Upcoming Events

Women Scholars’ Speaker Series 2022-2023 Virtual Events

"The University and its Worlds"

What is a university? Whose interests does the institution serve, and which communities and lifeways does it exclude or harm? The 2022-2023 University of Lethbridge Women Scholars’ Speaker Series, “The University and Its Worlds,” will explore these pressing issues through a number of virtual events. In the midst of ongoing funding cuts, precarity, labour struggle, public health crises, settler colonialism, racist violence, and neoliberal extractivism, we offer an opportunity to think deeply together about what is – and what could be. Featuring invited speakers from Canada, Turkey, and the United States, this year’s WSSS will focus in particular on the politics of employing ‘Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’ as a frame for addressing historical inequities and exclusions; a panel honouring the intellectual and activist work of our late colleague Dr. Gülden Ozcan; the management of sexual violence on campus; and the academic well-being of racialized students.

The 2022-2023 WSSS will remain an online event, open and free to the public.