Articles tagged with: Online Events

• March 16, 2023 – Indigenous Responses to the Criminalization of HIV, a Screening of “HIV: Healing Inner Voices”

  Thursday, March 16, 2023 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Join us for a presentation by Flo Rainville, an HIV+ survivor and Indigenous sexuality activist, “Indigenous Responses to the Criminalization of HIV,” and a screening of the award-winning film “HIV Healing Inner Voices” (2020).

  Thursday, March 16, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
  Online event, connect via Zoom at: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/5333129514

  Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Indigenous Education; Office of the Vice Provost, Indigenous Engagement; President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED).

  Tags: Events, Films, Online Events, Presentations
  Categories: News and Events

• March 8, 2023 – Imagining Black and Indigenous Futurities

  Wednesday, March 08, 2023 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Imagining Black and Indigenous Futurities

  Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with Black & Indigenous scholars, activists, and artists. This virtual panel includes short presentations, a round-table discussion & Q&A.

  March 8, 2023, from 11:00am to 1:00pm
  This is an online event. Please register through EventBrite.

  Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Council for Research in the Social Sciences, Social Justice Research Institute, and President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights. Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED).

  Learn more about our panelists below:
  

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  Tags: Events, International Women's Day, Online Events, Panels, Presentations
  Categories: News and Events

• March 22, 2022 – A Virtual Conversation with Filmmaker Courtney Montour on her film “Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again”

  Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | By cszczepanowski

  

  A Virtual Conversation with Filmmaker Courtney Montour

  Courtney Montour (Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk]) works in documentary film and digital media exploring issues of Indigenous identity. Her work includes the documentaries Sex Spirit Strength (2016) and Flat Rocks (2017) and episodes of the documentary series Mohawk Ironworkers (2016) and Skindigenous (2021). She co-created and coordinated McGill University’s Indigenous Field Studies course, held in Kahnawake, for eight years.

  Montour will discuss her award-winning documentary film Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (National Film Board of Canada, 2021, 34 min.). The film shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.

  Tuesday, March 22, 2022, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm

  The film will include have American Sign Language interpretation and be made available to registrants in advance.
  This is an online event. Please register through EventBrite.

  Co-cosponsored by Brock University Faculty of Humanities Dean’s Discretionary Fund; Department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film; Department of History; Centre for Canadian Studies; Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Indigenous Studies; Office of the Vice Provost, Indigenous Engagement. Special thanks to Donna Cowan of the National Film Board for her assistance.

  Tags: Events, Online Events, Presentations
  Categories: News and Events

• December 1, 2020 – Vivek Shraya in Conversation: What I’ve Learned in 10 Years

  Tuesday, December 01, 2020 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Vivek Shraya in Conversation: What I’ve Learning in 10 Years

  Join us as Vivek Shraya reflects on her journey and experience as a multidisciplinary trans, queer artist of colour since self-publishing her first book, God Loves Hair in 2010. Engage in a reading, discussion and Q&A!

  Tuesday, December 1, 2020, from 5:00pm to 6:30pm
  This in an online event. Please register though ExperienceBU

  Presented by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights and Equity Office, and Brock University Student Union.

  Tags: Events, Online Events, Vivek Shraya
  Categories: News and Events

• November 5, 2020 – Neither, Nor: How To Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps with Ivan Coyote

  Thursday, November 05, 2020 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps

  All are invited to this free virtual event with Ivan Coyote.

  Thursday, November 5th, 2020, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
  This is an online event. For more information, please visit FirstOntarioPAC.ca or QueerEvents.ca

  Presented by Creative Writing at Brock University, in partnership with the Brock University Faculty Association, Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Social Justice Research Institute, Human Rights and Equity Office, Women’s Campus Safety Grant, OutNiagara, and FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.

  Tags: Events, Online Events, Transgender Day of Remembrance
  Categories: News and Events

• December 6, 2018 – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women: Intersectional Approaches to Police Violence

  Thursday, December 06, 2018 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Join us for this panel for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on Intersectional Approaches to Police Violence.

  Anti-Black Racism, Policing, and the Negative Impact on the Black Community
  Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, Visiting Professor at Ryerson, 2017-2018

  The McArthur Murders: Advocating Against Official Indifference to Institutional Change
  Haran Vijayanathan, Executive Director, Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention

  Overpoliced and Underprotected: Indigenous People and Colonial Policing
  Dr. Robyn Bourgeois, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Brock University

  Moderated by Leela MadhavaRau, Director, Human Rights and Equity, Brock University

  Thursday, December 5, 2018, from 12:00pm to 2:00pm
  South Hall 203 at Brock University

  Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights and Equity Office, Tecumseh Centre for Indigenous Research and Education, Student Justice Centre, Ontario Public Interest Research Group, Brock University Student Union, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, Brock University Faculty Association, and Graduate Student Association.

  Tags: Events, National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Online Events, Panels, Robyn Bourgeois, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events