Announcement and Upcoming Events
Gender Studies Display Case Mackintosh-Corry
The next time you are in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, please take a moment to stroll past the large display case opposite the cafeteria, on the student street outside F200 Student Services. You'll notice a display promoting the Department of Gender Studies. Feel free to pick up a Gender Studies postcard to hand out to anyone interested in Gender Studies at Queen's.
Dan Vena, Gender Studies MA student, wins 2013 Positive Space Award
Terrie Easter Sheen and Dan Vena at the Positive Space ceremony
The Positive Space Award is presented to a full-time undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated leadership in the Queen’s and/or Kingston community in promoting the recognition and celebration of sexual and gender diversity. For those of you who know Dan, he meets this criterion (and more) and is so deserving of this special recognition!!!!
Congratulations Dan! You make us proud! Article about Dan on the Queen's New Centre
Fall 2012 Newsletter - link here
Brown Bag Speakers Series
The annual Gender Studies Brown Bag Speakers Series will meet monthly in 2012-13, on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00, in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D326.Our fall term events are described below.
Winter Series
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
"Theorizing OxyContin: Women, Painkillers and the Racial State". Dr. Sammi King, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. The subject of an intense public panic in Ontario since 2009, the prescription painkiller OxyContin provides a rich site through which to explore connections between pharmaceutical consumption, economic marginalization, state regulationm, and gendered and racial embodiment. Rejecting widely held notions of OxyContin as either panacea or plague, this research is guided by the notion that the reality of painkilling and drug use lies in the cultural contexts that give meaning to the transmutations and pluralities of these practices.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Note Room Change to Jeffery 126
"Music and the 'Feminized' Peacekeeper at the Canadian War Museum". Dr. Kip Pegley,Associate Professor, School of Music, Cross-appointed to Gender Studies, Researcher, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research. All museums are designed to shape public opinion and the Canadian War Museum's programme is no exception. Here, music is carefully implemented in seven sites that move chronologically through the exhibits. Kip Pegley explores how sound contributes to a compelling and particular narrative of Canadian history, designed to persuade visitors that we are singular, benevolent, and critically needed on the international scene, thus justifying the government's decisions to send its military into dangerous conflict zones.
Fall Series
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
“Economy and Survival of the Hidjra Community”. Dr. Sylvat Aziz, Associate Professor, BFA Program, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. Dr. Aziz’ research draws upon Islamic material culture and the visual intersections of art and science.This presentation will address the social, religious and political status of the urban hidjra population in Pakistan.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
“Slavery and Its Afterlife: The Case of Trayvon Martin”. Dr. Barrington Walker, Associate Professor, History, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. His most recent publication is a collection of essays titled, The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press).Influenced by the ideas of Saidiya Hartman and David Austin, this paper examines the Trayvon Martin shooting as a case study of issues of race, gender, and the rule of law in early twentieth century North America. The paper will take up Trayvon’s story in the context of slavery’s long afterlife and the many ways in which the history of slavery shapes the present by challenging abstract notions of formal legal equality and framing and delimiting the life chances of the descendants of the enslaved.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
“Women, Law, and Equality in the 21st Century”. Dr. Kathleen Lahey, Professor of Law, cross-appointed Gender Studies. This talk outlines the history of women’s efforts to eliminate sex discrimination in Canada and elsewhere and identifies the greatest challenges for today. It also discusses potential strategies.
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 |
| November 29 |
"From 'why?' to 'why not?'": re-interpreting the reasons why women read self-help books Patricia Neville, Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies |
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