalism in a Time of Uprising: The Farmers' Protest and Dissent in Contemporary India"
Feb. 2021
Feb. 5 (2021), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Theory of Mind and Ancient Greek Religious Experience' - Sarah Iles-Johnston
Feb. 5 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - The International Reception of Iranian Cinema, 2000-2013 - Anne Demy-Geroe, Griffith University
Feb. 12 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Forugh Farrokhzad, Modernity and Madness - Leila Rahimi Bahmany, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Feb. 19 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social Realism: A Close Look at Her Documentary Films - Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Lancaster University
Feb. 26 (2021), 1-4 p.m., (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Daily Life in the Shadow of Late Antique Decline: Urban Case Studies from Apulia' - Darian Totten
Feb. 26 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Shame, Stigma and Sin: From Tahirih, to Forugh, to Us - Sholeh Wolpé, University of California, Irvine
March 2021
Mar. 2 (2021), 11:30-1:00 p.m., (online delivery) - Feminist Lunch Series - A Reading and Performance by Kama La Mackerel - Based on their new book of poetry: ZOM - FAM
Mar. 5 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Precarity and Possibility: The Labor of Underground Video Dealers in Iran - Blake Atwood, American University of Beirut
Mar. 12 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Sonia Balassanian: Writing the Impossible - Claudia Yaghoobi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
March 19 (2021), 1-4 p.m. (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Hasiod's Religious Norms in Context: On Works and Days 724-760' - Ivana Petrovic & Andrej Petrovic
Mar. 19 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Pioneer Female Directors, Writers and Producers in Iranian Cinema - Khatereh Shaibani, York University
April 2021
Apr. 9 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Women Depicting Freedom of Movement in Iranian Cinema - Nacim Pak-Shiraz, University of Edinburgh - Zoom Meeting: http://bit.ly/3hStflK; Meeting ID: 826 7022 9465; Passcode: BwN1x3
Apr. 16 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Women Poets: Gendered Personhood and Displacement - Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of Pennsylvania - Zoom Meeting: http://bit.ly/3ooCVqT; Meeting ID: 878 0372 1442; Passcode: z0FMKF
Apr. 23 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - From Golden City to Felestin: The Onomastics of Cinema Halls in Tehran - Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, University of Tehran - Zoom Meeting: http://bit.ly/3pTtCzxv; Meeting ID: 852 6373 6898; Passcode: J3QauY
Apr. 30 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Documenting a Tradition: Anthologies of Persian(ate) Poetry by Women - Sunil Sharma, Boston University - Zoom Meeting: http://bit.ly/3omp30l; Meeting ID: 810 3835 3326; Passcode: djn6Te
May 2021
May 7 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Allegory and Allegoresis in Iranian Cinema - Michelle Langford, University of New South Wales - Zoom Meeting: http://bit.ly/3bn0aOb; Meeting ID: 876 8335 2395; Passcode: Li7ft3
