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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 Violence was held in St. Jo…

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

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 invited to contribute to tho…

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; P…

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 Scholarship for 2023-24 and we s…

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 Asia…

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; Iberian Studies Fellow at Fi…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor, Clark University, will give the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture on 'Making Feminist Sense of the Ukraine War' on Monday 7 November at 5.00 pm. The lecture will be held at the Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge and will be…

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships2022-23 internal call deadline has been announced! If you wish to apply through the Centre for Gender Studies the deadline for applications is Wednesday 24 August 2022. The Fellowships have an early October deadline, with institutional selection of candidates occurring in September. Applicants must be UK …

Photo © Michael Pastor, UCCGS MPhil Student 2021-22Huge congratulations to the 2021-2022 UCCGS MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies cohort on successfully submitting their dissertations! To celebrate the Centre held an end-of-year gathering in the wonderful gardens at Peterhouse.

Many congratulations to our Christina Gaw Gender and Technology Postdoctoral Researchers, Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth, who have recently celebrated the 10,000th download of their excellent podcast The Good Robot. The podcastfeatures interviews with leading figures involved in a wide range of projects that challenge unjust technological …

Congratulations to UCCGS PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies student Ayanda Mhlongo, who has been named a Future Africa Fellow. This is an honour aimed at developing public sector leaders in Africa.Ayanda has also received a 2022 Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans Award. She is researching intergenerational historical trauma through the …

Congratulations to UCCGS PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies student Reetika Subramanian, who was one of three winners of the Bill Gates Sr. Prize from the Gates Foundation. Reetika's research is on the impact of the climate crisis on gender violence in India, and she has also set up the Climate Brides project to promote accessible knowledge a…

The Centre for Gender Studies hosted the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture onLeaving No One Behind vs. Respecting Local Ownership in Development Cooperation: Conflicting Norms about LGBTQI+ Rights in Hostile Environmentson Monday 6 June 2022.The Lecture was followed by a Q&A, chaired by Dr Lauren Wilcox, UCCGS Centre Director and a drinks r…

The Gates Cambridge Trust has announced the complete Class of 2022, made up of 79 outstanding new scholars.We are delighted to announce that Ms Waruguru Gaitho, PhD in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, has been awarded a Gates International Scholarship for 2022-23 and we send our warmest congratulations to Waruguru on this great achievement.Schola…