Past Events

2023-24 PAST EVENTS 

September 2023 

Sept. 6, 10am-12pm, MN 4207 - Greek and Latin Orientation Open House - Register (virtual) 

Sept. 14, 9:30am-3:30pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Visualizing the Americas Launch - Register (in person) or Register (virtual) 

Sept. 22, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Eric Csapo (Cambridge): Rivalry between Centre and Periphery in the Theatre Industry of the Fourth Century BC 

October 2023 

Oct. 3, 1-3pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture - Register 

Oct. 3, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - WGSS Open House and Welcome with Beverly Bain, Victoria Tahmesebi-Birgani, and Gary Lee Pelleteir 

Oct. 3, 1:45-3:45pm, MN 4207 - Historical Studies Society (HSS) Annual Student & Professor Meet & Greet 

Oct. 3, 7-8:15pm, Virtual Library - WebX, Lecture Me! a Series with Professor Ken Derry: “We Are Our Stories”: Healing and Indigenous Films - Register 

Oct. 5, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Adam Bursi: Prophetic Pieces and Places: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam - Register 

Oct. 12-14 - Humboldt Translation Workshop Series - by invitation only (please contact m.revermann@utoronto.ca) 

Oct. 16, 3-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Intention, Form, and Class: A Conversation with Walter Benn Michaels 

Oct. 19, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series co-sponsored with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (CSACH) - Shireen Hassim, Carlton University Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Studies: "Reclaiming hope as radical lexicon: Some experiments from African feminist political campaigns" 

Oct. 20, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University): Romans as Others: Mobility, Status, and Power Abroad 

Oct. 24, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series co-sponsored with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (CSACH) - Akbar Zaidi: Muslim Identity, the Partition of India and the Making of Pakistan 

Oct. 27, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Cliff Ando (University of Chicago): Republican Religion in Imperial Rome: The View from the Periphery 

Oct. 28, 9:30am-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Teaching Greek and Latin: A Conversation w/ Prof. Lorenza Bennardo - Register 

November 2023 

Nov. 2, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Shenila Khoja-Moolji: Culinary Placemaking: Cookbooks as an Artifact of Displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim Women’s Lives 

Nov. 8, 1-3pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) and Zoom - Palestine/Israel: Historical Roots with S. Michael Lynk, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, and Jens-Peter Hanssen - Register 

Nov. 15, 11am-1pm, MN 4207 - History of Religions' Social Drop-in: Bites and Boardgames - Register 

Nov. 16, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Asim Hussain (@studentAsim): Canadian author and creative producer 

Nov. 16, 7-9pm, WGSI Lounge (40 Willcocks Street, Toronto) - The Pleasure Project: A Queer and Trans Research Lab Funded Project - contact jordache.ellapen@utoronto.ca for more information 

Nov. 18, 9:30am-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - International Epic Network Writing Boot Camp - for more details contact lorenza.bennardo@utoronto.ca 

December 2023 

Dec. 1, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, London): The Beyond Notability Project: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870-1950 

Dec. 6, 11am-2pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Historical Studies End-of-Term Gathering 

Dec. 15, 9pm-2am, 967 College Street (The Society Clubhouse) - The Pleasure Project Launch Party: A Queer and Trans Research Lab Funded Project - Register 

January 2024 

Jan. 26, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Dominik Maschek (University of Trier): The Dynamics of Violence in the Late Roman Republic: From the Periphery to the Centre, and Back Again 

Jan. 29 - 4:30-6pm, Zoom - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Sana Chavoshian: Blood: Mothers and Martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War - Register 

Jan. 31 - 1-3pm, MN 4207 - History of Religions: Bites & Boardgames Part 2 - Register 

February 2024 

Feb. 2, 1-4pm, Zoom (virtual) - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Carrie Murray (Brock University): Religious Worship and Mobility at the Lago di Venere Sanctuary, Pantelleria 

Feb. 13 - 4:30-6pm, MN 4207 (UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Babak Rahimi: 'It is a long way from Kerbela to Calvary': Matthew Arnold's Medievalist ta'ziyeh - Register 

Feb. 15, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Meghan Watson: Feminist Conversations in Mental Health, Wellness, and Care - Register 

