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Events are typically free and open to the public, but seating may be limited.
For most events we ask that you please register.
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FALL/WINTER 2012-2013


IGSF Welcome Reception

Wednesday, September 19th, 4-6pm, at IGSF, 3487 Peel Street, second floor

TALKS & SEMINARS

GIRLHOOD STUDIES AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE: NEW PARADIGMS OF RESEARCH 
Wednesday, October 10 - Friday, October 12, 2012

Symposium and public lecture by the celebrated Prof. Catherine Driscoll from the University of Sydney (Australia) and one of the founders of the international field of Girlhood Studies.

Girlhood Studies conference schedule: click here.

Organized by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University, in collaboration with Girls Action Foundation and Justice for Girls. Funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant and with the generous support of the Dean of Arts Development Fund, the Mini Beatty Memorial Fund, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), Media@McGill, the Department of Art History and Communication Studies,  and the Department of English.

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Is Feminism Dead in a Democratic Latin America?
Jane S. Jaquette,
Emeritus Professor of Politics and of Diplomacy and World Affairs, at Occidental College
Monday, October 15th, 10:30am, Omni Mont-Royal Hotel, Salle Pierre-de Coubertin, 1050 Sherbrooke Street West

Organized by the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), with co-sponsorship from IGSF.
(Registration Not Required)

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Reception with Raewyn Connell, sociologist and University Chair at the University of Sydney, and renowned scholar of gender, masculinity, sexuality and class.
Wednesday, October 31st, 4:00-6:00pm, at IGSF

Please join IGSF and Prof. Peta Tancred in welcoming the celebrated Raewyn Connell for an afternoon reception.

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She Had a Laugh Like a Beefsteak
Susan Stilton, Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist
Tuesday, November 6th, 5:30pm, Arts Building, W-215

Organized by the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, with co-sponsorship from IGSF, Media@McGill and the Department of English.
(Registration Not Required)

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WHOSE BUSINESS IS RISK?

A day-long graduate and post-graduate conference organized with The HTMlles 10
and associated with the Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture "RISKY BUSINESS"
Friday, 16 November, 2012
9am - 5pm At Thomson House, 3650 McTavish (Ballroom)
Lunch provided
Registration required:
register at IGSF events; or call: 514-398-3911; or email: info [dot] igsf [at] mcgill [dot] ca

For more information on the WHOSE BUSINESS IS RISK? conference click here:

Program of "Whose Business Is Risk?"

The conference “Whose Business is Risk?” seeks to critically respond to current deployments of risk, the notion of risk society, and the conceptualization of “at risk” populations.
Jointly organized by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University, Media@McGill, The HTMlles 10, and Studio XX, this day-long graduate and post-graduate interdisciplinary conference will explore the themes of the RISKY BUSINESS festival through panel presentations: Risking the Queer Body; Landscapes of Boom and Doom; Axes of Risk--Finance Capital, Waste, and the Gendering of Crisis; and The Carceral State and the Politics of Rebellion.

For information on the Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture
November 10 - 18, 2012, including other IGSF supported events:

Program of "Risky Business"
Pedestrian web map from Roddick Gates, McGill to Studio XX, 4001 Berri, suite 201

Highlighting IGSF special event:

Talk and tour by Zach Blas
Monday, 12 November, 2012
2pm - 4pm
Studio XX, suite 201, 4001 rue Berri, Montreal.

Visiting artist Zach Blas, who is an IGSF featured participant in the Risky Business festival, offers his installation work: The Facial Weaponization Suite. The Facial Weaponization Suite is a response to studies that link determining sexual orientation through facial recognition and a growing culture of technologically-driven identification calculation. The suite provides sets of masks for public intervention. One mask, the Fag Face Mask, is generated from the biometric facial data of many gay men's faces, attempting to evade detection by mechanisms of capture and recognition-control.

Zach Blas also leads a talk and tour of the 4001 Berri installations. Co-hosted by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Media@Mcgill, the Encounter is intended to create a contemplative space for personal reflection and facilitated discussion on the themes presented in the artworks.
Free admission/ registration required; readings may be assigned.

Take a risk--join us!

