Free Queen’s April 7: “Making Sense of Cinema: Looking beyond Plot and Character for Meaning in Film”

Please note that the final class of Making Meaning will take place on Monday April 7th at 6:30-8:30pm in Watson Hall Room 217.

Click here to find where that is, its building number 76.

Apologies for the confusion. We hope to see you there!

Winter 2008 Course

The Free Queen’s Winter 2008 course which will start on Monday January 14, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in Dunning Room 12.

Making Meaning: Conversations on Society and Culture

We are very excited about our Winter course which is completely organized by and run by Queen’s University Graduate students. You can access details about each week of the course here.

ACCESIBILITY – We are pleased to announce that we will have hearing aid devices available at the lectures for those who need them. If you have any other accessibility requirements please contact us at freequeens@sgps.ca or 613.533.2924 and we will do our best to ensure those needs are met.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration will begin on Monday January 7, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. No early registrations will be accepted.

You can register:

by email to: freequeens@sgps.ca

-or -

by telephone to: 613.533.2924

Registration for the course is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 80 people. Your name can be added to the waitlist if you like.

New course

We’ve posted the schedule of our Fall 2007 course, coordinated by Queen’s Archives–
The Magical History Tour: A Social History of Kingston.
Click on Current Course (right) to view it.

Registration opens August 30 (and not a day before!).
You can register then either by calling 613-533-2924 or by
e-mailing freequeens@SGPS.ca

The Equity office at Queen’s has ably handled Free Queen’s course registration since our inception in 2000, and we thank them. Now the office of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students is taking over that job. We welcome the interest and support of Queen’s grad students in developing courses for the Greater Kingston Community.

Fall Course News

Next up…our fall 2007 course
A Social History of Kingston presented by Queen’s Archives.

Registration for this course will open August 30, 2007. A full description of the course and information on how to register will be available here in mid-August. If you would like to receive information about Free Queen’s course offerings by email, send an email to equity@queensu.ca and ask to join our list.

Guy Things

The slides from Jason Laker’s presentation on March 4th are now available. You may also access his video, “Keep Your Distance: Images of Masculinity” online. Realplayer is required to view the video and can be accessed here. Follow the link mid-page to the free version of RealPlayer.

The slides can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat format here: Guy Things.

No Class March 12th

Unfortunately the speaker cannot make it in time for class today due to the train derailment in Kingston. All the buses that aren’t full won’t get her here until after 8:00 p.m. We will see about the possibility of rescheduling the class – so please check the website. Please pass on this information to anyone you know who attends Free Queen’s. Thank you.

Schedule Changes

Please note that the schedule has been updated. Caroline Baillie, who was supposed to present on February 5th, will now be presenting on March 26th and Margaret Little has been re-scheduled to present on Monday April 2nd.

No Class on February 19th

This is just a reminder that there will be no class next Monday February 19th due to reading week. Classes will resume the following week on Monday February 26th with Sylvat Aziz on The political economy of the hijab.

February 5th Class cancelled

Unfortunately the speaker has been detained due to a snowstorm and as a result class will be canceled on Monday February 5th. Stay tuned for more information about the possibility of rescheduling the class.

There will be no class next week due to Reading Week but classes will resume the following week with The political economy of the hijab with Sylvat Aziz on February 26th.

Correction: Class will resume next week with Demystifying Care-giving and Work Contradiction with Justyna Sempruch.

Winter Term Course Update

The upcoming Winter Term course, titled What is Women’s Studies? will open for registration on Monday, January 8th, at 9 am. To register interested participants may contact the Equity Office by phone or email at (613) 533-2563 and equity@post.queensu.ca. Drop-ins are also welcome to Room 12 Richardson Hall, University Avenue. Registration will be conducted on a first-come first-served basis with a waiting list.

Course lecture topics include:

• An Introduction to Gender & International Development
• Social Justice, Women & Engineering
• Demystifying Care-giving & Work Contradiction
• Guy Things: Boys & Men Learning & Doing Masculinities
• The space of Feminist Freedom: Ressentiment, Politics & War
• Women, Gender & Music – What are the Connections?
• Women & Poverty

This course will run Monday evenings from January 29th – March 26 2007 between 6:30 – 8:30 PM. The full schedule is available here.

Please see the updated Expectations page for the new Registration Policy and Attendance Policy.