Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events


2008-10-16 13:00: Women's experience of harassment in public space. (Kate Painter. Department of Criminology, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 15:00: Women's Status Men's States (Catharine MacKinnon (Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School))

2008-10-27 13:30: 'What AIDS says about America's gays: the founding of GMHC and ACT UP' (Larry Kramer)

2008-11-09 15:00: In Conversation with...Hisham Matar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-11-13 13:00: Practising gender: Men's experiences of transition to first-time fatherhood (Tina Miller –  Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology.  Oxford Brookes University)

2008-11-20 13:00: Mother-Daughter relations in Chodorow and Irigaray (Alison Stone –  Department of Philosophy. Lancaster University)

2008-11-24 13:00: In Conversation with...Hisham Matar (Hisham Matar)

2008-11-27 13:00: Thighs wide open, hair loose – Gender specific attitudes towards napping in Japanese public transport. (Brigitte Steger –  Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. University of Cambridge)

2009-01-15 13:00:  Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Gender Inequalities. (Prof Jackie Scott – Department of Sociology, Cambridge.)

2009-01-16 17:00: In Conversation with... Andrew Tucker (Dr. Andrew Tucker, Geography Dept. University of Cambridge)

2009-02-05 13:00: Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Senecan drama (Medea and Phaedra)'. (Dr. Mairead Mcauley-Dept of Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, SA.)

2009-02-09 17:30: In Conversation with...Margaret Heffernan (Margaret Heffernan)

2009-02-12 13:00: Death and the Maiden? Women in early Christian Martyrdom Accounts. (Prof. Judith Lieu-Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge.)

2009-02-26 13:00:  Jesuits and Eunuchs: Re-encountering Gender in late Ming China. (Dr. Mary Laven-Faculty of History, Cambridge.)

2009-03-05 13:00: Wazhmah Osman-Media, Culture, and Communication, VisitingThinking Outside the Box: Television and Gender in the Afghan Culture Wars. (Wazhmah Osman, New York University)

2009-03-12 13:00: The development of early adolescent boy's gender stereotypic attitudes and beliefs in relationships: implications for well-being. (Carlos Santos-Department of Applied Psychology, Visiting Student, New York University.)

2009-05-20 09:15: Oppression & Revolution: A Symposium in honour of Juliet Mitchell’s retirement from the University of Cambridge (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-12 12:30: Sex-gender-family relations, the twentieth century experience (Prof Göran Therborn. Department of Sociology, Cambridge)

2009-10-26 12:30: Gender Segregation in Employment: International Patterns of Inequality and Difference (Dr. Bob Blackburn. Emeritus Reader in Sociology, Cambridge)

2009-11-02 14:00: Not Our Mother's Movement: Historical Amnesia and the Attenuated Legacies of U.S. Feminism (Professor Nancy Hewitt, Visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-09 12:30: Researching Social Change: Methodology, History and Memory. (Assoc. Prof Julie McLeod. Melbourne Graduate School, University of Melbourne)

2009-11-13 13:00: In Conversation with...Professor Karen O'Brien author of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Professor Karen O'Brien, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

2009-11-23 12:30: Peeling off the skin, peeling off the past: the politics of aesthetics and practices of health in Serbia (Dr. Maja Petrovic-Steger, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)

2010-01-15 13:00: In Conversation with...Dr Celia Roberts, author of Messenger of Sex (Dr Celia Roberts, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)

2010-02-01 12:30: Acting up and acting out: encountering children in a longitudinal study of mothering (Professor Rachel Thomson, School of Health and Social Welfare, Open University)

2010-02-04 17:00: The Disenchantments of Sexuality (Professor Henrietta Moore, William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-08 12:30: The Poetry of Early Motherhood (Ms Joanne Limburg, Writer and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Magdalene College)

2010-02-15 12:30: Family snaps: doing family, home and mothering with photographs (Professor Gillian Rose, Department of Geography, Open University)

2010-02-22 12:30: Gendered Detection: Crime Fiction and Modern Narrative (Professor Mary Evans, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent and Visiting Professor at the LSE)

2010-03-01 12:30: Sex, gender and fair play - policing the Athletic Body in international sport (Dr Vanessa Heggie, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-08 12:30: 'More than Love': Levinas and Rosenzweig from Eros to Ethics (Ms Andrea Cooper, Mainzer Visiting Fellow, New York University)

2010-03-12 09:00: Annual Gender Symposium: Gender and Scales of Empowerment (Professor Cindi Katz - CUNY Graduate Centre, Professor Catherine Campbell -  LSE, Dr Matt Houlbrook - University of Oxford, Professor Cynthia Cockburn - City University London, Dr Nayanika Mookherjee - Lancaster University)

