Articles tagged with: WGST Faculty

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

    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:

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

    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:

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

    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.

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

    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

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

    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

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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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  • March 20, 2024 – Indigenous De/Criminalization Symposium

    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.

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