Feb. 28 - 1-3pm, MN 4207 - History of Religions: Crafts in the "Aft" - Register 

Feb. 29, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Dr. Nicole Spiegelaar: Feminist Environmental Care - Register 

March 2024 

Mar. 7, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series x International Women's Day - Linda Silver Dranoff: Feminist Law & Policy - Register 

Mar. 7 - 4:30-6pm, MN 4207 (UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Youshaa Patel: How to think about Muslim Difference: On Mimesis and Alterity in Islam - Register 

Mar. 14 - 3:30-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Teren Sevea: Saints, Relics and Fragments: Remembering Malay-Islamic Histories in Ruins - Register 

Mar. 15, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Concluding Session 

Mar. 21, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Azul Baez: The Arts of Feminist Care Workshop - Register (*interactive workshop!) 

Mar. 21, 3:30-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Frank J. Korom: Making Sense of Bawa - Register 

Mar. 21, 5:15pm, Kaneff Rotunda - Classics and the World Today 6: Under the Empire’s Shadow: Living in Imperial States, Ancient and Modern 

Mar. 27 - 1-3pm, MN 4207 - History of Religions: Semester De-Stressor - Register 

Mar. 28 - 12-1:30pm, Zoom - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Mohammad Nabeel Jafri: The Māḥauls of Oratory: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi - Register 

April 2024 

Apr. 4 - 5pm, MiST Theatre, UTM - Music Limited: Boundaries by Society: A Lecture-Demonstration by T.M. Krishna - Buy tickets // more details 

Apr. 5 - 6:30pm, Kaneff Rotunda, UTM - Melodic Cascades: T.M. Krishna in Concert - Buy tickets // more details 

Apr. 8 - 5pm - History of Religions Movie Night - Register 

Apr. 9 - 9:30am-1:30pm, UTM Room (Davis Building, 3140-3141) - Prandium Conference - details - Register 

 

2022-23 PAST EVENTS  

September 2022 

Sept. 22, 2021 - 5:15pm, Kaneff Rotunda, UTM - Classics and the World Today 5 - Diet, Food and Consumption in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Dr. Lin Foxhall, University of Liverpool and Dr. John Wilkins, Exeter University  

Sept. 27, 2022 - 11am-2pm, Presentation Room at the UTM Student Centre - HSS Event - Student/Professor Meet&Greet - Informal Drop-in 

October 2022 

Oct. 3, 2022 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - RGASC Writing Workshop 

Oct. 4, 2022 - 7pm, Mississauga Library online via Webex - Demonic Infestation in 17th-Century Quebec: The Diabolical Arts and Daily LIves of Early Canada - Dr. Mairi Cowan, Department of Historical Studies, UTM  

Oct. 4, 2022 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Jan Bremmer (Groningen): Religious Pluralism in the Ancient World: Herodotus, The Roman Republic, and Late Antiquity 

Oct. 18, 2022 - 11am, Zoom - HSS Event - AIU Academic Integrity Workshop 

Oct. 27, 2022 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Johnston Atoll, Chemical Waste, and US Military Ecologies in the 20th Century, featuring Rohini Patel, PhD Candidate, History - University of Toronto 

November 2022 

Nov. 1, 2022 - 11am, Zoom - HSS Event - Graduate School Panel with Dr. Mattieu Vallieres and Ariadna Pauliuc 

Nov. 8, 2022 - 12pm, Student Centre Presentation Room - HSS & UTMAS Event - Betwixt Bones and Books: LIfe and Death in Skeletal and Archival Data with Dr. Madeleine Mant 

Nov. 11, 2022 - 1:10pm, MS3230 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Claire Taylor (Wisconsin): Comparisons: the case of manumission in the ancient Greek world 

Nov. 17, 2022 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Careers in Historical Studies Panel with Nives Hajdin, Kara Ma, & Laura Carlson 

Nov. 29, 2022 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - CV/Resume Workshop with Panayiota Platanitis from the UTM Career Centre 

December 2022 

Dec. 2, 2022 - 1:10pm, MN3230 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Alex Meyer (Western): Capturing the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets 

