This year, the seminar series will focus on feminist research methodologies, exploring various ways research is done within feminist and anti-oppressive scholarship.

This three-part lecture series will take place in-person and all are welcome to attend. All lectures will take place from 1:00 – 2:30 pm at 108 St. John’s College and will feature:

• Dr. Lindsay Larios and Emma Cowman
• Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette
• Dr. Arpita Biswas

Past Critical Conversations Series

Critical Conversations on Water and Justice – 2025

• Indigenous Water, Indigenous Science with Dr. Myrle Ballard, Dr. Az Klymiuk, and Dr. Miguel Uyaguari-Diaz
• Navigating Water Injustice Under Climate Colonialism with Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos and Rick Harp
• A Conversation About Art, Community and Advocacy with Jaimie Isaac, Dr. Aimée Craft, KC Adams, and Taylor Galvin

Critical Conversations on Reproductive and Bodily Justice – 2024

• Bridging the Disconnect Between the Criminal Legal System and the Reproductive Justice Movement with Dr. Martha Paynter
• “The crying need for Indian foster homes”: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices with Dr. Sarah Nickel
• Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care with Dr. Ethel Tungohan
• Migrant Reproductive Justice: Perinatal and Abortion Care with Precarious Immigration Status  with Dr. Lindsay Larios

Critical Conversations on Borders and Human Rights – 2023

• Talking Borders, Colonialism, Resistance, and Human Rights with Harsha Walia and Dr. Alex Wilson
• Water and Borders – A Roundtable with Drs. Cary Miller, Dr. Teresa Montoya, Dr. Emma Norman, Dr. Nicole J. Wilson, and Dr. Adele Perry
• Rethinking Borders: Transnational Movements, Resistance, Identity, and Gender with Dr. Lorena Fontaine, Dr. Shauna Labman, Dr. Rob Lorway, Dr. Shayna Plaut, and Dr. Lori Wilkinson

Critical Conversations on Human Rights and Historic Wrongs – 2022

• Questions that Convey Indigenous Historical Perspectives with Dr. Robert Alexander Innes
• Experiences of Enslaved Black People in Colonial Canada with Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield
• Across Oceans of Law with Dr. Renisa Mawani
• Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories & Legacies with Dr. Rhonda L. Hinther and Dr. Jim Mochoruk
• The Patients who never came home: ‘Indian’ Tuberculosis and Indigenous Health Care in Manitoba, 1930s-1970s with Dr. Erin Millions and Dr. Anne Lindsay