Past Events
2019 Past Events
March 2019
Friday, March 8 (2019), 10 a.m.-7 p.m., McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology (St. George Campus) - Symposium - Transnational Feminism in the Age of Digital Islamophobia
Thursday, March 7 (2019), 3:30-6 p.m., MiST Theatre (UTM) - The Technoscience Salon - Black Technoscience "Here" - #BlackGirlMagic: On Disability and Possibility in the Digital Age with Dr. Moya Bailey of Northeastern University - Special performance by Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers
Thursday, March 7 (2019), 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Spigel Hall (UTM) - 2nd Annual Prandium Undergraduate Conference
Thursday, March 21 (2019), 9 a.m.-5 p.m., David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place (St. George Campus) - Symposium - Indigenous Intersections with Dr. Jed Kuhn moderating
2018 Past Events
November 2018
Thursday, Nov. 15, 12-2 p.m. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: #METOO with Professor Beverly Bain
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5-7 p.m. Davis Building (DV 2082) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Had-Anhad (in Urdu with English subtitles) - All are welcome!
Monday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. MiST Theatre (CCT Building 150) - CSAC presents: The Poetry of Amazement, An Evening with Vikram Chandra.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 5:30-8 p.m. New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Nikaah (in Urdu with English subtitles) - All are welcome!
October 2018
Classics and the World Today 3 (CaWT3):
Thursday, Oct. 25, 5:15 p.m, Instructional Centre (IB 120) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): Local Identities, Movement, and Global Connections in Antiquity. In this public event, Prof. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) will present their work to ask to what extent discussing the world of the Ancient Greek and Roman Mediterranean can contribute to our current society. This event is geared towards encouraging discussions between undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni and the broader public. A reception will follow.
Friday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., New North Building (NE 4107) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): A Workshop in Methodologies. Prof. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) will lead a workshop in methodologies for investigating identities and global connections in antiquity.
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 12-1 p.m. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics: Vaccines, Suspicion and Felt Protection with Prof. Nicole Charles
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 5:30-8 p.m. New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: The Chess Player (In Urdu with English subtitles)
Saturday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., MiST Theatre - Film & Concert - Hari OM Tatsat - Tickets are $20 for Adults and $10 for Students
The Many Lives of Aurangzeb Workshop:
Thursday, Oct. 4, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., New North Building (NE 4207) - Graduate Workshop on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Religious ‘Controversy’ in South Asian Religious History
Friday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Jackman Humanities Building (UTSG) - Student Presentations
Friday, Oct. 5, 4-6 p.m., Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 5 Bancroft Street (UTSG) - Muzaffar Alam, Persian in the Age of Mughal Decline: A Reevaluation
September 2018
Sunday, Sept. 30, 2:30 p.m., Davis Building (UTM Room - DV3140) - On the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali - lecture given by visiting pandit H.V. Nagaraja Rao - This lecture will be followed with a tribute to the late Professor Tuppil Venkatacharya (In 2017, the Professor Tuppil Venkatacharya Trust was established at the University of Toronto to support the preservation, dissemination and study of Sanskrit and South Asian heritage and culture, making events like this possible.)
Thursday, Sept. 20, 3 p.m., North Building (NE4207) - The Spirit of the Sepoy Host - free talk given by Priyamvada Gopal (Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature at the University of Cambridge)
Monday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., Mist Theatre - REASON, a film by Anand Patwardhan - free screening and discussion with the film maker.
May 2018
Friday, May 11, 2018 (LAS):
Truthfulness in Photography: The Photoplastic Mexican Montages of Josef Albers
Thursday, May 3-5, 2018:
International Conference on Religion & Film:
April 2018
April 26 - May 26, 2018:
Queering Family Photography: Roundtable
Wednesday, April 4, 2018:
RLG401H: Lectures on Religion and Literature
March 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018 (CSAC):
Centre for South Asian Civilizations and Politics Research Workshop: Left Politics in South Asia - Past, Present, Future.