2010-04-29 13:00: Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Professor Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London)

2010-05-05 17:00: Domestic Violence and International Law (Professor Bonita Meyersfeld, Head of Gender, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

2010-06-02 17:00: Darwin and the Descent of Woman (Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Cambridge)

2010-10-11 12:30: Where's Foucault now? (Professor Simon Goldhill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-18 13:00: Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative (Dr Yael Feldman, Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture, Affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, New York University)

2010-10-25 12:30: Classed and Gendered: White Middle class boys and girls fitting into the Urban Comprehensive (Professor Diane Reay, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-26 17:30: Global Gametes: Reproductive 'Tourism' and Islamic Bioethics in the High-tech Middle East (Professor Marcia Inhorn, The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2010-10-29 13:00: Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire (Dr Phil Howell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-08 12:30: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Marriage: a study in modern kinship (Dr David Lehmann, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-22 12:30: Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand (Professor Haim Bresheeth, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London)

2011-10-10 12:30: Conflict and Compatibility of Reproductive and Productive Roles: evidence from British longitudinal data (Professor Heather Joshi, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London)

2011-10-21 17:00: Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste (Professor Cindi Katz, City University of New York)

2011-10-24 12:30: Gender in Medicine: is there benefit or harm in sexless healthcare? (Dr Anita Holdcroft, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2011-10-31 13:00: Women on Boards: Business as Usual! (Professor Susan Vinnicombe and Dr Ruth Sealy, Cranfield University)

2011-11-07 13:15: Sex Before the Sexual Revolution in England 1918-1963 (Professor Simon Szreter, Faculty of History, Cambridge)

2011-11-21 12:30: Collecting Time: on reading Luisa Passerini's 'Autobiography of a Generation' (Dr Lisa Baraitser, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London)

2012-01-23 12:30: Knowing their Place: domestic service in twentieth-century Britain (Dr Lucy Delap, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2012-01-30 12:30: Palestinian Refugees: gendered and intergenerational narratives of displacement and return (Dr Ruba Salih, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, London)

2012-02-01 17:00: Are we on the road to real equality? (Ms Virginija Langbakk, Director, European Institute for Gender Equality)

2012-02-06 12:30: Darwin and Gender (Dr Philippa Hardman, Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-13 12:30: Feminist Debates Over NRTs Revisited: or, whatever happened to FINRRAGE? (Professor Sarah Franklin, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-16 17:00: After Blue Labour? State and Democarcy on the British Left (Professor Marc Stears, Political Theory, University of Oxford)

2012-02-20 12:30: Choice Feminism, Breast Implants and Ideas of Consent in North American Feminist Theory (Dr Joanne Wright, Political Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada; Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge)

2012-02-27 12:30: Considering Feminism when Writing Fiction for Young Girls (Alison Pollet, Author)

2012-03-05 13:15: The Female as a Defective Male in Aristotle's Biology (Dr Sophia Connell, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-09 10:00: Appearances of Gender (See below.)

2012-03-12 12:30: Women's Work, Men's Cultures: overcoming resistance and changing organisational cultures (Dr Sarah Rutherford, Diversity Consultant, London)

2012-10-11 17:00: Gender, Security and Inter-generational Conflict in Muslim Societies Post 9/11 (Professor Akbar Ahmed, American University, Washington DC)

2012-10-22 12:30: Emiratisation: bringing youth into the workforce of the United Arab Emirates (Ms Mona Hamade, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies )

2012-10-29 12:30: Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 (Dr Helena Sanson, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-19 12:30: Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: performing masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons (Dr Ben Griffin, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-21 12:30: Gendering the Early Modern Witch-Craze (Dr Ulinka Rublack and Laura Kounine, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-28 12:30: From Old Jew to New Jew and Back Again: The Metamorphosis of Israeli Masculinity in the Twentieth Century (Dr Yaron Peleg, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies)

2013-01-31 17:00: Willful Women: Feminism and the History of Will (Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths College, University of London)

2013-02-04 12:30: Gender Equality Law and Policy for 15 or for 27? Lessons from the Post-Communist Czech Republic (Dr Barbara Havelková, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-11 12:30: The Practices of Executive Selection: A Gender Analysis (Ms Monica Wirz, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2013-02-18 12:30: Writing in the Mother Tongue: the yin-centred feminism of Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' (Dr Liesl King, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, York St John University)

