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Gender & Tech Event

20 September 2023

UCCGS is hosting an event to mark the end of our ‘Gender and Technology’ project at 4.00pm on Friday 3 November 2023 at the Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge . We will be celebrating a successful two years of The Good Robot Podcast , which now has over 40,000 downloads and launching the volume Feminist AI...

INT Academic Career Development Fellowship

21 August 2023

Fixed-term: 3 years. UCCGS and Downing College seek to appoint an Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies and Human, Social, and Political Sciences . The Fellowship is a new opportunity for exceptional scholars to contribute to both research and teaching within a Department and College...

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-24

2 August 2023

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-24 internal call deadline has been announced. If you wish to apply through the Centre for Gender Studies the deadline for applications is Wednesday 23 August 2023 . The Fellowships have an early October deadline, with departmental selection of candidates occurring in...

The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor: Michaelmas Term 2023

24 July 2023

We are delighted to announce that Professor Patricia Hill Collins , Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, will be the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor for the Michaelmas Term 2023. Professor Hill Collins’s Visiting Professorship Lecture, Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender...

Professor Judith Butler 'Who Is Afraid of Gender?' Lecture Recording Now Available

7 June 2023

UCCGS is delighted to announce that Professor Judith Butler's recent public lecture Who Is Afraid of Gender? which took place on Wednesday 26 April 2023 is now available to view on YouTube

Queer Hispanisms Now

15 May 2023

The Centre for Gender Studies is delighted to announce a two-day conference on 'Queer Hispanisms Now' which will take place Monday 3 - Tuesday 4 July 2023 in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building. The panels will be organised around critical debates currently taking place in the field of Queer Studies and panellists will be...

Book Launch and ‘In Conversation’: 'Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother' by Juliet Mitchell

12 April 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...

UCCGS Gates US Scholar-elect 2023-24: Anne Lheem

20 February 2023

The Gates Cambridge Trust has announced the results of the US selection round 2023 . The Gates Cambridge Trust has awarded scholarships to 23 outstanding candidates from across the United States. We are delighted to announce that Ms Anne Lheem , MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, has been awarded a Gates US...

Professor Bina Agarwal public talk: 'Progressive laws, Regressive practice? Gender, land and productivity in India'

2 November 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 the Alison Richard Building . The event was co-hosted by the Centre for Gender...

Amalgam: Queering the Body Politic

6 October 2022

We are delighted to announce a poetry reading and conversation with the award-winning poet and writer C. Dale Young at 6.00 pm on Thursday 27 October, in the Auditorium of Fitzwilliam College . C. Dale Young will be in conversation with Dr Isaias Fanlo , Assistant Professor in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies...