Past Events
2021-22 Past Events
November 2021
November 18, 2021 - 12-1:30pm - (HSS Event) - Graduate School Panel
November 18, 2021 - 3pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Sensory Aspects of the Beyond in Ottoman Tombs with Dr. Nina Macaraig
November 20, 2021 - 7:30-9pm - (CSAC Event) - Trucks, Trollies and Tents
November 26, 2021 - 10am-6pm - (CSAC Event) - Marxism in South Asia Workshop
December 2021
December 6, 2021 - 1pm (6pm UK time) - Book Launch for Martin Revermann's Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics - email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk
January 2022
January 28, 2022 - 12-2pm - Feminist Lunch: Digital Governmentatlity/l Affective Islamophobia among Hindu Nationalist and White Supremacist Groups on Twitter - Zeinab Farokhi
February 2022
February 9, 2022 - 4-6pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Making Sense of the Sekaśubhodayā: A Sanskrit Text in an Islamic Shrine Complex of Old Bengal with Dr. Ayesha Irani
February 16, 2022 - 1-2pm - Annual Desmond Morton Research Excellence Lecture - Martin Revermann - The Theatre of Science
February 16, 2022 - 6pm - (Black & African Studies, UTM) - Screening and Discussion of landmark feature film RUDE - Clement Virgo
February 17, 2022 - 4-6pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Visiting the Footprint of the Prophet: Localizing Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Mughal India with Dr. Usman Hamid
February 18, 2022 - 12-2pm - (HSS) - ROP & Independent Studies Information Session - Faculty & Student Panels
March 2022
March 4, 2022 - 2-4pm - Book Launch for Nicole Charles - Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados - Register Here
March 4, 2022 - 2-4pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Incremental Building: Tehran's Azadi Square as a Permanently Tentative Monumental Stage with Dr. Zohreh Soltani - Register Here
March 8, 2022 - 11-1pm - WGSS Presents International Women's Day Panel: "Feminist Ethics of Care in a Time of Pandemic" - Speakers Mercy Lillian, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, & Cornel Grey - Join: Meeting URL: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84988901758 Meeting ID: 849 8890 1758 Passcode: 224535
March 11, 2022 - 3-5pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Death in the City: Funerary Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim South Asia with Dr. Fatima Quraishi - Register Here
March 17, 2022 - 3-5pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - The Mosque in the Qur'an with Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri - Register Here
March 29, 2022 - 1pm - WGSS Feminist Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Peel Institute for Violence Prevention, Family Service Peel - Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality with Dr. Oliva Espín - Register Here
April 2022
April 7 & 8, 2022 - online symposium - Visualising Pleasure and Practices of Freedom - Information & Registration Here
2020-21 Past Events
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
Apr. 16 (2021), 4 p.m., (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Women Poets: Gendered Personhood and Displacement - Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of Pennsylvania
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
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
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
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"
