UTSC Department of Historical & Cultural Studies

Join us for a teach in on why Palestine is a feminist issue on March 4, 2024 from 1:00-3:00pm in HW305, Humanities Wing UTSC. Lunch will be served at 12:00pm. All UofT students, staff and faculty are welcome!

Please register by March 1 at https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=JsKqeAMvTUuQN7RtVsVSENDjdG3XxA9LphkcI_Do0DJUN1VRQkZPTVdSWlFPRVU5Qkk1QkNOMUFPWi4u

We are delighted to host a talk by Wendell Adjetey called 'In the Wake of Black Power: Triangulating Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Atlantic World.' This hybrid lecture on Nov. 23 from 12:45 to 3p.m. in MW130, Kina Wiiya Enadong Building (formerly known as the MW Building) will examine militant Black organizing and the state repression that ensued across the U.S.-Canadian border and in the Caribbean Basin. A light lunch will be served. Learn more and register at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hcs/events/black-power-counterinsurgency-and-gendercide-united-states-and-canada-1960s-1970s

Do you know that Ethiopia has had its own written literature for the past 2000 years? Join us at this talk with Dr. Hagos Abrha Abay on November 2, 2023 from 11:00-1:00pm in HW 308 to learn more! All are welcome!

Join GASC57H3/HISC57H3 guest speaker, Nien Lin Xie, Research & Learning Librarian at Dartmouth College to learn more about the "Down to the Countryside Movement" during China's Cultural Revolution. An eyewitness to this historic movement, and curator of the "Down to the Countryside Movement" database at Dartmouth College, she will share her unique experiences and insights into this significant period of history. All are welcome to attend!

We regret to inform you that the campus visits for Monday, Feburary 27th and Tuesday, February 28th have been cancelled.

We look forward to seeing you all at the campus visits on Monday, March 20th and Tuesday, March 21st!

Join us starting next week for our campus visits with the candidates for our Associate Professor/Professor position in Black Feminist History! Please note that teaching talks and meet and greets with undergraduate students will take place at UTSC, while research talks will take place at the Department of History on the St. George campus.

All members of the UofT community are welcome!

Learn more about each candidate at our events page: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hcs/events

HCS stands in solidarity with Palestinian students, staff, faculty, and other members of our community in the face of enduring Israeli state violence in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem), and on Palestinian citizens within the 1948 borders.

For our full statement and links to the information mentioned, please see: https://uoft.me/HCSPalestineStatement

Join us for the upcoming teaching and research talks in conjunction with our search for an Associate Professor of Black Feminist Histories and Thought!

All talks will take place via Zoom. Register and see more information on the talks and candidates at: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hcs/campus-visits-associate-professor-black-feminist-histories-and-thought-candidates

New year, new building! We've moved to the 2nd floor of the MW Building, come by and say hello! 👋