Academic Year 2022-23

Public Talks in Easter 2023

The Centre for Gender Studies co-sponsored a two-day conference on 'Queer Hispanisms now' on 3 - 4 July 2023.  The panels in this conference were organised around critical debates currently taking place in the field of Queer Studies and panellists were invited to contribute to those debates by exploring the intersections between queerness and Hispanism.  Convenor: Isaias Fanlo, University of Cambridge.

Professor Srila Roy (University of the Witwatersrand) discussed her new monograph ‘Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India’ (Duke University Press, 2022) with Shuvatri Dasgupta, an Associate Lecturer at the School of History, University of St Andrews. The event took place online on 7 June 2023.

The Centre for Gender Studies hosted an event to mark the launch of Professor Juliet Mitchell's latest book Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother(Routledge, 2023) on Tuesday 2 May 2023 at Keynes Hall, King’s College. Professor Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College; Professorial Research Associate, UCL, was in conversation with Dr Holly Porter, Deputy Director, UCCGS.  

The Department of Sociology, LGBTQ+@Cam and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies hosted a public lecture by Professor Judith Butler on Who is Afraid of Gender? on Wednesday 26 April 2023 at the West Road Concert Hall. This event is now available to view online here.

Public Talks in Michaelmas 2022

Professor Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the GDI, University of Manchester gave a public talk on Progressive laws, Regressive practice? Gender, land and productivity in India on Tuesday 22 November at theAlison Richard Building. The event was co-hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies, the Centre of South Asian Studies and the Centre for History and Economics. A recording of the talk can be accessed here

A poetry reading and conversation with the award-winning poet and writer C. Dale Young was held on Thursday 27 October 2022 in the Auditorium of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and co-hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies. Young, in conversation with Dr Isaias Fanlo, Assistant Professor in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies & Iberian Studies Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, discussed the creative process, writing in the intersections of race and queerness, the connections between poetry and medicine, and his forthcoming collection of New and Selected Poems,Building the Perfect Animal.