Articles tagged with: Presentations

  • March 26, 2026 – Artful Resilience: Moving Beyond Denialism

    As part of the ongoing commitment to residential school denialism and honouring Indigenous survivance, resilience, and good relations, the Decolonization Working Group of PACHRED is hosting Artful Resilience: Moving Beyond Denialism on Thursday, March 26, 2026.

    They invite students, staff, and faculty to share their creative work at a community art gathering. All art forms are welcome (music, poetry, visual art, storytelling, performance, and more) as ways of remembering, witnessing, and imagining otherwise together. Everyone is invited to join in learning.

    The first 15 artists to register will be invited to share their work for up to 5 minutes each. This gathering is meant to be a respectful, supportive space for creative expression, reflection, and connection. Each presenting artist will receive a $50 Tim Horton’s gift card as an expression of gratitude and appreciation. To begin the process of registering as an artist, apply through the artists’ registration on ExperienceBU.

    Faculty, staff, and students who wish to attend should register through the general event registration on ExperienceBU. Community members are invited to email Allison at [email protected].

    Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm
    Goodman Atrium at Brock University

    Dinner will be catered by Nokomis Eve’s Traditional Foods. 

    Hosted by: the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization’s Decolonization Working Group. Sponsored by: the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Office of Human Rights and Equity, Indigenous Educational Studies, and the Vice-Provost of Indigenous Engagement.

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  • February 11, 2026 – Special Gathering to Honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People

    Join students from the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies for a meaningful gathering dedicated to remembrance, reflection, and education in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people. This event is grounded in creating a respectful space to acknowledge the lives lost, the ongoing violence faced by Indigenous communities, and the systemic failures that continue to enable this crisis.

    Participants will have the opportunity to hear from Dr. Lyn Trudeau, who will reflect on the significance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people and the importance of remembrance, relationality, and care. Dr. Jennifer Brant will further contribute to the learning and community presence at the event. Following these reflections, participants will take part in creating red paper dresses, each accompanied by a short note to honour those who have been lost and to acknowledge the ongoing impacts of colonial violence and gender-based harm against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people. This gathering aims to foster collective reflection, learning, and solidarity through both dialogue and creative engagement.

    A free lunch will be provided. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to ensure the Centre is able to provide enough free food and refreshments. This event is open to everyone.

    Wednesday, February 11, 2026, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm
    Cairn’s Complex room 207 at Brock University

    Hosted by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.

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  • December 5, 2025 – Whose Safety Matters? Anti-racist Feminist and Queer/Trans Perspectives on Gendered Violence

    Welcome to Social Sciences Day 2025! In this presentation on Whose Safety Matters? Anti-racist Feminist and Queer/Trans Perspectives on Gendered Violence, students will learn from Dr. Hijin Park and Dr. Margot Francis about gendered violence from perspectives studied in our program.

    Dr. Hijin Park‘s lecture will examine how a decolonial and intersectional analysis of violence assist us to better understand violence, and address questions such as: how is violence systemic rather than individual and random, and are there alternatives to locking-up perpetrators?

    With Dr. Margot Francis, explore why trans and queer lives are now up for debate everywhere from the US presidential election, to provincial politics in Canada. How does this media, and political and legislative violence impact the everyday realities of queer and trans people, and how are we fighting back?

    Caitlin Szczepanowski will provide a welcome and give an introduction to the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.

    Friday, December 5, 2025, from 10:35am to 1:00pm
    Goodman School of Business Room 406 at Brock University

    This presentation is part of a larger event and is designed to give high school students the chance to experience a typical university lecture/class for programs in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Sessions are assigned and only available to classes and schools registered for the event. For more information on Social Sciences Day, contact the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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  • November 5, 2025 – Medicine on the Frontlines: Healthcare and Palestinian Statehood

    Join us in Recital Hall at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre for Medicine on the Frontlines: Healthcare and Palestinian Statehood, an evening with Dr. Tarek Loubani.

    Dr. Loubani is a Palestinian Canadian physician, an associate professor at the Schulich School of Medicine at Western University, and co-founder of GLIA, a global innovator of high-quality medical equipment operating on the principle that quality healthcare should be accessible to all. For the past fifteen years Dr. Loubani has trained medical staff in Gaza and worked at Nasser Hospital this summer. He will discuss the systemic destruction of Palestinian healthcare infrastructure in a time of genocide and how local-global alliances can build support for Palestinian life, sovereignty, and statehood.

    Wednesday, November 5, 2025, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
    Recital Hall at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
    250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON

    This is a FREE event! Please register on Eventbrite or ExperienceBU

    Download a PDF of this poster to share.

    Co-sponsored by: The President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization; Social Justice Research Institute; Faculty for Palestine – Brock Chapter; Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies; Indigenous Educational Studies at Brock University; Zanab Jafry Shah; Niagara Movement for Justice in Palestine/Israel; 905 Palestine, Independent Jewish Voices – Hamilton; Jewish Faculty Network – Southwest Ontario; Silver Spire Church; and Muslim Medical Association of Canada (MMAC)—Niagara Chapter.

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  • March 19, 2025 – “Without Equity, There is No Quality,” presented by Dr. Adom Bondzi-Simpson for the Yosif Al-Hasnawi Memorial Lecture Series: Promoting Racial Justice in Health Care

    Without Equity, There is No Quality: Exploring Population-level Disparities in Surgical Outcomes for Cancer and Trauma Patients in Ontario: A Call to Action,” presented by Dr. Adom Bondzi-Simpson.

