2014-2015 Speakers' Series

The Department of Women's and Gender Studies has an exciting lineup of speakers for the 2014-15 academic year! Please click on title for a full listing and don't forget to schedule September 16th 3:30-5:00 for our Annual Public Lecture with Professor Lise Gotell, "A Critique of the Critique of Carceral Feminism: Reassessing the Place of Criminalization in the Struggle Against Sexual Violence."

29 August 2014

INTERSECTIONALITIES

Fall 2014

ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE: Lise Gotell (Vice-Dean and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Alberta) will be presenting "A Critique of the Critique of Carceral Feminism: Reassessing the Place of Criminalization in the Struggle Against Sexual Violence,"
on Tuesday, September 16, 3:30-5:00, in CAB 281.
Followed by a reception and the opening of Cindy Baker's Lipstick and Bullets in the Women's and Gender studies Exhibition SPACE in the Assiniboia Hall Women's and Gender Studies Exhibition Space.

Glenda Bonifacio (Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge) will be presenting, "Researching Pinay Lives in the Prairies: Global-Local Intersections," on Thursday, October 2, 3:30-5:00, in CAB 281.

Moyra Lang (MLIS) will be presenting "Library Programs and Information Access for Incarcerated Women: A Canadian Perspective," on Wednesday, October 15, 5:00-6:30, in CAB 373.

Danielle Peers (Trudeau Scholar in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta) will be presenting, "Spectacular Tolerance: Dis/ability, Feminism, and Nation-Making in Canada," on Thursday, November 6, 3:30-5:00, in CAB 281.

Rita Kaur Dhamoon (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria) will be presenting, "Radical Relationality: Unsettling Racisms and Settler Colonialism," on Wednesday, November 12, 3:00-4:30, in CAB 281. Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science.

Heather K. Love (R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania) will be presenting, "Queer Method," on Friday, November 21, 3:00-4:30, in CAB 281.

Onookome Okome (Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta) will be presenting, "Same-Sex Wahala: Notes from Onitsha Market Pamphlets," on Thursday, November 27, 3:30-5:00, in CAB 281.


INTERSECTIONALITIES

Winter 2015

Nathalie Kermoal (Associate Professor of Native Studies and Campus St. Jean), will be presenting, "Fighting the Gender Eclipse: Métis women's knowledge and their connection to the land," on Friday, January 16, 3:00-4:30, in CAB 373.

Distinguished Visitor Robyn Wiegman (Professor of Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, Duke University), will be presenting a series of three lectures titled "Sex, Love, and Theory":

1) Monday, January 26, 3:30-5:00: "Queer Theory's Queer Sex," in Humanities L-3.

2) Tuesday, January 27, 3:30-5:00: "Eve's Affects," in Humanties L-3.

3) Thursday, January 29, 3:30-5:00: Racial Sensations," in Humanities L-3.

Co-sponsored by the department of English and Film Studies.


On Friday, February 13, 2015, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies will have its Second Annual "VALENTINE'S DAY WITH FEMINISM" Lecture:

Suzanne Lenon (Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge), will be presenting, "Homonationalism and the Biopolitics of Polygamy," from 3:00-4:30, in CAB 373.

Siobhan Byrne (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta), will be presenting a paper (title tba) on Friday March 13, 3:00-4:30, in CAB 373.

Sarah Carter (Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor of History and Classics and Native Studies, University of Alberta) will be presenting a paper (title tba) on Friday, March 20, 3:00-4:30, in CAB 373.

Heike Schotten (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston), will be presenting a paper (title tba) on Thursday, April 2, 3:30-5:00, in Tory 10-4. Co-Sponsored by the Department of Political Science.