Dec. 7, 2022 - 10am, Zoom - HSS Event - Study Session 

January 2023 

Jan. 17, 2023 - 11am, Zoom - HSS Event - Research Skills Workshop with Yayo Umetsubo from the UTM Library 

Jan. 20, 2023 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Planting the seeds for the future: The Nineteenth Century German Kindergarten Movement and the Politics of Early Children's Education featuring Dr. Nisrine Rahal from Wake Forest University 

Jan. 24, 2023 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Writing Skills Workshop: Revising and Editing Academic Papers with Dr. Jordana Garbati, Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP), Director, Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (RGASC) 

Jan. 31, 2023 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Time Management Workshop with Linda Duong, Learning Strategist from RGASC 

February 2023 

Feb. 8, 2023 - 11am, MN5128 - HSS x UTMAS Event - Trivia 

Feb. 9, 2023 - 9am, Zoom - HSS Event - Banquets: From the Romans to the Renaissance with Dr. Teresa Lobalsamo from Language Studies, UTM 

Feb. 10, 2023 - 3:10pm, MN 3230 - Classics Workshop - Ulrich Gotter (Konstanz University): Persecuting Christians: Pliny Letters X.96-97 Revisited 

Feb. 13, 2023 - 10am, MN2130 - HSS Event - Making the Most of Your Undergraduate Experience: A Conversation with Upper-Year Students 

Feb. 14, 2023 - 12pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Realism Reconsidered: Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the Realist Emotional Style with Dr. Mattieu Vallieres  

Feb. 16, 2023 - 11am, Zoom - HSS x LSAS x RGASC Event - Study Habits Workshop with Linda Duong 

Feb. 17, 2023 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Elton Barker (Open): cf.?, or: Forms of Comparison, from Homer to Pausanias 

Feb. 27, 2023 - 10am-1pm, Student Centre - HSS x LSAS x UTMISA x UTM Scribes x Boss Women UTM Event - Book Sale - proceeds will go to Indspire 

Feb. 28, 2023 - 11am-1pm, Student Centre - HSS x LSAS x UTMISA x UTM Scribes x Boss Women UTM Event - Book Sale - proceeds will go to Indspire 

Feb. 28, 2023 - 3-5pm, IB245 - HSS + Boss Women UTM Event - Movie Night: Hidden Figures 

March 2023 

Mar. 1, 2023 - 10-11am, MN2140 - HSS Event - Study Session  

Mar. 2, 2023 - 11am-1pm, MN1100 - HSS + SAGE + RGASC Event - Indigenous Sustainability Learning Circle led by Sam Howden 

Mar. 6, 2023 - 1-2:30pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Google Scholar Workshop with Yayo Umetsubo, UTM Librarian 

Mar. 8, 2023 - 1-3pm, MN3230 - CSACH Event - Bulldozer Raj with Thomas Blom Hansen 

Mar. 9, 2023 - 1-3pm, MN3230 - CSACH Event - Master graduate class on the Politics of Memory and Memorialization with Thomas Blom Hansen 

Mar. 10, 2023 - 9am-12:30pm, DV3140 - Shi'i Islam: Mysticism, Law, Quran and Intrafaith Relations 

Mar. 10, 2023 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Claire Holleran (Exeter): Origins and Odysseys: Migration in Roman Iberia? 

Mar. 13, 2023 - 12-2pm, MN3130 - CSACH Event - Stories We Tell Ourselves: Pakistan's Politics through Narrative Media with Mohammed Hanif 

Mar. 13, 2023 - 1-2:30pm, Zoom - HSS + LSAS + UTMPLO + UTMSCS + UTM Career Centre Event - LinkedIn Workshop with Lucille Yi from the UTM Career Centre 

Mar. 14, 2023 - 12-1pm, Zoom - HSS Event - Essay Exam Preparation Workshop with Jordana Garbati from RGASC 

Mar. 21, 2023 - 11:30am, ROM - HSS + UTMAS Event - Behind the Scenes Trip to the ROM 

Mar. 31, 2023 - 2022-23 Classics Seminar Series - Mary Bachvarova (Willamette): How to Do Comparative Ancient Mediterranean Literary Studies 

