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 2025
Monday 27 January 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Absent Mother States: the emotional afterlives of the British welfare state
Dr Helen Sharman, Fellow, College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies in English, Clare College, Cambridge
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 3 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade
Dr Leila Ullrich, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford; Fellow, Worcester College
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 10 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
This is what a philosopher looks like: an exclusionary norm? (This is a co-authored paper with Heather Widdows, University of Warwick).
Dr Charlotte Knowles, Assistant Professor in Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, University of Groningen
*Online via Zoom*
Monday 17 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Visible, invisible: Black women in higher education
Dr Victoria Showunmi, Vice Dean EDI and Associate Professor, University College London
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 24 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
In defence of what’s there: scavenging as queer and feminist methodology
Dr Sophie-Marie Niang, Lumley Fellow in European Cultural Studies, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 3 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Interpreting the Traces: Black Women's Histories in Eighteenth-Century London
Montaz Marché, PhD Student, University of Birmingham
*Online via Zoom*
Monday 10 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Pink Arcadia: Collective Memory and Contemporary Queer Culture
Aaron Muldoon, PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 17 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa
Dr Shannon Philip, Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality; Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Michaelmas 2024
Monday 21 October 2024: 12.30 to 13.30
Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances
Dr Holly Porter, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies & Deputy Director, UCCGS
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 4 November 2024: 12.30 to 13.30
Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in Post-War Britain
Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History, UCL & Dr Natalie Thomlinson, Associate Professor of Modern British Cultural History, University of Reading
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 18 November 2024: 12.30 to 13.30
Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project
Dr Rachel A. Katz, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Salford
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
Monday 02 December 2024: 12.30 to 13,30
Decolonising Trans/Gender Studies?
Dr Alyosxa Tudor, Reader in Gender Studies; Chair of Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London
*In-Person & Online via Zoom*
