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Postgraduate Virtual Open Days 2024

23 October 2024

The University will be hosting a series of online events this autumn for the Postgraduate Virtual Open Days 2024 designed to help prospective applicants explore postgraduate study at Cambridge, including book talks and visits, opportunities to chat with current students and academics, and practical advice on application...

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...

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...