You are invited to “Me and My Work,” a lecture by Shelley Niro (Mohawk, Turtle Clan, Six Nations), winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2017), and the Scotiabank Photography Award (2017).
Tuesday, October 31, 2017, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Thistle Complex Room 246 at Brock University
Co-sponsored by Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Tecumseh Centre for Indigenous Research and Education, and the Department of Sociology.
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Join us at “Decolonize and Deconstruct: Imagining New Approaches to Sexuality and Consent Education,” facilitating discussion to create intersectional and inclusive strategies for consent education.
Opening and welcome to the territory:
Carol Jacob (Six Nations)
Jane Theriault-Norman (Mik’maq/Irish)
Panelists:
Khadijeh Rakie (Equity and Inclusion Office, McMaster)
, “Islamophobia and Gender Violence”
Jennie Anderson (Six Nations Polytechnic), “Indigenous perspectives on Gender Violence”
Ameil Joseph (School of Social Work, McMaster), “
Mental Health and Gender Violence
Kermeisha Williams (Black Lives Matter, Hamilton), “
Racism and Gender Violence”
Thursday, March 30, 2017, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Academic South Room 201 Brock University
Contact [email protected] to learn more or to apply for childcare funds.
Co-sponsored the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights and Equity Services, the Student Justice Centre, and the Social Justice Research Institute, with funding from the Women’s Campus Safety Fund.
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Join us for a special presenation: “Culture, Family, and Power: Community-Based Research to Generate Knowledge on Sexual Health and HIV Presentation Among Women,” featuring speaker Dr. Roula Hawa.
Thursday, February 16, 2017, from 11:00am to 12:30pm
Cairns Atrium Room 336 at Brock University
Co-sponsored the Department of Child and Youth Studies and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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All are welcome to a remembrance service on Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, established by Canadian parliament in 1991 in response to the murders of fourteen young women at L’École Polytechnique in Montréal on December 6th, 1989
Tuesday, December 6, 2016, at 12:00pm
Isaac’s at Brock University
Donations to Gillian’s Place would be appreciated. A sandwich buffet lunch with refreshments is available for $10. Reserve tickets through the Union offices.
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Brock University Faculty Association, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, and CUPE.
Join us for a presentation by Annette Daniels-Taylor, “Witness, Testimony, and Prophecy: A Discussion In and On Story,” featuring her short biographical film Rose Dies Friday (2019). Rose Dies Friday explores the story of slave-girl Rose Butler, born in 1799. She was the last person hung for arson in New York State, in what is now Washington Square Park, 1818.
Annette Daniels Taylor’s art practice explores storytelling. She is an award-winning writer and an active Buffalo, New York theatre artist directing, acting, and writing stage productions. As a filmmaker Annette’s cinematic poems have screened in festivals and exhibited in the United States and internationally. Annette teaches Writing for Broadcast at SUNY Buffalo State University and acting with D’Youville University’s Dramatic Theature Arts MFA program.
Monday, March 20, 2023, from 11:30am to 12:30pm
South Block Room 201 at Brock University
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Social Justice Research Institute, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Sociology, and the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED).
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