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Announcements and Events

Gender Studies Colloquium a great success.

April 27th, 2012 at the Donald Gordon Centre

Rinaldo Walcott, Terrie Easter Sheen and Abdi Osman

News release of the event Colloquium Poster

Beckham Ronaghan wins Positive Space Award!

Gender Studies congratulates Beckham Ronaghan, a fourth year Gender Studies Major in the SXGD Certificate Program, who is the winner of the 2012 Positive Space Award. Queen's News Centre article.

SXGD Invited Speaker Viviane K Namaste

Wednesday March 14, 2012 2pm

Robert Sutherland Hall (formerly SPS) Room 202

Keeping it Real: Critical Social Science Research on Trans' Peoples' Everyday Lives

Gender Studies Brown Bag Series 2011-12

Thursdays 12-1pm in a NEW room Mackintosh-Corry Hall D326

Winter Series
January 12	From Compassion to Social Justice? Elaine Power
February 2	"Out on the Streets They Call it Murder": Gendered Citizenship and the Right to the City in Jamaica's Garrison Communities Beverley Mullings
March 8	Talking the Unspeakable: The Gender-Race Conversation Audrey Kobayashi

Fall Series
October 4	Deterritorialised Intimacies: Gender , Citizenship and Cinema Maria Caridad Cumana and Susan Lord
November 8	How Babies Rule the World: The Global Iconography of the Poster Child Karen Dubinsky
November 29	"From 'why?' to 'why not?'": re-interpreting the reasons why women read self-help books Patricia Neville, Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies

Recent Events

2010-2011 Events

Best Before Date - Struggles with Childlessness & Infertility

A film by Reena Kukreja

Public Screening Wed 15 June @ 7 pm Dunning Hall, Rm 14

Gender Studies Brown Bag Series 2010-11 12-1pm in Mackintosh-Corry Hall B204

September 24	"Feminist Solidarity and the Question of Palestine" Dr. Dana Olwan

October 29	"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick avec Winnicott's Squiggle: Toward a New Queer Ethics of Psychoanalysis" Dr. Michael Snediker

November 26	"The White Trashing of Britney Spears" Dr. Jennifer Musial.

February 18	"Waltz with Bashir: New Masculinity in Israeli Cinema" Dr. Dorit Naaman

March 25	"Mourning Gender, Troubling Identification, Responding to Judith Butler" Dr. Eleanor MacDonald

Winter Term Events in the Department of Gender Studies:

Anne Kustritz - showing her film of fanvids, an aspect of remix culture, which deals with questions of queerness, gender, sexuality and embodiment

Public Lecture and FanVid Show Tuesday Feb 8th, 6:30-8:30pm Mac-Corry E230 Fandom, Fanvidding: Consumer Participation in Popular Culture

Theresie Tungilik - an Inuit art historian and artist who is a Visiting Scholar co-sponsored by the Departments of Art and Gender Studies

Lecture and Reception Thursday February 10th, 5:30pm Agnes Etherington Art Centre

History of Inuit Art: A Personal Reflection

Daniel Heath Justice -a scholar in the field of Indigenous Studies and a creative writer will present a public lecture and guest lectures on the topics of gender and sexual diversity, focused on perspectives drawn from Indigenous cultures and politics.

Public Lecture Tuesday February 15th, 6pm Chernoff Hall Room 117

From Climate Change to Climate Justice: Social Movements & Climate Change October 19, 2010

co-sponsored by Gender Studies

photo of Sarah Stanley

October 4-6, 2010 Visiting Artist Sarah Stanley: Lecture "Picking Your Nose in Public: Asking Difficult Questions in Theatre"

2009-10 Events

"Biotechnology at the Border: DNA, Democratic Surveillance and the Case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud"

Dr. Simone Browne, Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, February 4, 2010

12:30-1:30

Ellis Hall room 224

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Sunday, December 6, 2009

20th Anniversary the murders of 14 women at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal

6:00pm Memorial Service – Wallace Hall JDUC 2nd Floor, 87 Union Street

6:30pm Candlelight Vigil – Wallace Hall to Macdonald Hall

7:00pm Film “Polytechnique” followed by panel discussion.