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IGSF and the international, interdisciplinary journal Feminist Theory present:
The Future of Feminist Theory
A symposium on current issues and trends within Women’s Studies and Feminist Theory, with a focus on publishing, networking and conferences.
Starting at 1pm the afternoon of Wednesday, November 28th
at the Faculty Club Ballroom, 3450 McTavish
details and schedule:

Featuring:
A public talk entitled “Feminist Theory and the Non-Human”
By Myra Hird, Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University
North American Editor, Feminist Theory
and
A Panel Discussion: “The Future of Feminist Theory: Publishing, Networks, and Conferences”
With Professors Ann Braithwaite, Anna Feigenbaum and Stacy Gillis

Schedule:
Panel Presentations and Q&A ................................................................. 1:00-2:30pm
Break for Refreshments ............................................................................ 2:30-3:00pm
Public Talk ................................................................................................ 3:00-4:15pm
IGSF Social Hour (At IGSF, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor, seminar room) ........ 4:30-5:30pm

Speakers and Panel Participants include:
Ann Braithwaite, Women’s Studies (University of Prince Edward Island)
Anna Feigenbaum, The Media School (Bournemouth University, UK)
Stacy Gillis, English Literature (Newcastle University, UK); IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar (McGill University); Editior, Feminist Theory

Panelists will discuss new developments in Women’s and Gender Studies and current trajectories for publishing and career development with an eye toward both established and alternative publishing venues. The Q&A period will provide a significant opportunity for emerging scholars to pose questions directly to the panelists, based on their experience in feminist research and the publishing process.

Free and open to all, but geared towards graduate and post-graduate scholars and faculty.
Registration is required:
www.mcgill.ca/igsf/events/registration, (514) 398-3911, info [dot] igsf [at] mcgill [dot] ca

For more information:
Feminist Theory: http://www.feminist-theory-journal.com/
Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF): http://www.mcgill.ca/igsf

Please join us for the discussion! Followed by an IGSF Social Hour (at IGSF, refreshments will be served).

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"Tongues Untied" film screening
Thursday, February 7th, 6pm
(African) American documentary by Marlon Riggs, followed by a Q&A period.
Location: 3475 Peel Street, Room 101.
In collaboration with: Arc en Ciel d'Afrique which presents MASSIMADI:
5th Afro-Carribean LGBT international film festival

 

 

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A Conversation With Natalie Zemon Davis
Thursday, February 14th, 4-6pm
Panel discussion with Natalie Zemon Davis, Annmarie Adams, and Elizabeth Elbourne. Moderated by Brian Lewis
Location: Leacock Room 232, reception to follow
Organized by the Department of History and Classical Studies, in collaboration with IGSF, with support from the Mini Beatty Memorial Fund
Click for online registration

 

 

 

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Edgy Colloquium:
Off-Side: The Edgy Women Colloquium/Hors de Jeu: Colloque Edgy

For the first time, Edgy Women invites academics, artists and other free-thinkers to participate in an afternoon of exchange in an unconventional setting. The Edgy Colloque invites featured guests into the ring of the Chat Bleu Boxing Club to lead a series of conversational, performative lectures about sport, art and gender politics. Among other presentations, competitive boxer, anti-oppression champion and genderqueer activist Janaya Khan will be discussing boxing and gendered expectations of competition. Kristin Grey/Justin Credible, a genderqueer artist and storyteller will deliver Out of Bounds, a performative lecture about sporting bodies in the media and public eye. Boxer and “theatre chick” Savoy Howe will combine her two vocational loves by performing The Flower Garden, a 10 minute performance piece about planting the seeds of female aggression. She is the head coach and owner of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada’s only all-female and trans-positive boxing association. The Colloquium is part of the week-long Edgy Women Festival (March 1-10). This year’s theme is Art/Gender/Sports: We live in a world that promotes a rhetorical opposition between art (sensitivity/subculture/femininity) and sports (strength/mainstream/masculinity). Let's see what happens when we mix it up! For details about the colloquium and more information about the festival, check out http://www.edgywomen.ca .

Thursday, March 7th, 10:30am - 3:30pm
Location: In the ring at the Blue Cat Boxing Club, 435 Beaubien West, 4th floor
free and open to public
Part of the Edgy Women Festival, March 1-10th

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WMST 495/602 Colloquium
RE: Framing Feminism
An Emerging Scholars Colloquium

Panels:

• 1pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 1:15-2:05pm Engaging Citizens: Policies of Ethics and Empowerment
• 2:05-2:15pm Break
• 2:15-3:35pm Sex, Love, and Philosophers
• 3:35-3:45pm Break
• 3:45-4:40pm Fighters and Feminist: Exploring Representations in Media
• 4:40-5pm Closing Remarks

click for detailed schedule of RE: Framing Feminism

Tuesday, March 26th, 1-5 pm
reception at IGSF to follow
Location: Education bldg, Rm 613, 3700 McTavish St.

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Julia Serano

WHIPPING GIRL

Thursday, March 28th, 7pm
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., 7th floor - CSU lounge, Room H-767
FREE
WSSA (Women's Studies Students Association) in conjunction with the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL), Queer Concordia, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and McGill's Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) is proud to announce that Julia Serano will be appearing at Concordia University.

