Articles tagged with: WGST Faculty

• April 5, 2025 – Screening of “Boy” for the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series

  Thursday, March 13, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

  The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology are proud to announce Dibaajimo / Tells a Story, a new curated film series to coincide with a new Indigenous Film Course (WGST 3P79) taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau. To expand the potential reach and impact of her course, Dr. Trudeau has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s programming team to curate a selection of titles covered in the course.

  Dr. Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. She is cross-appointed with Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology and affiliated with the Social Justice and Equity Program in which her work embodies a decolonial lens. This includes previous work/research with Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools. She feels it is important to honour her cultural background; therefore, embeds Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in her classrooms and research endeavours.

  Boy (2010) is the fourth film in the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story film series. Written and directed by Māori and Jewish filmmaker Taika Waititi, Boy tells the story of Boy (James Rolleston), an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984. Boy gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father (Waititi), who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

  Saturday, April 5, 2025, at 3:00pm
  FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
  250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON

  This event has reserved setting. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for Film House members. Visit the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series page at the Performing Arts Centre website to purchase a ticket and for details on all films in the series. Click here to read, download, or share the Press Release for this event.

  Presented by The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.

  Learn more about the films in the series below:

  Read more

  Tags: Events, Films, Lyn Trudeau, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• March 15, 2025 – Screening of “SGaawaay K’uuna / Edge of the Knife” for the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series

  Thursday, March 13, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

  The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology are proud to announce Dibaajimo / Tells a Story, a new curated film series to coincide with a new Indigenous Film Course (WGST 3P79) taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau. To expand the potential reach and impact of her course, Dr. Trudeau has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s programming team to curate a selection of titles covered in the course.

  Dr. Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. She is cross-appointed with Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology and affiliated with the Social Justice and Equity Program in which her work embodies a decolonial lens. This includes previous work/research with Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools. She feels it is important to honour her cultural background; therefore, embeds Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in her classrooms and research endeavours.

  SGaawaay K’uuna / Edge of the Knife (2018) is the third film in the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story film series. In a 19th-century summer, two large families gather for their annual fishing retreat on the far-removed island of Haida Gwaii. Adiitsʹii (Tyler York), a charming nobleman, causes the accidental death of his best friend Kwa’s son and hastens into the wilderness. Adiitsʹii is tormented by what he has done and spirals into insanity, becoming Gaagiixiid, a supernatural being crazed by hunger. He unexpectedly survives the winter, and at next year’s gathering, the families try to convert Gaagiixiid, back to Adiitsʹii, while Kwa (Willy Russ) also wrestles with a desire for revenge. SGaawaay K’uuna / Edge of the Knife was co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw, a Haida artist and filmmaker, and Helen Haig-Brown a Tsilhqot’in filmmaker. It is the first feature film to be made entirely in the Haida language.

  Saturday, March 15, 2025, 2025, at 3:00pm
  FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
  250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON

  This event has reserved setting. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for Film House members. Visit the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series page at the Performing Arts Centre website to purchase a ticket and for details on all films in the series. Click here to read, download, or share the Press Release for this event.

  Presented by The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.

  Learn more about the films in the series below:

  Read more

  Tags: Events, Films, Lyn Trudeau, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• March 6, 2025 – Narratives of Healing, Resilience, and Hope: Residential School Stories and Impacts

  Saturday, February 22, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Join us for a panel event, “Narratives of Healing, Resilience, and Hope: Residential School Stories and Impacts,” featuring Dr. Lyn Trudeau, Matthew Mackenzie, Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek, and Dr. Josh Manitowabi.

  This panel will hold space for narratives of residential schools and how this impacts Indigenous faculty as well as how this informs their work and practices. These conversations acknowledge historical injustices but also will speak to resiliency. Notably, how these Indigenous faculty members respond in various capacities, impacts on communities, and how they weave their own stories into their work.

  Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
  Plaza 600F at Brock University

  RSVP for this event on ExperienceBU.

  Sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization at Brock University.

  Tags: Discussions, Events, Lyn Trudeau, Panels, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• February 15, 2025 – Screening of “Abducted” for the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series

  Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

  The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology are proud to announce Dibaajimo / Tells a Story, a new curated film series to coincide with a new Indigenous Film Course (WGST 3P79) taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau. To expand the potential reach and impact of her course, Dr. Trudeau has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s programming team to curate a selection of titles covered in the course.

  Dr. Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. She is cross-appointed with Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology and affiliated with the Social Justice and Equity Program in which her work embodies a decolonial lens. This includes previous work/research with Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools. She feels it is important to honour her cultural background; therefore, embeds Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in her classrooms and research endeavours.

  Abducted (2021) is the second film in the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story film series. Written and directed by Daniel Foreman, a registered member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Abducted tells the story of how an inner-city teenage boy’s life turned upside-down when his drug-running sister goes missing. Lakota’s (Olivia Kate Iatridis) sudden disappearance leaves Derrick (Joel Oulette) to piece together the clues of her abduction. Derrick experiences visions which he struggles to understand but which help him on his quest to find her. As he gets close to finding his sister, Derrick ends up in the fight of his life.

  Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 3:00pm
  FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
  250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON

  This event has reserved setting. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for Film House members. Visit the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series page at the Performing Arts Centre website to purchase a ticket and for details on all films in the series. Click here to read, download, or share the Press Release for this event.

  Presented by The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.

