Check out these upcoming events that the Mad Studies hub is hosting!
Virtual Student Brown Bag Series
This is a student-led informal event where you will have the space to connect with other students, learn about fellow students' research and share your research related to Mad Studies!
The meetings will be the fourth Wednesday of the month from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Our next dates are the following!:
- Mar 25, 2026
- Apr 22, 2026
Register at the following link and add the Zoom meeting to your calendars!
Zoom registration:
https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJRC9WvdTaOy6hIKIQEECw#/registration
Embodied Intersectional Praxis (EIP) and Black LGBTQ+ Refugee Mental Health
The Mad Studies Hub would like to invite you to our next event, Embodied Intersectional Praxis (EIP) and Black LGBTQ+ Refugee Mental Health. This transformative roundtable explores:
- Embodiment, Trauma & Healing
- Black & Queer Refugee and Asylum Seeker Mental Health
- Structural Violence, Forced Migration & Displacement
- Ethics & Research Accountability
- Policy Not Designed With Us in Mind
- Lived Experience as Knowledge
- Decolonial & Critical Praxis
- Access to Care & Systemic Harm
This roundtable brings together scholarship, lived experience, and community practice to explore how migration, racialization, queerness, and policy intersect in shaping healing, harm, and justice. Grounded in Embodied Intersectional Praxis (EIP), this conversation centers lived experience not as anecdote, but as theory, method, and intervention.
Moderated by: Michaela Hynie, Professor and Interim Director for the Centre for Refugee Studies.
Speakers:
- Patricia Bailey-Brown, PhD Candidate, York University
- Mbalu Lumor, PhD Candidate, York University
- Rita Wairimu, New Circles Community Services
Date: March 24, 2026
Time: 2:00–3:30 PM
Location (Hybrid Event*): South Ross 802, York University
* The Zoom link will be sent the day prior to the event to those registered!
Please register here or scan the QR code in the poster!
Mad Studies: The Basics—In Conversation with Merrick Pilling
Take part in our continued conversation with Merrick Pilling regarding their newly released book Mad Studies: The Basics. We will have an interactive panel and Q&A session to learn more about the book that explores the wide range of Mad Studies and what this field helps us understand and do. From theory to praxis, come and join us to further expand your knowledge and Mad Studies in general! This event is free of charge and open to the public.
- Date: May 13th , 2026
- Time: 7:30 PM
- Format: In-Person
- Location: Glad Day Bookshop (https://www.gladday.ca/)
- Register Here: TBA