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, trans activist, and biologist. She is the author of "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women. Her other writings have appeared in various magazines, websites, anthologies, and academic journals, and have been used as teaching materials in gender studies, queer studies, social studies, human sexuality and psychology courses across North America.

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You’re Hired?:
Understanding New Forms of Discrimination and Gaps in the Labor Market

This workshop will help to sift through some of the new problems that members of diverse minorities experience in the workplace. More specifically, it tackles the myth that "the glass ceilings" have been destroyed in organizations and that jobs are available to anyone who wants them. The event combines speakers on the topics of job segregation and office-place discrimination, followed by workshops on job interviewing and discrimination "spotting." Complementary snacks served afterwards. 


Wednesday, April 3rd, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Bronfman, Room 423. 

Speakers Include:
Carrie Rentschler,
Director, IGSF; Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies, Communication Studies
Ruthanne Huising,
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Matt Chisling,
BCom '13 Marketing and Communications, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Peg Brunelle,
BA, BCom Career Advisor, Marketing and International Management, Soutar Career Centre, McGill University

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Radical Formations: Sex, Race, Trans

How do social movements resist and react to new measures for legal equality? This interdisciplinary panel tackles this question via resistance to intersectional state violence, transgender people's legal consciousness, and race-based critiques of rights.
Organized by Robert Leckey, William Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, in collaboration with IGSF, funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant.

PLEASE NOTE:
To accommodate the large number of registrations we have received for 'RADICAL FORMATIONS: SEX, RACE, TRANS' we have moved the event to a NEW LOCATION: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building (3655 promenade Sir William Osler), Room 522 (R. Howard Palmer Amphitheatre). Please enter the building from Pine Avenue; Room 522 will be to your left on the ground floor.
You are encouraged to arrive early for optimal seating.


Friday, April 12th, 4 - 5:30pm
Location: McIntyre Medical Building, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Room 522, R. Howard Palmer Amphitheatre
(enter via Pine Avenue)

Panelists:
Sharon Cowan
, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Roderick Ferguson, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota
Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
Panel discussion followed by a reception sponsored by IGSF
Organized by Robert Leckey, Faculty of Law, in collaboration with IGSF, funded by a SSHRC Grant.
Click for online registration

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An Evening with Alison Bechdel
Friday, 12th April, 2013
Ukrainian Federation, 5213 Hutchison St., Montreal, Quebec
Doors: 6pm Event: 7pm
Tickets $10
available at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest, Montreal, Quebec
or online at: Bechdel at the Drawn & Quarterly

Facebook event page: an evening with Alison Bechdel
Event listing: an evening with Alison Bechdel

Join us at the Ukrainian Federation as Alison Bechdel discusses her creative process and her latest graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?, in a visual presentation. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Presented by Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, in association with the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University.


SOCIAL HOUR

*NEW THIS YEAR*
Are you a graduate student, post-graduate, or a faculty member whose research engages with issues of gender &/ sexuality &/ feminist studies?
Join us for this *new* monthly social event. Meet other academics with similar research interests over refreshments!

Hosted at IGSF,

Wednesday, October 24th, 4:00-6:00pm, at IGSF
Wednesday, November 28th, 4:30-5:30pm, at IGSF (following "The Future of Feminist Theory")
Wednesday, December 12th, 4:00-6:00pm, at IGSF
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013, 5@7 at IGSF
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013, 5@7 at IGSF
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013, 5@7 at IGSF
(Registration Not Required)


ESQUISSES

A lunch-time series of works-in-progress by McGill faculty

Lunch provided, but seating is limited - We ask that you register.
PLACE: IGSF Seminar Room, 3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor
Click for online registration

Fall 2012 semester:

Dangerous Geographies:  The Social Abandonment of Racialized Women and Containment Zones in Los Angeles and Vancouver
Jenny Burman
Associate Professor
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
DATE: Tuesday, October 30th 2012, 12:30pm

Performing the Lost Generation: The Malleable Addict in China
Sandra Hyde
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
DATE: Tuesday, November 20th 2012, 12:30pm

Policing Boundaries: Gender and Genre in Early British Detective Fiction
Stacy Gillis
Professor
Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University, UK
IGSF Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar
DATE: Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 12:30

Winter 2013 semester:

The Family Romance of the South African Revolution
Jon Soske
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Classical Studies
DATE: Wednesday, January 30th 2013, 12:30

Laura Secord and the Body of Evidence
Elsbeth Heaman
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Classical Studies
DATE: Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 12:30

Excessive Presences? Class, Gender, Sexuality and the 'Fit' to Place
Yvette Taylor
Professor
Social and Policy Studies, London South Bank University, UK
IGSF Visiting Scholar
DATE: Wednesday, March 20th 2013, 12:30

 

 

 


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