Meet Our Team! Dr. Tegan Zimmerman – AMI Chair Tegan Zimmerman is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute at Mount Saint Vincent University and Chair of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Comparative Gender Studies Research…
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2022 International Day of the Girl Child Celebration Friday October 14 | 9:00am – 1:00pm | Virtual, Microsoft Teams The Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice (AMI) is organizing a free…
AMI Graduate Women & Gender Studies Fellowship Application The Alexa McDonough Institute (AMI) at Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) invites applications for its graduate student fellowships. Appointments will start in October 2023 and end in…
Dr. Alexa McDonough, OC, ONS was a stand-out leader, feminist and cherished member of the Mount Saint Vincent University family. To summarize her legacy in one paragraph is impossible; what follows only begins to describe…
Mission To help this generation of Nova Scotian girls develop, appreciate and celebrate their own abilities and talents and those of other girls and women, to help them to empower themselves, build confidence, and be…
Registration The registration fee for this conference is 40.00$ CDN and is capped at 200 participants. Payment and registration for this event must be completed through Eventbrite, our conference registration platform. Registration open soon! *Once…
Girls 2017 Literary Competition Request for Literary Submissions The 2017 Girls Conference Writing Contest is open to all girls, young women and nonbinary youth aged 12 – 18 living in Nova Scotia. We are seeking…
Understorey Magazine is an online magazine of literary writing and visual art by and about Canadian women. We feature fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, spoken word and visual art that tell stories of women’s lives. Vision:…
Join our network today! Signing up is easy and FREE! — your name and email address, that’s it, you’re done! Joining the Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice’s network will connect you…
Advancing women, gender, and social justice The Mount Saint Vincent University Institute for the Study of Women (ISW) was revitalized in 2011 and renamed the Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice (IWGSJ) to reflect…