Organized by WISE, Queen’s Women Centre, Kingston Interval House, Sexual Assault Centre Kingston, SGPS

2009 Robert Sutherland Visitor: Dr. Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia

SNID Roundtable on Racism: Sunera Thobani, Arig Girgrah, Usman Mushtaq, Dana Olwan, Stephanie Simpson, Lara Szabo Greisman

Monday, November 9, 7-9pm, Robert Sutherland Hall rm. 202 ALL WELCOME!

Public Lecture: Sunera Thobani "Slumdogs and Superstars: Negotiating the 'Culture of Terror'"

Wednesday, November 11, 7-9pm, Robert Sutherland Hall rm. 202 ALL WELCOME!

The War on Terror has involved a transformation of the cultural sphere as the U.S. led-coalition propagated Islamophobic narratives, identifying Muslims as a threat to the security of nations. This lecture examines the blockbuster film Slumdog Millionaire as an instance in this War revealing its cultural politics. Beginning with an exploration of the key trans/national issues raised by the film, Dr. Thobani will analyze Slumdog’s representation of its two Muslim protagonists. This will lead into a discussion of how two Bollywood superstars, A.R. Rahman and Shah Rukh Khan, have publicly
negotiated their Indian/Muslim identities in relation to the film. The lecture aims to draw attention to the centrality of the ‘national’ in constructions of the ‘global’ in the culture of Terror.

2009 Dunning Trust Lecture: “Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism”

David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

Friday, October 30th 6pm

Agnes Etherington Atrium

david theo goldberg poster

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute in Irvine. He is arguably the pre-eminent scholar in North America on race. His lecture will address the conditions of precariousness and disposability brought about by the spatial arrangements of economic neoliberalism and trace the consistencies between the effects of racial neoliberalism in Europe, Latin America, Palestine, South Africa, and the United States.

Moving "Beyond Multiculturalism" with Visiting Scholar Dr. Rita Dhamoon

The Department of Political Studies, in concert with Gender Studies and with the support of the Principal’s Development Fund (Visiting Scholar Program), will welcome to Queen’s Dr. Rita Dhamoon (Department of Philosophy & Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley). Dhamoon, who works in the area of contemporary political theory with a focus on critical social and political thought, will deliver a public lecture, present in an inter-departmental (Political Studies, Gender Studies) colloquium, and conduct an academic workshop. The theme of the visit is “Beyond Multiculturalism.”

Colloquium, October 21st: Mapping & Mainstreaming Intersectionality

1 - 2:30 pm, Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Rm. D207

Lecture, October 22nd: Security Alert: Multiculturalism Warning!

5:30 - 7pm, Kingston Hall, Rm. 201

Workshop, October 23rd: Intersecting Privileges in the Academy and Beyond

1:30 - 3:30 pm, Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Rm. B313

Reena Kukreja, Department of Film and Media Studies, Queen's University
Delhi Bound for Work - Screening and Q&A with the Film Director

Wednesday, October 21, 7-9pm, Chernoff, Room 117

If you are interested in purchasing this film, please contact Reena Kukreja.

Delhi Bound for Work

An intimate look at the lives of rural women migrating to work as live-in domestic workers in urban centres of India. The documentary delves into the complex nature of their migration, exploitation by recruitment agencies and employers and treatment by their families and communities. Describing the circumstances of their working and personal lives, the women share their anxieties and hope for a better life.

An invaluable tool for advocacy groups working on the issue of domestic workers, gender rights, migration and trafficking.

Hindi / Kharia / Oriya / English (with subtitles)

India / Canada production

Run time: 58 mins

3rd Annual Powwow "Honouring our Women"

Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Queen's University

September 26, 2009

Agnes Benedickson Field