  Learn more about the films in the series below:

  Read more

  Tags: Events, Films, Lyn Trudeau, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• January 19, 2025 – Screening of “Reel Injun” for the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series

  Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | By cszczepanowski

  

  The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology are proud to announce Dibaajimo / Tells a Story, a new curated film series to coincide with a new Indigenous Film Course (WGST 3P79) taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau. To expand the potential reach and impact of her course, Dr. Trudeau has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s programming team to curate a selection of titles covered in the course.

  Dr. Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. She is cross-appointed with Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology and affiliated with the Social Justice and Equity Program in which her work embodies a decolonial lens. This includes previous work/research with Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools. She feels it is important to honour her cultural background; therefore, embeds Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in her classrooms and research endeavours.

  The first film in the series will be Reel Injun (2009). In this feature-length documentary, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insightful look at the portrayal of North American Indigenous people throughout a century of cinema. Featuring hundreds of clips from old classics as well as recent releases, the film traces the evolution of the “Hollywood Indian.”

  Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 3:00pm
  FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
  250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON

  This event has reserved setting. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for Film House members. Visit the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series page at the Performing Arts Centre website to purchase a ticket and for details on all films in the series. Click here to read, download, or share the Press Release for this event.

  Presented by The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.

  Learn more about the films in the series below:

  Read more

  Tags: Events, Films, Lyn Trudeau, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• 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, Fall 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 two 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.

  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, Social Sciences Day, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• March 20, 2024 – Indigenous De/Criminalization Symposium

  Monday, March 11, 2024 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Join us at the Indigenous De/Criminalization Symposium!

  “The Decolonization Working Group of Brock’s President’s Advisory Committee for Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization (PACHRED) will host a symposium entitled Indigenous De/Criminalization Symposium. We feel it is necessary to address not only how criminalization impacts our communities but also why, when, and the ripple effects (victimization, mis/non/representation). We feel it is also necessary to bring in the richness, strength of spirit, and joy of our nations into the symposium and will weave artists/performers throughout the day.”

  Wednesday, March 20, 2024, from 10:00am to 4:00pm
  Pond Inlet at Brock University

  To see a full schedule of the day’s events and all special guests, speakers, performers, and artists, view or download the Indigenous De/Criminalization Symposium Schedule.

  This is a free event. Please register on EventBrite.

  Sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED), Decolonization Working Group, 2S&LGBTQ Working Group, Employment Equity Working Group, Faculty of Social Sciences, Indigenous Education Department, and Student Justice Centre.

  Tags: Events, Lyn Trudeau, Robyn Bourgeois, Symposiums, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• November 21, 2022 – Combing Out The Snakes: Towards A Communal Healing with Alicia Elliott

  Monday, November 21, 2022 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Combing Out The Snakes: Towards A Communal Healing
  

  Join us for this event as part of 16 Days of Activism on Gender Violence with Alicia Elliott, author of the award-winning novel, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground (2019).

  Introductions will be provided by Robyn Bourgeois, Vice-President of Indigenous Engagement and Associate Professor in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.

  Moderation will be provided by Lyn Trudeau, Lecturer for the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.

  Monday, November 21, 2022, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  Academic South/South Block Room 217 at Brock University

  Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Office of the Vice-President, Indigenous Engagement; Hadiyaˀdagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre; Human Rights and Equity Office; Social Justice Research Institute; and Sexual Violence and Prevention Committee.

  Tags: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Allicia Elliott, Events, Presentations, Robyn Bourgeois, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events

• November 3, 2022 – BIPOC Perspectives: Feminism and Gender Violence

  Thursday, November 03, 2022 | By cszczepanowski

  

  Join us for “BIPOC Perspectives: Feminism and Gender Violence,” a workshop hosted by the Student Justice Centre and facilitated by Women’s and Gender Studies faculty Lyn Trudeau and Margot Francis.

  Feminism and the interconnectedness of gender-based violence are prevalent themes today. In this workshop, we will discuss what feminism is, the different types of feminism, and how gender-based violence plays a role in almost every “feminist topic.”

  Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. Lyn’s research is through a decolonial lens and has included: working alongside Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools.

  Margot Francis‘s teaching interests are in the areas of Indigenous resurgence through artistic and community mobilization; feminist, decolonial and anti-racist activism challenging sexual/racial violence; and queer and intersectional approaches to sexualities.

  Thursday, November 3, 2022, from 3:00pm to 4:00pm
  Academic South/South Block Room 108 at Brock University

  This workshop is open to folks of all identities.
  Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more information and/or accessibility requirements.
  Brock students can receive co-curricular credit in the CWC for attending this workshop.

  Tags: Discussions, Events, Lyn Trudeau, Margot Francis, WGST Faculty, Workshops
  Categories: News and Events

• December 3, 2019 – 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

  Tuesday, December 03, 2019 | By cszczepanowski

  

  All are welcome to this event marking 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence Against Women.

  When is it safe to start writing about sexual violence? Téa Mutonji reflects on writing her novel, Shut Up You’re Pretty (2019).

  How does #MeToo actively engage colonialism? Robyn Bourgeois discusses what it would take to decolonize #MeToo.

  Tuesday, December 3, 2019, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
  Pond Inlet, J-Block Mackenzie Chown Complex at Brock University

  Sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Women’s Campus Safety Grant, and Human Rights and Equity Office.

  Tags: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Events, Presentations, Robyn Bourgeois, WGST Faculty
  Categories: News and Events