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Panel: '(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies'

28 January 2025

(Photo credit: Alexandra Lily Kather) On Monday 3 February 2025, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) , with the support of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, is organising the panel ' (Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies...

The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor: Lent term 2025

4 December 2024

Professor Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University, USA is the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor for the Lent term 2025. Professor Povinelli’s Visiting Professorship Lecture, 'Alice Henry and the Collapse of the Western Plateau' was held in...

Live Q&A sessions for prospective applicants with UCCGS MPhil and PhD Directors

22 October 2024

Dr Lauren Wilcox , Director of the UCCGS MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies will be holding live Q&A sessions for prospective MPhil students via Zoom. If you would like to attend, please register online at the UCCGS Eventbrite Live MPhil Q&A for your preferred time-slot: Friday 8 November: 9.30 - 11.00 am...

Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow

8 February 2024

We are delighted to welcome to the Centre Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies and Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) at UCCGS and Downing College. Juliana's research focuses on feminist, decolonial, queer, and intersectional approaches to...

Gender & Tech Event

20 September 2023

UCCGS hosted an 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 to launch 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, is the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor for the Michaelmas Term 2023. Professor Hill Collins’s Visiting Professorship Lecture, Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender and...

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...