Two FIST professors, Amrita Hari and Fady Shanouda, have been honored at the 2024-2025 FASS Awards, with Prof. Hari receiving a Research Excellence Award and Prof. Shanouda being recognized with an Early Career Research Award. Their dedication to advancing knowledge in their respective fields is truly commendable, and we’re thrilled to share their achievements.

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This Friday at noon, Dr. Manjeet Birk will be taking part of the “Unpacking: A Conversation Centering Lived Experiences of Racism” panel. This panel is 1 of 2 panels part of the SPPA Students’ Anti-Racism Symposium – organized by the School of Public Policy and Administration Society and the SPPA Anti-Racism Committee.

This symposium is a dedicated student-led panelist forum that centers on anti-racist knowledge mobilization and honours the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Panelists will include SPPA students and diverse experts from the academia, non-profit, and public service sectors.

Date: February 2, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 2nd floor Conference room, Teraanga Commons

The event will feature two panel discussions:

Panel 1 – Unpacking: A Conversation Centering Lived Experience of Racism

This panel will recognize persons who have lived experiences of racism as knowledge sources, with the goal of providing BIPOC students/employees with relevant skills and resources. In addition, the discussion will seek to raise broader awareness about the realities of racism and opportunities for change, acknowledging that everyone has a stake in anti-racist work

Panel 2 – Unlearning: A Conversation on Institutional and Systemic Change

This panel seeks to understand anti-racism using a macro lens of analysis. Recognizing that power is fundamentally and systemically embedded in institutions, the discussion aims to investigate institutional unlearning by highlighting institutional responsibility in effecting change.

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For more information, please contact the SPPA Society Equity Team: Chenai Wamambo (VP Equity – ChenaiWamambo@cunet.carleton.ca) or Rory Palau Zea (Equity Representative – RoryPalauZea@cmail.carleton.ca). Or visit the event website.

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“Meet Your Professors” video series showcases passionate Profs from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Learn more about Dr. Amrita Hari‘s research and teaching and why you should join the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation (FIST) at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. Professor Amrita Hari from FIST discusses her research on migration and identity, and how to recognize the diverse ways in which gender, sexuality, race, class, and dis/ability shape our lives and the world around us.

Dr. Hari is the Director and an Associate Professor at FIST. Her research focuses on global migration, transnationalism, citizenship, gender, diasporic formations, intersectional identities and acts of resistance of refugees and asylum seekers. Her work engages with the notion of “doing gender” within the context of migration, gendered division of household labor, and the Canadian labor market.

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Two FIST professors will be participating in the ‘Coffee with a Prof‘ initiative’ which is organized by ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dr. Manjeet Birk is available by appointment and Dr. Katie Bausch is available on campus and/or on Zoom, Tuesdays & Thursdays between 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., by appointment.

To set up a coffee date, please follow these 3 easy steps:  

Step 1: Contact the professor of your choice from our list of participating faculty members (see below) and find a mutually convenient time for your meeting.  We’ll pay for your coffee at the campus Bridgehead in the Nicol Building or you can meet virtually over Zoom.

Step 2: Once you have confirmation from the professor, please email Sarah Mohammed with the details of your coffee chat.

Step 3: If you’re meeting in person, tell the employees behind the counter at Bridgehead that you’re participating in the Coffee with a Prof program and your coffee will be paid for!  If you’re meeting online, you or the prof can schedule a Zoom meeting at a time convenient to you both.

Fall program dates: October 3 – December 9, 2022

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The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies is pleased to invite creative thinkers to submit proposals for our upcoming event, Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making, that aspire to move beyond institutionalized (academic, governmental, religious, medical, etc.) methods of inquiry and knowledge-making.

Please see here to access the full call for submissions and the guidelines to submit. This is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, as well as community members. Submissions can be sent to wgstsymposium2022@gmail.com by February 5^th, 2022.

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The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University is hiring a part-time replacement for the Assistant to the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies for the period from Jan 2022-Feb 2023.

For further details, see job number J1121-0674 at:

The position involves support for both the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies (currently Professor Nadia Abu-Zahra) and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies

For further information, please contact Lana Keon (LanaKeon@carleton.ca) or Ann Cvetkovich (anncvetkovich@cunet.carleton.ca).

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Dec 6, 2021

Dear friends of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies:

On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we continue to to remember and to mourn the women whose lives were cut short at École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.  Although we cannot restore this terrible loss, we continue to honour and recognize it through the work that we do at the Institute to address gender-based violence, which continues in a multitude of forms.  As our poster suggests, there are intersectional connections to be made to specific forms of violence and misogyny against racialized and Indigenous women, transgender women, and femmes, LGBTQ2SIA+, and gender non-binary people.  We dedicate ourselves to creating spaces that are safe for open discussion and study for all, and where grief can be expressed, so that we can transform the worlds we live in to eradicate violence.

Ann Cvetkovich

Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies

ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

Message to Undergraduate Students in WGST 1808

Dear 1808:

Today, December 6, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, which is recognized across Turtle Island. This is a very important day that I would like to comment on. Please note, that there are references to violence below, especially gender-based, misogynistic violence. Please do not hesitate to contact anyone on the teaching team should you be looking for resources to discuss this violence.

 I would like to add that it is up to everyone in our community, regardless of gender, or ability, or race, or sexuality, or class, to call attention to not only the darkness of the misogynistic and gender-based violence that continues today, but also to the many victories for those who have fought for change.

However, as feminist thinkers in our learning community of WGST 1808, we are also keenly aware that when we talk about and take action on misogynistic and gender-based violence, we will consider gender, ability, race, sexuality, class, among other things. We will especially remember and consider that the very supports our communities can offer have workers who are the very perpetrators of the violence, such as in the legal system.

We are going to continue to talk about all of this in WGST 1808 and I am happy to talk about it with anyone via Zoom or in-person at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. – Katherine Bausch

If you are looking for information on this National Day of Remembrance (this article contains detailed descriptions of violence and also national resources for support to talk about misogynistic and gender-based violence):

If you are looking for supports at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´:

ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Sexual Assault Survivor Support:

ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Support Services:

If you are looking for other community-based supports:

Under the Umbrella:

Somerset West Community Health Centre Support Line for African, Caribbean, and Black Communities:

MMIW Ontario:

Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre:

For information and resources related to women with disabilities and violence:

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Congratulations to all!

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Cross-appointment professor, Kelly Fritsch has co-authored “We Move Together”, a new children’s book that “chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of characters as they cleverly negotiate barriers and conflicts that impede their ability to move together. But more than that, We Move Together is a celebration of disability culture, community, and friendship, showing disability as a desirable part of our communities and world”.

Read more about this amazing work here: /fass/story/the-transformative-power-of-moving-together/

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