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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...

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...

Professor Cynthia Enloe: Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture: Michaelmas 2022

6 September 2022

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...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022-23 Call Deadline Announced

20 July 2022

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022-23 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...

Congratulations to the 2021-2022 MPhil Cohort!

27 June 2022

Photo © Michael Pastor, UCCGS MPhil Student 2021-22 Huge 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.