    The Yosif Al-Hasnawi Memorial Lecture Series: Promoting Racial Justice in Health Care is named in memory of a first-year Medical Sciences student who died in the service of another in 2017. Yosif Al-Hasnawi had dreams of becoming a doctor and hoped to one day make a difference in the world.

    Wednesday, March 19, 2025, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
    Goodman Atrium at Brock University

    Sponsored by the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences; the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization; and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University.

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  • December 5, 2024 – Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies: Indigenous Feminist and Queer/Trans Perspectives on Gendered Violence

    The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies invites students to explore how intersecting ideas about gender, colonialism, race, class, sexuality and the body shape experience, ideology, institutions, and culture at Social Sciences Day 2024. In this presentation on issues in Women’s and Gender Studies, students will develop a critical awareness of gendered violence, activism, and resistance through Indigenous Feminisms and queer/trans perspectives through lectures by Associate Professor Dr. Margot Francis and Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau.

    Margot Francis‘ lecture will explore why trans and queer lives are now up for debate everywhere from the US presidential election, to provincial politics and local school boards in Canada. It poses the questions: how does this media, and political and legislative violence impact the everyday realities of queer and trans people, and how are we fighting back?

    The Anishinaabe Peoples embrace the concept Seven Forward Seven Back. In Lyn Trudeau‘s lecture, feminisms will be explored through this lens; alongside, the emergence of art, activism, and other-than human relations as it pertains to Indigenous Feminisms.

    An introduction to the session and Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies will be provided by Caitlin Szczepanowski.

    Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 10:30am to 1:00pm
    Goodman School of Business Room 408 at Brock University

    This presentation is part of a larger event and is designed to give high school students the chance to experience a typical university lecture/class for programs in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Sessions are assigned and only available to classes and schools registered for the event. For more information on Social Sciences Day, contact the Faculty of Social Sciences.

     

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  • November 14, 2024 – “Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR,” presented by Dr. Diana Cucuz

    Join us for a talk as part of the Department of History Speaker Series, “Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR,” presented by Dr. Diana Cucuz of Toronto Metropolitan University and Brock University.

    Thursday, November 14, 2024, from 11:00am to 12:30pm
    Sankey Chamber at Brock University

    Register on ExperienceBU. For more information, visit ExperienceBU or contact Melissa Vanatte at [email protected].

    Light refreshments will be served, and a discount code for ordering books will be available.

    Co-sponsored by Department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film; Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Ph.D. Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities.

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  • October 31, 2024 – “The Art of Health Justice,” presented by Dr. Nisha Sanjnani for the Yosif Al-Hasnawi Memorial Lecture Series: Promoting Racial Justice in Health Care

    The Art of Health Justice,” presented by Dr. Nisha Sanjnani.

    The Yosif Al-Hasnawi Memorial Lecture Series: Promoting Racial Justice in Health Care is named in memory of a first-year Medical Sciences student who died in the service of another in 2017. Yosif Al-Hasnawi had dreams of becoming a doctor and hoped to one day make a difference in the world.

    Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
    Goodman Atrium at Brock University

    Sponsored by the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED), Social Justice and Equity Studies MA (SJES), and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) at Brock University.

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  • October 28, 2024 – Disrupting Racialized-Gendered Normative Identification in a Feminist Classroom

    Join us for the second talk of the Work-in-Progress Series in the PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Disrupting Racialized-Gendered Normative Identification in a Feminist Classroom,” presented by Alia Wazzan.

    Alia Wazzan is a teaching assistant in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program, specializing in postcolonial feminism. As a postcolonial feminist educator, Alia will demonstrate how implicit and normalized racialized-gendered discourses of Othering infiltrate classroom discussions and how teaching assistants/instructors can subvert them. The presentation contributes to the often fraught debates on achieving safe and inclusive classroom environments for students from diverse backgrounds.

    Monday, October 28, 2024, from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
    International Centre Building Room 111 at Brock University

    This presentation will also be available virtually through Teams. For more information, see Interdisciplinary Humanities.

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  • April 6, 2024 – YWCA Annual Niagara Leadership Summit For Women

    Join for an exciting all-day event of speakers and workshops at the YWCA’s 10th Annual Niagara Leadership Summit For Women!

    The Niagara Leadership Summit For Women presents an inclusive environment to encourage and celebrate women leaders in our community and opens the conversation surrounding women’s issues in Niagara. The event is hosted by the YWCA Niagara Region.

    Everyone, regardless of gender, should have the courage and confidence to be the leader they are and want to be. Leadership is not about being ‘at the top’—there are leaders all around us who make a difference every day. This event offers many valuable opportunities for women leaders and allies to connect, share common goals and evaluate common challenges, and network with like-minded community leaders.

    This year’s theme of Bold and Unapologetic encourages women leaders to be authentic, assert their worth, and unapologetically pursue their goals and aspirations. It’s about fostering a culture where women feel empowered to lead without constantly apologizing for their success or feeling the need to downplay their achievements. The goal is to redefine leadership norms, challenge biases, and create a more inclusive and equitable environment for women in leadership positions.

    Saturday, April 6, 2024, from 9:00am to 4:00pm
    Thistle Hallway at Brock University, with speakers in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre
    Tickets are $30 per person and will include lunch and free childcare.

    For more information on ticket purchasing, the program, speakers, workshops, and frequently asked questions, visit the YWCA Niagara Region’s event page.

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