IGSF EVENTS

Thursday, October 3rd
12:30pm - Registration and Opening Remarks
1:30pm - Public Talk 'Teen Sexting: The Criminalization of Sexual/ized 'Selfies' by Prof. Lara Karaian, Carleton University
3:00 pm - Workshop Session 'Consent Culture: Mobilizing Youth-led, Sex Positive, Anti-Violence Movements Through an Anti-Oppressive Framework' by Elicia Loiselle and youth facilitators from Project Respect
7:00pm - Panel Discussion:
Sexuality, Anti-Violence Activism and Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities
with Elicia Loiselle from Project Respect; Kira Poirier from Hollaback, Montreal; Jeff Perera from the White Ribbon Campaign; and Steph Guthrie from Women in Toronto Politics
Location: - Bronfman Building, Desautels Faculty of Management, 1001 Sherbrooke Street West, Room151, McGill University, downtown campus, (wheelchair accessible)

Friday, October 4th
9:00am - Registration and Welcoming Remarks
10:00am - Workshop Session 'Blueprints for Change: Engaging Men Online and In Person' by Jeff Perera and Ron Couchman from the White Ribbon Campaign
Lunch provided for registrants
1:00pm - Public Talk 'Defining The Lines between Free Expression, Privacy, Safety and Regulation' by Prof. Shaheen Shariff from McGill University and Define the Line

Registration is required for all parts of the symposium:
514-398-3911 or info [dot] igsf [at] mcgill [dot] ca or www.mcgill.ca/igsf/events/registration

Unless otherwise noted, the events will be held at Thomson House, Ballroom, 3650 McTavish, McGill University, downtown campus

Entrée libre! Bienvenue à tous!
Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013, 12:30 pm
Postcolonial Constitutionalism: Complexities and Contradictions
Vrinda Narain
Assistant Professor
Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law

Tuesday, November 12th, 2013, 12:30 pm
Got gay organs?: analyzing health policies through a Queer bioethics lens
Jason Behrmann
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013, 12:30 pm
Rethinking Sexual Self-Objectification in Contemporary Art
Julie Lavigne
Professor in Department of Sexology, UQAM
IGSF Visiting Professor

Jennifer Guglielmo (Associate Professor of History, Smith College) will discuss her recovery of the histories of activism of working-class Italian immigrant women anarchists in the United States as a window into the world of early twentieth-century transnational feminism. Emerging from a diasporic, multi-ethnic network of labor radicals, the women in this movement did not seek inclusion within the modern nation-state; nor did they rely on established trade unions or cross-class alliances. Instead, they created autonomous spaces for working-class and poor women to articulate their particular struggles and embody l'emancipazione della donna (women's emancipation). Together, they asked a question that formed the heart of their politics: "Why does the pleasure of some have to create misery for many?"

The first international Congress of Black Writers and Artists was held in 1956 at Sorbonne University in Paris, bringing together Black intellectuals representing three different continents to examine, discuss and debate Black culture and identity in all its diversity. The Congress was initiated by Alioune Diop, founder of the the journal and publishing house Présence Africaine. Participants included Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Jean Price- Mars, Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Amadou Hampaté Bâ and George Lamming, Mercer Cook and James Ivy, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant and René Depestre, Cheikh Anta Diop, Abdoulaye Wadé and Josephine Baker.
Following in this tradition and developing out of the intellectual activities of the Caribbean Conference Committee, the 1968 Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, including C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. As had the first Congress, the event took place during a historic moment of transnational social and political change and featured rigorous debates about Black culture, politics and identity.
This fall marks the 45th anniversary of the 1968 Black Writers Congress held at McGill. Community-University Talks (C-Uni-T) and the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) will be marking the occasion by welcoming Black writers and artists to Montreal for the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists of the 21st century from Friday, October 18th- Sunday, October 20th. The theme of the 2013 Congress, “Create Dangerously” is inspired by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Princeton University Press, 2010). Danticat took her title from the last public lecture given by Albert Camus, “Create Dangerously,” in which Camus declared, “For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.”