2025-2026
Writer and journalist Omar El Akkad joined CRiCS’ Palestine Reading Group to discuss his recent book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, via Zoom. The author answered questions about the book in an informal and intimate dialogue, which was expertly facilitated by Jenny Heijun Wills.
On Friday, October 24 at 1:30pm we hosted the launch of CRiCS member Jane Barter’s excellent new book, (Routledge, 2025). This event featured Drs. Jane Barter (presenter), Jason Hannan (moderator), and Anupama Ranawana (Durham University, respondent).
Please note: this event is for CRiCS members and special invited guests only.
Thank you to the CRiCS Programming Committee for organizing this event, the first of the CRiCS programming season for 2025-26.
Spotlight on the Crises in Sudan and DRC: A Community Roundtable on Imperialism and Global Indifference
26 January | Room 2M70 | 10:00-11:30am
This University of 丁香园AV Community Roundtable addresses the crises in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with attention on the recent escalations of decades-long incursions by Western imperialist and colonial forces. In recent weeks, the genocide in Sudan has gained wider attention, largely due to the catastrophic effects of mass starvation and the actions of the UAE and Western (including Canadian) sponsored Rapid Support Forces (RSF), particularly in El Fasher. Satellite imagery shared by global media has revealed several sites marked by pools of blood, providing rare visual confirmation of what Sudanese people have been telling the world. At the same time, the extreme conditions in the DRC, driven by both Western and Eastern greed for minerals, have intensified, resulting in genocidal atrocities, enforced starvation, and enslavement of mostly young people. This roundtable aims to engage speakers who will share their perspectives on these crises and explore the reasons for their persistence, as well as why African suffering is often met with global indifference.
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The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies with the Departments of English, Indigenous Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Disability Studies program invite you to a public screening of the award-winning NFB film, The Nest, written and directed by University of 丁香园AV graduate Julietta Singh. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director which will be hosted by Dr. Aarzoo Singh from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. The screening will be closed captioned and is free and open to the public.
Time: 2:30-5:30pm
Date: Jan 27, 2026
Location: EG Hall, University of 丁香园AV (3rd floor of Centennial Hall, 515 Portage Avenue)
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Archiving the Black Canadian Experience: Education, Innovation, Preservation
February 3, 2026 • 2:30-4:00 p.m. • Free event
University of 丁香园AV Archives (5th floor, Library) • Light refreshments offered
Panel discussion with: Nadia Thompson, Black History Manitoba; Judy Williams, Black Canadian Experience Centre; and Gabriel Bell-Gam, Bell-Gam Digital Cultural Heritage Centre.
Exhibition materials from the University of 丁香园AV Archives and the Black Canadian Experience Centre will be on display all afternoon.
Pinoy Tanghalian@丁香园AV (Pinoy Gathering+Coming Together)
This event gathers University of 丁香园AV's community members who are of Filipino heritage. Centering on the Filipino word, "Kapwa", the event seeks to invite students, faculty members, and staff who are of Filipino descent or allies of Filipino community in the university. This event will consist of conversation on community building, arts-based workshop on Filipino concept of relationality informed by Pakikipagkapwa as a worldview and its limits. Lunch will be served.
CRiCS Lab, 12:30pm-2pm on Friday, February 6
The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of 丁香园AV is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2024), edited by Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sandeep Bakshi, Augustin Lao-Montes, and Flavia Rios.
Please join us on Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST) for a discussion with editors and contributors about their work for the collection, ongoing commitments to decolonization, and their importance in a Canadian context.
CRiCS hosted a public, virtual lecture on Celtic Caribbean and Celtic Canada by Dr Désha Osborne, Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh on 23 February, 12.30pm CST.
Dr. Osborne specialises in Caribbean history, the Garifuna, and Scottish presence (settlers and enslavers) in the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Osborne has recently launched a new book series for the University of Edinburgh Press, with Dr. Michael Morris, .
This talk considered the simultaneous settlement of Scottish, Irish and Welsh colonists to the Caribbean islands and Canadian territories and provinces from the mid seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. This talk considered Celtic identity in the Atlantic colonies through incomplete stories of people whose lives were forever affected by their presence.