April 2023 

Apr. 3, 2023 - 1-3pm, Hybrid - Jesuit Perspectives on a Case of Bewitchment and Demonic Possession in Seventeenth-Century New France with Professor Mairi Cowan 

 

2021-22 PAST EVENTS  

November 2021 

Nov. 18, 2021 - 12-1:30pm - (HSS Event) - Graduate School Panel 

Nov. 18, 2021 - 3pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Sensory Aspects of the Beyond in Ottoman Tombs with Dr. Nina Macaraig 

Nov. 20, 2021 - 7:30-9pm - (CSAC Event) - Trucks, Trollies and Tents 

Nov. 26, 2021 - 10am-6pm - (CSAC Event) - Marxism in South Asia Workshop 

December 2021 

Dec. 6, 2021 - 1pm (6pm UK time) - Book Launch for Martin Revermann's Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics - email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk 

January 2022 

Jan. 28, 2022 - 12-2pm - Feminist Lunch: Digital Governmentality/l Affective Islamophobia among Hindu Nationalist and White Supremacist Groups on Twitter - Zeinab Farokhi  

February 2022 

Feb. 9, 2022 - 4-6pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Making Sense of the Sekaśubhodayā: A Sanskrit Text in an Islamic Shrine Complex of Old Bengal with Dr. Ayesha Irani 

Feb. 16, 2022 - 1-2pm - Annual Desmond Morton Research Excellence Lecture - Martin Revermann - The Theatre of Science  

Feb. 16, 2022 - 6pm - (Black & African Studies, UTM) - Screening and Discussion of landmark feature film RUDE - Clement Virgo  

Feb. 17, 2022 - 4-6pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Visiting the Footprint of the Prophet: Localizing Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Mughal India with Dr. Usman Hamid 

Feb. 18, 2022 - 12-2pm - (HSS) - ROP & Independent Studies Information Session - Faculty & Student Panels  

March 2022 

Mar. 4, 2022 - 2-4pm - Book Launch for Nicole Charles - Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados 

Mar. 4, 2022 - 2-4pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Incremental Building: Tehran's Azadi Square as a Permanently Tentative Monumental Stage with Dr. Zohreh Soltani 

Mar. 8, 2022 - 11-1pm - WGSS Presents International Women's Day Panel: "Feminist Ethics of Care in a Time of Pandemic" - Speakers Mercy Lillian, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, & Cornel Grey 

Mar. 11, 2022 - 3-5pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - Death in the City: Funerary Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim South Asia with Dr. Fatima Quraishi 

Mar. 17, 2022 - 3-5pm - (Muslim Materialities Lecture) - The Mosque in the Qur'an with Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 

Mar. 29, 2022 - 1pm - WGSS Feminist Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Peel Institute for Violence Prevention, Family Service Peel - Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality with Dr. Oliva Espín 

April 2022 

Apr. 7 & 8, 2022 - online symposium - Visualising Pleasure and Practices of Freedom 

 

2020-21 PAST EVENTS 

September 2020 

Sept. 25 (2020), 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Rome, India, China: Comparison and Meaning in the Relief Sculpture of Late Ancient Eurasia' - Jaś Elsner 

October 2020 

Oct. 6, 2020, 7-8pm - Snider Lecture UTM - Abolish the Police, Abolish Prisons: Black liberation in a time of revolt - Robyn Maynard 

Oct. 6, 2020, 7-8:15pm (via Virtual Library WebEx) - Lecture Me! Series - Pathologizing Iran and Islam - Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 

Oct. 7, 2020, 11am-1pm - HSS Event - Professor Meet & Greet 

Oct. 8, 2020, 4:30-5:30pm - Welcome Back Social Hour 

Oct. 9, 2020, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The Gender of Ancient Greek Music' - Mark Griffith 

Oct. 16, 2020, 4-5:30pm - C4E Flash Event, Race/Ethics/Power - #Say Her Name... Breonna Taylor! Race, Ethics & "Justice"? - A Dialogue with Beverly Bain, Idil Abdillahi, and El Jones 

Oct. 30, 2020,, 12-1:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series - Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances - Cynthia J. Cranford 

