Academic Year 2023-24

Public Talks in Easter 2024

UCCGS co-hosted a public lecture with the Faculty of Education and the Knowledge, Power Politics Research Group for Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University on Thursday 26 September 2024 in the Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College, Cambridge.  Professor Honig's lecture noted resonances between Hannah Arendt’s account of action as “action that appears in words” (The Human Condition, 1958) and J.L. Austin’s account of performativity, where “the issuing of an utterance is the performing of an action” (How to Do Things with Words, 1955/62).  Despite torrential rain, the lecture was well-attended and it was followed by a Q&A and a Drinks Reception, to coincide with a two-day conference to mark the launch of the Hannah Arendt Consortium (HAC) on Crises and Political Transformation.  Our sincere thanks to all contributors.

UCCGS was delighted to co-host this year's University of Cambridge Biennial International Lecture on Globalisation, Sustainability and the Power of Ideas with WTO Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on World Trade, Development and Sustainability on Friday 19 July 2024.  The online event offered the chance to understand how world institutions are evolving to address our world’s challenges, including obstacles and opportunities for the World Trade Organization in urgent socio-economic transformation towards sustainability, and it provided a unique opportunity to share insights on our ever-changing world.

Public Talks in Michaelmas 2023

A one-day symposium on Women Art Freedom organised by art historian Katayoun Shahandeh (SOAS) and sound artist Fari Bradley (UAL), brought together women academics and artists of Iranian origin to speak about the role of the visual and performing arts in the movement for women’s rights in Iran.  This event was supported by the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and was held at the Howard Theatre, Downing College on Saturday 18 November 2023.The University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies hosted a Gnder & Tech Event to mark the end of our Gender and Technology Research Project on Friday 3 November 2023 at the Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.  The event was held to celebrate a successful two years of The Good Robot Podcast, which now has over 40,000 downloads and launched the volume Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Intelligent Machines (Jude Browne, Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage, and Kerry McInerney) published by Oxford University Press.  Speakers included special guests Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT) and Lauren F. Klein (Emory University), authors of the award winning book Data Feminism published by MIT Press, who reflected on how feminist theory, ideas and approaches can positively shape tech development and deployment.