Cultural Studies Colloquium

Cultural Studies Colloquium is a speaker series open to all members of Queen’s and Kingston communities. It is a subset of the events of CUST 802/902 (which also includes workshops offered only to students); Colloquium runs on selected Wednesdays 2:30-5:00pm. Students enrolled in 802/902 should go to OnQ for full and current information. 

 

Date 

Event Title

Jan 10

Meet Cultural Studies Faculty

Jan 17

After School: Imagining Options with Miguel Hahn (Career Services)

Jan 24

Campus Hotspots: Laura Miller at Miller Geology Museum

Jan 31

Talking it Out II: Critical Perspectives on Work and Status

Feb 7

Putting Yourself Out There: Conferences, Publishing, Publicity

Feb 14

Meet Cultural Studies Students

Feb 28

Artificial Intelligence, Equity, and Pedagogy: Workshop and Discussion

Mar 6

Dr. Shoshana Pollack, Director of Walls to Bridges Canada, on pedagogy in prisons

Mar 13

Dr. Laura Murray and Dave Mowat (former chief, Alderville First Nation) on Michi Saagig Treaties Then and Now

Mar 20

Ted Chiang, Science Fiction writer, on Artificial Intelligence

Mar 27

Next Steps for the PhD and MA

Apr 3

Dr. Natalie Loveless, University of Alberta, Dunning Trust Lecture

 

Past Colloquium Series

Date & Time Event Title

Jan 11

2:30-4pm

Meet CUST Faculty with Shobhana Xavier, Kelsey Jacobson, Caroline-Isabelle Caron, and Elliot Chapple

Jan 18

2:30-4pm

Professor Scott Berthelette: Metissage, Cultural Hybridity, and Religious Syncretism: The Prehistory of the Metis Nation

Feb 1

2:30-4pm

Student panel on organizational experiences and community building

Feb 15

2:30-4pm

A session with Ozlem Atar

March 8

2:30-4pm

CUST student session

March 22

2:30-4pm

Meet Cultural Studies students

March 29

2:30-5:30pm

Rethinking Dispossession in the Context of Extractivism by Dineo Skosana, visiting scholar from University of Witwatersrand

 

Date & Time Event Title

Sept 7

2:30-5:30pm

Meet Cultural Studies & Reception

Sept 14

2:30-5:30pm

Library Orientation

Sept 21

2:30-5:30pm

Tricks of the Trade from Those Who Know

Sept 28

2:30-5:30pm

SSHRC Workshop

Oct 4

2:30-5:30pm

Pearle Habour

Oct 5

2:30-5:30pm

Meeting Justin Miller

Oct 19

2:30-5:30pm

Culture on Campus: At the Union Gallery

Oct 26

2:30-4:00pm

Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan: Taiwan: Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions

Nov 2

2:30-5:30pm

El Jones - Book Launch

Nov 9

2:30-5:30pm

Queering Public Policy: Canada's First Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan by Ben Schnitzer

Nov 16

2:30-5:30pm

Creative Connections

Nov 30

2:30-5:30pm

OGS Workshop & End of Term Party

Time Event Title and Zoom Information

Apr 20

​1-2:30pm 

PhD Thesis Proposal Workshop

Apr 29

​​10-11am

CUST Cafe

May 4

​11:30am-1pm

GREB Workshop

May 10

​​1-2:30pm

MA Thesis Proposal Workshop

June 1

​2:15-3:15pm

CUST Community Check-Ins

June 8

11:30-1pm

Qualifying Exam Workshop Part 1

June 15

​11:30-1pm

Thinking Post-Doc with Julien Lefort-Favreau

June 24

10-11:30am

CUST Cafe

July 13

​1-2:30pm

Teaching Fellow Orientation

Aug 10

​​1-2:30pm

Qualifying Exam Workshop Part 2

Aug 12

​10-11:30am

CUST Cafe

Aug 24

​​​1-2:30pm

SSRHC Student Panel – Tips and Tricks from Those Who Know

Date & Time Event Title and Zoom Information

Jan 12

11:30-1pm

Meet Cultural Studies Faculty featuring Laila Haidarali, Asha Varadharajan, and Sarah Waisvisz

Jan 19

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Jan 26

11:30-1pm

A Conversation with Jeff Thomas

Feb 2

11:30-1pm

Student conversation

Feb 9

11:30-1pm

A Conversation with El Jones

Feb 16

11:30-1pm

A Conversation with Natasha Stirrett

Feb 23

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Mar 2

11:30-1pm

Meet Cultural Studies Students: Tianna Edwards, Melanie Proulx and Tanya Lukin Linklater

Mar 9

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Mar 16

11:30-1pm

A Conversation with Elliot Chapelle

Mar 23

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Mar 30

11:30-1pm

Unit Ethics Workshop

Apr 6

11:30-1pm

Student Session: Next Steps for Cultural Studies MA and PhD students

Date & Time Event Title and Zoom Information

Sept 8

11:30-1pm

Meet Cultural Studies Faculty: Jennifer Kennedy, Dolleen Manning, burcu baba and Matt Rogalsky

Sept 15

11:30-1pm

Library Orientation with Hannah Tanna

Sept 22

11:30-1:30pm

Games, Identity and Politics

PSAC Orientation

Sept 29

11:30-1pm

SSHRC Workshop II

Oct 6

11:30-2pm

Bell Park Project: A field Trip from Kingston’s Inner Harbour to Belle Park
Oct 13 Fall term break