Oct. 30, 2020,, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Oracular Failure in Ancient Greek Culture' - Esther Eidinow 

November 2020 

Nov. 4, 2020, 10am-12pm - CSAC Workshop - 'Race and Caste': A Conversation with Achille Mbembe and Suraj Yengde 

Nov. 16, 2020, 11:30am-12:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series - Queer Crip Crossroads: Disability Activism in Toronto's LGBTQ community - Nicholas Hrynyk 

Nov. 20, 2020, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The New Normal? Bodies Beyond the Classical Body' - Caroline Vout 

December 2020 

Dec. 3, 2020, 4-6pm (online delivery) - The ArQuives' Trans Collections Guidline Launch - A roundtable discussion on the trans holdings of The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archive, and the histories and futures of trans archival practices 

January 2021 

Jan. 15, 2021, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'The Extremist Ethics of Cicero's De Officiis' - Ingo Gildenhard 

Jan. 15, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - A History of Iranian Women’s Poetry (in Persian)| تاریخ شعر زنان - Rohangiz Karachi, Humanities and Cultural Studies Institute, Tehran 

Jan. 22, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - The City in Film: Imagining Post-WWII Iran in Film-Farsi Popular Cinema - Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Seton Hall University 

Jan. 29, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Feminine Interventions: Early Qajar Women Poets and Their Engagement with the Bazgasht-i adabi - Dominic Brookshaw, Oxford University 

Jan. 30, 2021, 10am-12pm (online delivery) - Centre for South Asian Civilizations - A conversation with Afra Khanum Sherwani, "Journalism in a Time of Uprising: The Farmers' Protest and Dissent in Contemporary India" 

February 2021 

Feb. 5, 2021, 1-4 pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Theory of Mind and Ancient Greek Religious Experience' - Sarah Iles-Johnston 

Feb. 5, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - The International Reception of Iranian Cinema, 2000-2013 - Anne Demy-Geroe, Griffith University 

Feb. 12, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Forugh Farrokhzad, Modernity and Madness - Leila Rahimi Bahmany, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 

Feb. 19, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social Realism: A Close Look at Her Documentary Films - Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Lancaster University 

Feb. 26, 2021, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Daily Life in the Shadow of Late Antique Decline: Urban Case Studies from Apulia' - Darian Totten 

Feb. 26, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Shame, Stigma and Sin:  From Tahirih, to Forugh, to Us - Sholeh Wolpé, University of California, Irvine 

March 2021 

Mar. 2, 2021, 11:30-1:00pm (online delivery) - Feminist Lunch Series - A Reading and Performance by Kama La Mackerel - Based on their new book of poetry: ZOM - FAM 

Mar. 5, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Precarity and Possibility: The Labor of Underground Video Dealers in Iran - Blake Atwood, American University of Beirut 

Mar. 12, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Sonia Balassanian: Writing the Impossible - Claudia Yaghoobi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

March 19, 2021, 1-4pm (online delivery) - UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series - 'Hasiod's Religious Norms in Context: On Works and Days 724-760' - Ivana Petrovic & Andrej Petrovic 

Mar. 19, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Pioneer Female Directors, Writers and Producers in Iranian Cinema - Khatereh Shaibani, York University 

April 2021 

Apr. 9, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Women Depicting Freedom of Movement in Iranian Cinema - Nacim Pak-Shiraz, University of Edinburgh 

Apr. 16, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Women Poets: Gendered Personhood and Displacement - Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of Pennsylvania 

Apr. 23, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - From Golden City to Felestin: The Onomastics of Cinema Halls in Tehran - Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, University of Tehran 

Apr. 30, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Documenting a Tradition: Anthologies of Persian(ate) Poetry by Women - Sunil Sharma, Boston University 

May 2021 

May 7, 2021, 4pm (online delivery) - Iranian Studies Webinar Series - Allegory and Allegoresis in Iranian Cinema - Michelle Langford, University of New South Wales 

 

2018-19 PAST EVENTS 

September 2018 

Sept. 17, 2018 6pm, Mist Theatre - REASON, a film by Anand Patwardhan - free screening and discussion with the film maker 

