Articles tagged with: Social Sciences Day

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

  Friday, December 05, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

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

  Thursday, December 05, 2024 | By cszczepanowski

  

  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.

   

  Tags: Events, Lyn Trudeau, Margot Francis, Presentations, Social Sciences Day, WGST Faculty
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• December 7, 2023 – Exploring Justice Through Various Perspectives: How Can Women’s and Gender Studies Create a Less Violent World for All?

  Thursday, December 07, 2023 | By cszczepanowski

  

  The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies welcomes students to Social Sciences Day 2023! Students will explore how Women’s and Gender Studies can create a less violent world for all with a lecture from Associate Professor Dr. Hijin Park. Dr. Park’s lecture will explore the questions: How does society define safety and violence in ways that ignore marginalized people? What would happen if we prioritized the needs of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people? What if we abolished prisons and defunded the police? Should we eliminate sex and gender from identity documents?

  This presentation will include an introduction to student life by Kaleigh Evans, and an exploration of careers in Women’s and Gender Studies by Caitlin Szczepanowski.

  Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 10:35am to 12:10pm
  Academic South Room 217 at Brock University

  The Women’s and Gender Studies session will also feature an introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies and an examination of possible career outcomes for Women’s and Gender Studies students. This session 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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