Research Seminars Archive
Academic Year 2024-25
Monday 17 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa
Dr Shannon Philip, Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality; Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge
Monday 10 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Pink Arcadia: Collective Memory and Contemporary Queer Culture
Aaron Muldoon, PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Monday 3 March 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Interpreting the Traces: Black Women's Histories in Eighteenth-Century London
Montaz Marché, PhD Student, University of Birmingham
Monday 24 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
In defence of what’s there: scavenging as queer and feminist methodology
Dr Sophie-Marie Niang, Lumley Fellow in European Cultural Studies, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Monday 17 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Visible, invisible: Black women in higher education
Dr Victoria Showunmi, Vice Dean EDI and Associate Professor, University College London
Monday 10 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
This is what a philosopher looks like: an exclusionary norm? (co-authored paper with Heather Widdows, University of Warwick).
Dr Charlotte Knowles, Assistant Professor in Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, University of Groningen
Monday 3 February 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade
Dr Leila Ullrich, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford; Fellow, Worcester College
Monday 27 January 2025: 12.30 to 13.30
Absent Mother States: the emotional afterlives of the British welfare state
Dr Helen Charman, Fellow, College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies in English, Clare College, Cambridge
Monday 2 December 2024: 12.30–13.30
Decolonising Trans/Gender Studies?
Dr Alyosxa Tudor, Reader in Gender Studies; Chair of Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London
Monday 18 November 2024: 12.30–13.30
Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project
Dr Rachel A. Katz, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Salford
Monday 4 November 2024: 12.30–13.30
Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in Post-War Britain
Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History, UCL, and Dr Natalie Thomlinson, Associate Professor of Modern British Cultural History, University of Reading
Monday 21 October 2024: 12.30–13.30
Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances
Dr Holly Porter, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies & Deputy Director, UCCGS
Academic Year 2023-24
12.30pm, Monday 11 March 2024:
Dr François·e Charmaille, Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
Gender as a Grammatical Metaphor
12.30pm, Monday 4 March 2024:
Professor Caroline Bressey, Professor of Historical Geography, Department of Geography, University College London
Lion Queens: Performing with Animals in the Victorian Circus
12.30pm, Monday 26 February 2024:
Professor Helen McCarthy, Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge & St John’s College
Gendering Retirement: a Historical Perspective
12.30pm, Monday 19 February 2024:
Namrata Narula, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Gender Non-Realism: Rereading Judith Butler's Performativity In Dialogue With Śaṅkara's Advaita
12.30pm, Monday 12 February 2024:
Professor Sherilyn MacGregor, Department of Politics, University of Manchester
‘Destroy the Patriarchy Not the Planet’: Ecofeminism and the Climate Emerge
12.30pm, Monday 5 February 2024:
Dr Xine Yao, Associate Professor in American Literature to 1900 and co-director of the queer studies network qUCL, University College London
Stone Butch Blues and Pillow Princesses: On Queer Hardness, Softness, and Crip of Colour Critique
12.30pm, Monday 29 January 2024:
Dr Lucia Kula, Lecturer in Law and Gender, School of Law, SOAS University of London
Abandoning the Idealised White Subject of Legal Feminism
12.30pm, Monday 22 January 2024:
Dr Ali Meghji, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics
12:30-13:30, Monday 6 November 2023:
Dr Marcin Smietana, Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London
Queer Calculations: Spreadsheet Fertility and Racial Matching in British Gay Men's Reproductive Projects
12:30-13:30, Monday 23 October 2023:
Dr Julia A. Empey, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond
12:30-13:30, Monday 9 October 2023:
Dr Geoffrey Maguire, Gonville & Caius College; Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Un/Natural: Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological
Academic Year 2022-23
12:30-13:30, Monday 13 March 2023:
Dr Lorna Dillon, Murray Edwards College & Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Embroidering Resistance: 'Arpilleras' and the Transversality of Feminist Activism in Latin America
12:40-13:40, Monday 6 March 2023:
Professor Sohela Nazneen, Institute of Development Studies
Voters, Brokers, Claim-makers, Protestors: Unpacking Women’s Political Agency in Fragile Polities
12:30-13:30, Monday 20 February 2023:
Dr Anna A. Berman, University of Cambridge
The Nineteenth-Century Family Novel in Russia and England: A Gendered View
12:30-13:30, Monday 13 February 2023:
Reetika Subramanian, PhD Candidate in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, UCCGS
Brides of Drought: from girl, to wife and worker
12:30-13:30, Monday 6 February 2023:
Dr Rachel O'Connell, University of Sussex
"To smoke until he could see through time": History, affect, and trans genres in Imogen Binnie's 'Nevada'
12:30-13:30, Monday 30 January 2023:
Dr Jamie Hagen, Queen's University Belfast
Queer and Feminist Collaborations in Peacebuilding
12:30-13:30, Monday 14 November 2022:
Dr Suzanne Persard, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of South Florida
The Radical Limits of Decolonising Feminism
12:30-13:30, Monday 31 October 2022:
Dr Caroline Rusterholz, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Women, sex and family planning in Britain (1920s-1980s)
12:30-13:30, Monday 17 October 2022:
Jade Bentil, Black Feminist Historian
Love in a Future Tense: Beauty, Glamour and the Sexual Politics of Black Life in 20th Century Britain
Academic Year 2021-22
12:30-13:30, Monday 16 May 2022:
Juliana Demartini-Brito, PhD Candidate in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, UCCGS
Devouring "Queer": Oswald de Andrade's "Manifesto Antropófago" and Queer Studies in Contemporary Brazil
12:30-13:30, Monday 9 May 2022:
Jenny Moran, PhD Candidate in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, UCCGS
Loveability - A Critical Theory
12.30-13.30, Monday 7 March 2022:
Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, Professor in Social Justice, King's College London
Another way of telling: feminism and the politics of presentation
12.30-13.30, Monday 7 February 2022:
Dr Robert Pralat, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children: Sexual identities and reproductive orientations
12.30-13.30, