Events

Book Launch: Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness

Book Launch: Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness

28/03/2025    
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the WGSI for the launch of Jordache Ellapen’s book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness Friday, March 28, 2025 [...]
Queer & Trans Poetics: 9th Annual Queer Directions Symposium

Queer & Trans Poetics: 9th Annual Queer Directions Symposium

07/03/2025    
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Queer Directions is an annual symposium at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies addressing ideas and pressing issues in queer, trans, and sexuality studies, [...]
Black Boundlessness: Aesthetics, Performance and Ethics Under Duress

Black Boundlessness: Aesthetics, Performance and Ethics Under Duress

27/02/2025    
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
This talk presents an overview of my forthcoming book entitled Black Boundlessness: Aesthetics, Performance and Ethics Under Duress which theorizes that Black life is simultaneously [...]
Sex Salon - Sex, Sin, and Cinema: Obscenity Law and Moral Regulation in the Early 1980s Alberta

Sex Salon - Sex, Sin, and Cinema: Obscenity Law and Moral Regulation in the Early 1980s Alberta

26/02/2025    
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This talk examines the history of Canadian obscenity law through key legal cases in Alberta, focusing on the 1980 trial of "Dracula Sucks" in Edmonton [...]
Book Launch: Queer Chimerica by Shana Ye

Book Launch: Queer Chimerica by Shana Ye

26/02/2025    
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the WGSI in celebrating the launch of Shana Ye’s book: Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 4:00pm [...]
Sex & Ethics Reading Group

Sex & Ethics Reading Group

14/02/2025    
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Graduate Students, Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Advanced Undergraduates are invited to join this Reading Group, where we will discuss some of the top books recently [...]
Affect Theatre Workshop

Affect Theatre Workshop

31/01/2025 - 01/02/2025    
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
AFFECT THEATRE WORKSHOP   Workshop Details What:  Affect Theatre is a theatrical technique for working with empirical questions and material, such as ethnographic data, archival documents, [...]
The Raves and Riddims of Queer Diaspora: A Panel Discussion

The Raves and Riddims of Queer Diaspora: A Panel Discussion

29/01/2025    
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Description: Why are queer people from the diaspora partying (or not) today? What kinds of riddims (rhythms) are they dancing to? What’s a buzzkill [...]
Book Launch & World Premier of HEAVY PROCESSING

Book Launch & World Premier of HEAVY PROCESSING

23/01/2025    
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  ABOUT THE BOOK What happens when we take the joke of “lesbian processing” seriously as a research method? Heavy Processing does just this, by tracing the [...]
Picturing by Jory Mickelson Reading & Book Launch

Picturing by Jory Mickelson Reading & Book Launch

22/01/2025    
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join The End of the Line Press on Jan. 22, 2025 at 7 pm at Glad Day Bookshop for the launch of Picturing by Jory [...]
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