The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo in conversation with Meghan McDermott Memories of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its requirement for all Chinese to register were [...]

Annual General Meeting 2023 PEN Canada’s AGM will take place on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 5:30 pm ET on Zoom. Please RSVP by Monday June 12th, [...]

SILENCING ACROSS BORDERS Join this free online event about Digital Transnational Repression on June 6th 2:00 – 3:30 pm. Canadian-based writers and journalists face increasing threats [...]

May 23, 25 and 27 @ 8pm at the Tranzac Club, Main Hall, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto Come along to WEPFEST, the West End Pheonix Spring [...]

Confronting the new wave of Antisemitism Philip Slayton In conversation with Samir Gandesha Antisemitism is resurgent in our age of social media, identity politics, and populism. [...]

  Ethnic/Religious Nationalism & Academic Freedom: The Study of China CFE Series: Threats to Academic Freedom Increasingly, scholars of a nation’s history, politics, and culture [...]

April 19th is National Canadian Film Day! Join Reel Canada and PEN Canada on April 19th at Scotiabank Theatre (259 Richmond St W, Toronto) at [...]

One year after Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his invasion and muzzled Russian media, what have we learned from the war against Ukraine and against journalists?  Join three Russian journalists who spoke at a CFE panel one year ago to see how they have refused to be silenced. How are Russia’s independent media fighting to expose the truth about the war? What are the challenges  as the war heads into its second year?

Join us on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 pm at the Hirut Ethiopian Jazz Club, 2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto to hear the work of four [...]

20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival The Grab (2022) Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm Location: Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor [...]