Friday, March 23, 2018 (HSS):
#FNLROM: EQUINOX
Friday, March 23, 2018:
HIS498Y: History Internship Student Presentations
Friday, March 23, 2018:
RLG401H: Lectures on Religion and Literature - Topics include: video games, Watchmen, Superman, Star Wars and zombie comics.
Thursday, March 22 & Friday, March 23, 2018 - MENA Conference (WGS):
International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism”, March 22 and 23, 2018.
Monday, March 19, 2018 (HSS):
First Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference
Friday, March 16, 2018:
HIS498Y: History Internship Student Presentations
Thursday, March 15, 2018:
Classics and the World Today 2: Authority and Non-Conformity in the Ancient World
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 (HSS):
Defiant Braceros - Dr. Mireya Loza
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 (CSAC):
Colloquium Keynote: Aesthesia and Anaesthesia in Vaisnava Liturgy and Metaphysics - Dr. Ronald Inden
Tuesday, March 13, 2018:
Colloquium: Humanity is the Measure of All Things: A Colloquium Exploring Late Antiquity's Intellectual and Spiritual Diversity
Friday, March 9, 2018 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks):
Policing Black Lives: Panel with Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, Beverly Bain of WGS, and Sheena Hoszko, Sculptor and Anti-Prison Organizer
Thursday, March 8, 2018:
Lecture with Dr. Jessica Stites Mor: Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Latin America
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 (WGS):
Lecture with Dr. Sirma Bilge: Minority Knowledges, Academic Entrepreneurial Selves, and Neoliberal University: Learning from the Institutional Trajectories of Intersectionality
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 (CSAC):
Screening of the award-winning film Chauthi Koot
Friday, March 2, 2018 (HSS):
Historical Studies Society Annual Trivia Night
Friday, March 2, 2018 (HSS):
Historical Studies Society General Meeting
Thursday, March 1, 2018 (HSS):
HSS Presents: Seeing Capitalism's Ghosts: Labour, Migration, and Human Rights in 20th Century United States - Erica Toffoli
February 2018
Monday, Feb. 26, 2018:
Paper Proposals for the First Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference Due
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018:
Humanities and Social Sciences Career Night
January 2018
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 (CSAC):
RAJAN! Movie Night
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 (HSS):
HSS General Meeting
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018 (HSS):
HSS Presentation of Victor Frankenstein
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks Series):
Indigenizing Institutions - Jill Carter, Tarah Hogue, Denise Booth McLeod, and Kris Noakes - Moderated by Nicole Laliberte
2017 Past Events
December 2017
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017:
EXAM JAM!
November 2017
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):
Exclusive screening of Warehoused: The Forgotten Refugees of Dadaab
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks Series):
Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV - Jessica Lynn Whitbread and Mercy Lillian Gichuki
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017:
Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi , Orientalism and Occidentalism Undergraduate Symposium
Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017:
Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Theory and Praxis with Dr. Gabrielle Hosein and Dr. Lisa Outar
Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017:
Kudiyattam: Ancient Drama in the Present
Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017:
Professor Julie MacArthur, Borders Matter: Mapping and Unmapping African History - part of TEDxUTM 2017.
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017:
Professor Julie MacArthur, Screening History (HIS211) - Special Guest, acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo (TV series, The Book of Negroes)
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017:
Professor Emeritus Robert Johnson - October Surprise: The Global Impact of the 1917 October Revolution
Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):
#FNLROM: VALHALLA
October 2017
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017:
Conference on South Asian Religions
Friday, Oct. 6, 2017:
Conference on South Asian Religions
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017:
Professor Chris Petrakos - "The Joke's on Them: Laughter and Social Boundaries in Klondike Miner's Tales, 1886-1896" - Part of the UTM EEO Lecture Me! Series
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2017:
Dr. Hossein Elahi Ghomshei - "On the Nature of Poetry"
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017:
"Invisible No More" by Andrea J. Ritchie - Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):
AGO - Featured: the Guillermo Del Toro Exhibit
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society:
Professors Cowan, Petrakos, and Derry - 95 Theses 500th Anniversary Panel
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2017:
Dr. Leonard Lewisohn - "Sufism & the Religion of Love"
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2017:
Dr. Jane Lewisohn - "Preserving and Archiving Persian Performing Arts and Literature"