The Gender Research Seminars offer academics and postgraduate students an opportunity to present their work-in-progress to a multi-disciplinary audience interested in gender, in a friendly and informal atmosphere. Seminars are held on specified days during Michaelmas and Lent terms and everyone is welcome to attend.
Unless indicated otherwise seminars will take place in S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP and online via Zoom. If you would like to attend in-person no registration is required. If you would like to attend online please register in advance via Eventbrite.
The seminars are organised and chaired by Sigal Spigel. If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in presenting your work at a Gender Research Seminar, please email Sigal at sis22@cam.ac.uk
Lent 2026
Monday 2 February 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
Organized Transphobia in Right-Wing-Times
Dr Alyosxa Tudor, Reader in Gender Studies and the Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London
*This seminar will be held online via Zoom only. Please register here.
Monday 9 February 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
The New Menopausal Subject
Professor Catherine Rottenberg, Head of Culture and Media and Professor in the School of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London
Please register here.
Monday 16 February 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
Blurred Violence: Exploring the Politics of the Misogynist Involuntary Celibate Community
Dr Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, Postdoctoral Researcher at Goldsmiths
Please register here.
Monday 2 March 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
Gender Beyond the Binary in Europe
Professor Peter Dunne, Associate Professor, University of Bristol Law School
This seminar will be held in person only.
Monday 9 March 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
To be notified
Dr Elizabeth K Robles, Senior Lecturer in Contemporay Art, Department of History of Art (Historical Studies), University of Bristol
Monday 16 March 2026: 12.30 to 13.30
Whence and Whither Intersectional Theory?
Dr Claire Crawford, Teaching Associate in POLIS, University of Cambridge
Please register here.
Michaelmas 2025
Monday 20 October 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Imperfect victims: Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Carlos J. Zelada, Associate Professor at the School of Law of the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru
Monday 3 November 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Kurdish and Queer Struggles for Democracy and Peace: Transformative Dialogues
Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
Monday 17 November 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
“Pryce’s Buoy”: Alan Turing’s Short Story and Homosexual Literature
Professor Sarah Dillon, Faculty of English; Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
Monday 1 December 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
“Could it happen again...Will I die?”: The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape
Princess Banda, DPhil student; School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