2013-02-25 12:30: Weak But Clever: The (Not So) Hidden Strengths of Women in Medieval French and Spanish Comico-Didactic Tales (Dr Andreea Weisl-Shaw, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-04 12:30: Disappear here: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa as a Web-Situated Subculture (Ms Charlotte Wu, Alumnus, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2013-03-11 12:30: Negotiations of Gender, Sexuality and Intimacy in Trans People's Partnerships  (Dr Tam Sanger, Independent Researcher)

2013-10-14 12:30: Margaret Mead as a mid-20th century public intellectual (Professor Peter Mandler, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-24 17:30: A Postgenomic Perspective on Sex and Gender (Professor John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter)

2013-10-28 12:30: The 'ethereal female' motif in Arctic fiction of the 19th Century (Dr Shane McCorristine, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-11 12:30: Beyond Romance: Love, knowledge and fragility in contemporary french women's writing (Dr Amaleena Damlé, Department of French, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-18 17:30: Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing 'Some Like it Hot' as a Heterosexual Dystopia (Professor Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol)

2013-11-25 12:30: Feminism in Israel: Spotlight on the Israeli multicultural rifts (Professor Henriette Dahan Kalev, Gender Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Senior Academic Visitor, St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

2014-01-27 13:00: Good and Evil in Sexual Objectification: putting Kant to feminist work (Professor Rae Langton, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-03 12:30: Lilacs Out of the Dead Land: Alina Marazzi's home movies (Professor Emma Wilson, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-07 17:30: Behind Marx’s “hidden abode”: toward a gender-sensitive conception of capitalism (Professor Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research, New York)

2014-02-10 12:30: Advancing Intersectionality Theory Through Realist Ontology (Angela Martinez Dy, Nottingham University Business School)

2014-02-17 12:30: Mapping the Post-Oedipal Landscape in Feminist and Gender Studies (Dr Victoria Browne, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)

2014-02-24 12:30: Cultures of Childlessness: current debates and past experiences, Germany 1900-2010 (Dr Christina Benninghaus, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-03 12:30: The Private is International: Intimate Partner Violence Against Immigrant Women in the UK and Sweden (Halliki Voolma, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2014-10-13 12:30: “Swimming in a Sea of Oestrogens": The Production and Reproduction of Sex/Gender in Chinese Toxicology (Dr Janelle Lamoreaux, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-27 12:30: The (In)visible Gay in Academic Leadership: Implications for Re-imagining Inclusion and Transformation in South Africa   (Dr Robert Balfour, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education)

2014-11-03 13:00: From the Pill to the Pen: an autobiography by Professor Carl Djerassi (Professor Carl Djerassi, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, Inventor of the Contraceptive Pill, Playwright)

2014-11-03 17:00: Feminism and the Abomination of Violence (Professor Jacqueline Rose, the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor)

2014-11-10 12:30: Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research  (Professor Terrell Carver, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol)

2014-11-24 12:30: A Bit of Himself: British Male-authored Abortion Narratives from Waste to Alfie (Fran Bigman, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-26 17:00:  Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival 1900-1950 (Professor Paul Ginsborg, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence)

2014-12-03 17:00: Women in Dark Times (Professor Jacqueline Rose, the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor)

2015-01-19 12:30: Rites of Passage: sexual knowledge in Cate Shortland’s “Lore”, 2012 (Professor Andrew Webber, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-26 12:30: Sex, Gender and Generation in Early Modern Medical Records (Dr Lauren Kassell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-02 12:30: Sharing Responsibility for Prevention  of Intimate Partner Violence (Ms Alasia Nuti, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-09 12:30: Penny-Pinching Pedagogy: desperately seeking the ‘authentic thrifter’ (Dr Tracey Jensen, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London)

2015-02-10 17:30: 'A New Kind of Wildness' - the Rite of Spring and Other Queer Journeys into the Wild (Professor Jack Halberstam, The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies )

2015-02-13 13:00: Unstoppable Transformations: Rural to Urban Migration and the Chinese Patriarchy (Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2015-02-16 12:30: Feminism, Motherhood and Eugenics in pre-WWI Berlin; or: How to promote reform through literary writing? (Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-23 12:30: Marketing the Women Writer in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Dr Abigail Brundin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-02 12:30: Listening to Different Voices: reconceptualizing corporate social responsibility using feminist standpoint theory (Ms Helen Mussell, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2015-03-04 14:30: “The Kids are Not All Right: LGBT+ Student Lives beyond the Happy Normal and the Suicidal Exception” (Jeff Lockhart, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2015-03-09 12:30: Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance (Ms Beatrice Balfour, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge )

2015-06-04 13:00: Virtue and Virility: Images of Male Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century France (Dr Andrew Counter, Lecturer in 19th Century French Studies, King's College, London)

2015-06-11 17:30: Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations (Dr Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)