2017-2018 Past Events 

2018 Past Events

November 2018

Thursday, November 15, 12:00-2:00pm. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: #METOO with Professor Beverly Bain

Wednesday, November 14, 5:00-7:00pm. Davis Building (DV 2082) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Had-Anhad (in Urdu with English subtitles) - All are welcome!

Monday, November 12, 7:00pm. MiST Theatre (CCT Building 150) - CSAC presents: The Poetry of Amazement, An Evening with Vikram Chandra. 

Tuesday, November 6, 5:30-8:00pm. 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, October 25, 5:15pm, 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, October 26, 10am-4:30pm, 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, October 23, 12:00-1:00pm. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics: Vaccines, Suspicion and Felt Protection with Prof. Nicole Charles

Tuesday, October 16, 5:30-8:00pm. New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: The Chess Player (In Urdu with English subtitles)

Saturday, October 6, 7pm, MiST Theatre - Film & Concert - Hari OM Tatsat - Tickets are $20 for Adults and $10 for Students

The Many Lives of Aurangzeb Workshop: 

Thursday, October 4, 9:00am - 4:30pm, New North Building (NE 4207) - Graduate Workshop on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Religious ‘Controversy’ in South Asian Religious History

Friday, October 5, 9:00am - 12:30pm, Jackman Humanities Building (UTSG) - Student Presentations

Friday, October 5, 4:00 - 6:00pm, 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, September 30, 2:30pm, 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, September 20, 3pm, 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, September 17, 6pm, 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 22nd and 23rd, 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, February 26, 2018:

Paper Proposals for the First Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference Due 

Thursday, February 1, 2018:

Humanities and Social Sciences Career Night 

January 2018

Friday, January 26, 2018 (CSAC):

RAJAN! Movie Night

Friday, January 26, 2018 (HSS):

HSS General Meeting 

Thursday, January 25, 2018 (HSS):

HSS Presentation of Victor Frankenstein 

Wednesday, January 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, December 5, 2017:

EXAM JAM! 

November 2017

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):

 Exclusive screening of Warehoused: The Forgotten Refugees of Dadaab 

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks Series):

Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV - Jessica Lynn Whitbread and Mercy Lillian Gichuki

Tuesday, November 28, 2017:

Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi , Orientalism and Occidentalism Undergraduate Symposium 

Thursday, November 16, 2017:

Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Theory and Praxis with Dr. Gabrielle Hosein and Dr. Lisa Outar

Sunday, November 12, 2017:

 Kudiyattam: Ancient Drama in the Present

Saturday, November 11, 2017:

 Professor Julie MacArthur, Borders Matter: Mapping and Unmapping African History - part of TEDxUTM 2017.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017:

Professor Julie MacArthur, Screening History (HIS211) - Special Guest, acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo (TV series, The Book of Negroes) 

Tuesday, November 7, 2017:

Professor Emeritus Robert Johnson - October Surprise: The Global Impact of the 1917 October Revolution 

Friday, November 3, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):

 #FNLROM: VALHALLA

October 2017

Thursday, October 5, 2017:

Conference on South Asian Religions

Friday, October 6, 2017:

Conference on South Asian Religions

Tuesday, October 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, October 25, 2017:

Dr. Hossein Elahi Ghomshei - "On the Nature of Poetry" 

Thursday, October 26, 2017:

"Invisible No More" by Andrea J. Ritchie - Book Launch and Panel Discussion 

Thursday, October 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society):

AGO - Featured: the Guillermo Del Toro Exhibit

Thursday, October 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society:

Professors Cowan, Petrakos, and Derry - 95 Theses 500th Anniversary Panel 

Thursday, October 27, 2017:

Dr. Leonard Lewisohn - "Sufism & the Religion of Love" 

Thursday, October 28, 2017:

Dr. Jane Lewisohn - "Preserving and Archiving Persian Performing Arts and Literature"