Oct 20

11:30-1pm

1-2:30pm

Art, Culture and the Institution

MA student Profession Development Session 1

Oct 27

11:30-1pm

Ethics of documentary film making

Nov 3

11:30-1pm

1-2:30pm

Mid-semester catch up and check in

CGS-M workshop for MA students

Nov 10

11:30-1pm

1-2:30pm

A Conservation with Juliane Otok Bitek

MA student Professional Development Session 2

Nov 17

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Nov 24

11:30-1pm

1-2:30pm

Daniel McNeil, Professor and Queen’s National Scholar Chair in Black Studies

Finding a Supervisor and applying to the 2-year MA

Dec 1

11:30-1pm

Student discussion

Date & Time Event Title and Zoom Information

May 5

11:30-1pm

GREB Workshop

May 14

10-11:30am

CUST Café

May 19

8pm

CUST Movie Night

Information to sign into the Plex.tv watch party TBD!

May 28

7pm

Song Circle

June 9

11:30-1pm

Postdoc Prep Session with Julien Lefort-Favreau

June 16

6pm

An Hour of UN/Making with Jill Price

June 23

CUST Community Check-in meetings

MA students, all years - 10-11 am
PhD students, working towards QE & Proposal - 11:15-12:15 pm
PhD students, ABD - 2:15-3:15 pm

 

The Great Cultural Studies Bake Off - 6pm, recipe

July 14

Qualifying Exam Workshop Part 1 - 11:30-1pm

July 21

11:30-1pm

MA Proposal Workshop

July 23

10-11:30am

CUST Café

July 28

11:30-1pm

Teaching Fellow Orientation
Aug 11

CUST Movie Night - 8pm

Aug 18

SSHRC & Vanier Workshop - 11:30-1pm

 

Qualifying Exam Workshop Part 2 - 1:30-2:30pm

Date & Time Event Title and Zoom Information

Sept 9

​11:30am-2:30pm 

Postponed to observe Scholar Strike Canada

Sept 16

​​11:30am-1pm

1pm-2pm

Meet Cultural Studies: Amarnath Amarasingam, Karen Lawford, Emily Pelstring, Jenn Stephenson

SSHRC Workshop

Sept 23

​11:30am-2:30pm

Course Introduction

Sept 30

​11:30am-2:30pm 

Library Orientation with Cultural Studies Librarian Sylvia Andrychuk

Oct 7

​11:30am-2:30pm

Meet Cultural Studies, Student Edition: Gracelynn Lau, Camille Georgeson-Usher, and Christina Fabiani

Oct 14

​11:30am-2:30pm

The Truth about Stories: Talking about Inconvenient Indian: Jesse Wente and Stuart Henderson

Oct 21

​11:30am-2:30pm

Mid-semester catch up and check in

Oct 28

Fall Term break (classes will not be held)

Nov 4

​11:30am-2:30pm

Arts, Culture & the Institution: Jan Allen, Nicole Daniels and Heather Parker

Nov 11

​11:30am-2:30pm

Here, There, and Elsewhere: A Conversation with Tahseen Shams

Nov 18

​11:30am-2:30pm

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory with Brittany Luby and Chief Lorraine Cobiness

Nov 25

​11:30am-2:30pm

End of term check in and discussion

Dec 2

11:30am-2:30pm

Cultural Studies Alumnae Lecture: "Indigenous Curatorial Methodologies in Practice" with Erin Sutherland

Cultural Studies Virtual Bingo & Bevvies

Jan 13

11:30am-2:30pm

Meet Cultural Studies: Ali Na, Awet Weldemichael, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Heather Castleden

Jan 20

11:30am-2:30pm

Performance Beyond the Fourth Wall: Erin Ball, Tricia Knowles, Adrienne Wong

Jan 27

11:30-2:30pm

Funny Boy, the film: A panel discussion

Register for discussion

Feb 3

11:30-2:30pm

Reflections on the Year of (Racial) Reckoning in the University: Dr. Barrington Walker 

Feb 10

1-2:30pm

(note different time)

The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation: Dr. D. Nandi Odhiambo  

Feb 17 Reading Week (classes will not be held)

Feb 24

11:30-1pm

Fabulatory Function of the Curatorial” with Emelie Chhangur, Director and Curator, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

March 3

11:30-1pm

Cultural Studies Alumni Panel + Trivia with Taylor Lynch, Josh Hawley, Carina Magazzeni

March 10

6:30pm

(note different time)

Extended Technique with Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp

Held in conjunction with Dr. Matt Rogalsky's class MUSC255: Introduction to Electroacoustic Composition

March 17

11:30-1pm

Collaboration and Solidarity: Writing about Aukaat/Social Boundaries, with Brindaalakshmi K., Alithea Mounika, Nayeem Rather & Prerna Subramanian

March 24

Colloquium cancelled

March 31

11:30-1:30pm

(note different time)

Understanding the World through Aesthetics.

This panel conversation features Elvira Hufschmid (Doctoral Research Fellow at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre), Sunny Kerr (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre), and Dr. Erica Caden (Research Scientist at SNOLAB).  

April 7

11:30-1pm

End of year celebration 

April 14

11:30-1pm

What's Next session for PhD students

Internal CUST802/902 session