Sept. 20, 2018, 3pm, North Building (NE4207) - The Spirit of the Sepoy Host - free talk given by Priyamvada Gopal (Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature at the University of Cambridge) 

Sept. 30, 2018, 2:30pm, Davis Building (UTM Room - DV3140) - On the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali - lecture given by visiting pandit H.V. Nagaraja Rao 

October 2018 

The Many Lives of Aurangzeb Workshop:  

Oct. 4, 2018, 9am-4:30pm, New North Building (NE 4207) - Graduate Workshop on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Religious ‘Controversy’ in South Asian Religious History 

Oct. 5, 2018, 9am-12:30pm, Jackman Humanities Building (UTSG) - Student Presentations 

Oct. 5, 2018, 4-6pm, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 5 Bancroft Street (UTSG) - Muzaffar Alam, Persian in the Age of Mughal Decline: A Reevaluation 

Classics and the World Today 3 (CaWT3): 

Oct. 6, 2018, 7 pm, MiST Theatre - Film & Concert - Hari OM Tatsat 

Oct. 16, 2018, 5:30-8pm, New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: The Chess Player (In Urdu with English subtitles) 

Oct. 23, 2018, 12-1pm, New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics: Vaccines, Suspicion and Felt Protection with Prof. Nicole Charles 

Oct. 25, 2018, 5:15pm, Instructional Centre (IB 120) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): Local Identities, Movement, and Global Connections in Antiquity. 

Oct. 26, 2018, 10am-4:30pm, New North Building (NE 4107) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): A Workshop in Methodologies with Prof. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) 

November 2018 

Nov. 6, 2018, 5:30-8pm, New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Nikaah (in Urdu with English subtitles) 

Nov. 12, 2018, 7pm, MiST Theatre (CCT Building 150) - CSAC presents: The Poetry of Amazement, An Evening with Vikram Chandra.  

Nov. 14, 2018, 5-7pm, Davis Building (DV 2082) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Had-Anhad (in Urdu with English subtitles) 

Nov. 15, 2018, 12-2pm, New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: #METOO with Professor Beverly Bain 

March 2019 

Mar. 7, 2019, 3:30-6pm, MiST Theatre (UTM) - The Technoscience Salon - Black Technoscience "Here" - #BlackGirlMagic: On Disability and Possibility in the Digital Age with Dr. Moya Bailey of Northeastern University - Special performance by Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers 

Mar. 7, 2019, 10:30am-5pm, Spigel Hall (UTM) - 2nd Annual Prandium Undergraduate Conference 

Mar. 8, 2019, 10am-7pm, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology (St. George Campus) - Symposium - Transnational Feminism in the Age of Digital Islamophobia 

Mar. 21, 2019, 9am-5pm, David Campbell Conference Facility (St. George Campus) - Symposium - Indigenous Intersections with Dr. Jed Kuhn moderating 

 

2017-18 PAST EVENTS 

October 2017 

Oct. 5, 2017: Conference on South Asian Religions 

Oct. 6, 2017: Conference on South Asian Religions 

Oct. 17, 2017: Professor Chris Petrakos - "The Joke's on Them: Laughter and Social Boundaries in Klondike Miner's Tales, 1886-1896" - Part of the UTM EEO Lecture Me! Series 

Oct. 25, 2017: Dr. Hossein Elahi Ghomshei - "On the Nature of Poetry"  

Oct. 26, 2017: "Invisible No More" by Andrea J. Ritchie - Book Launch and Panel Discussion  

Oct. 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society): AGO - Featured: the Guillermo Del Toro Exhibit 

Oct. 27, 2017 (Historical Studies Society): Professors Cowan, Petrakos, and Derry - 95 Theses 500th Anniversary Panel  

Oct. 27, 2017: Dr. Leonard Lewisohn - "Sufism & the Religion of Love"  

Oct. 28, 2017: Dr. Jane Lewisohn - "Preserving and Archiving Persian Performing Arts and Literature"  

December 2017 

Dec. 5, 2017: EXAM JAM! 

November 2017 

Nov. 3, 2017 (Historical Studies Society): #FNLROM: VALHALLA 

Nov. 7, 2017: Professor Emeritus Robert Johnson - October Surprise: The Global Impact of the 1917 October Revolution 

Nov. 7, 2017: Professor Julie MacArthur, Screening History (HIS211) - Special Guest, acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo (TV series, The Book of Negroes) 

Nov. 11, 2017: Professor Julie MacArthur, Borders Matter: Mapping and Unmapping African History - part of TEDxUTM 2017 

Nov. 12, 2017: Kudiyattam: Ancient Drama in the Present 

Nov. 16, 2017: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Theory and Praxis with Dr. Gabrielle Hosein and Dr. Lisa Outar 

Nov. 28, 2017: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi , Orientalism and Occidentalism Undergraduate Symposium 

Nov. 29, 2017 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks Series): Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV - Jessica Lynn Whitbread and Mercy Lillian Gichuki 

Nov. 29, 2017 (Historical Studies Society): Exclusive screening of Warehoused: The Forgotten Refugees of Dadaab  

January 2018 

Jan. 10, 2018 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks Series): Indigenizing Institutions - Jill Carter, Tarah Hogue, Denise Booth McLeod, and Kris Noakes - Moderated by Nicole Laliberte 

Jan. 25, 2018 (HSS): HSS Presentation of Victor Frankenstein 

Jan. 26, 2018 (HSS): HSS General Meeting  

Jan. 26, 2018 (CSAC): RAJAN! Movie Night 

February 2018 

Feb. 1, 2018: Humanities and Social Sciences Career Night 

Feb. 26, 2018: Paper Proposals for the First Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference Due  

March 2018 

March 1, 2018 (HSS): HSS Presents: Seeing Capitalism's Ghosts: Labour, Migration, and Human Rights in 20th Century United States - Erica Toffoli 

March 2, 2018 (HSS): Historical Studies Society General Meeting 

March 2, 2018 (HSS): Historical Studies Society Annual Trivia Night 

March 6, 2018 (CSAC): Screening of the award-winning film Chauthi Koot 

March 6, 2018 (WGS): Lecture with Dr. Sirma Bilge: Minority Knowledges, Academic Entrepreneurial Selves, and Neoliberal University: Learning from the Institutional Trajectories of Intersectionality 

March 8, 2018: Lecture with Dr. Jessica Stites Mor: Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Latin America 

March 9, 2018 (Feminist Lunchtime Talks): Policing Black Lives: Panel with Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, Beverly Bain of WGS, and Sheena Hoszko, Sculptor and Anti-Prison Organizer 

March 13, 2018: Colloquium: Humanity is the Measure of All Things: A Colloquium Exploring Late Antiquity's Intellectual and Spiritual Diversity 

March 13, 2018 (CSAC): Colloquium Keynote: Aesthesia and Anaesthesia in Vaisnava Liturgy and Metaphysics - Dr. Ronald Inden 

March 13, 2018 (HSS): Defiant Braceros - Dr. Mireya Loza 

March 15, 2018: Classics and the World Today 2: Authority and Non-Conformity in the Ancient World 

March 16, 2018: HIS498Y: History Internship Student Presentations 

March 19, 2018 (HSS): First Annual Prandium Undergraduate Research Conference  

March 22 & 23, 2018 - MENA Conference (WGS): International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism” 

March 23, 2018: RLG401H: Lectures on Religion and Literature - Topics include: video games, Watchmen, Superman, Star Wars and zombie comics. 

March 23, 2018: RLG401H: Lectures on Religion and Literature - Topics include: video games, Watchmen, Superman, Star Wars and zombie comics. 

March 23, 2018: HIS498Y: History Internship Student Presentations  

March 23, 2018 (HSS): #FNLROM: EQUINOX  

March 26, 2018 (CSAC): Centre for South Asian Civilizations and Politics Research Workshop: Left Politics in South Asia - Past, Present, Future 

April 2018 

April 4, 2018: RLG401H: Lectures on Religion and Literature  

April 26 - May 26, 2018: Queering Family Photography: Roundtable   

May 2018 

May 3-5, 2018: International Conference on Religion & Film 

May 11, 2018 (LAS): Truthfulness in Photography: The Photoplastic Mexican Montages of Josef Albers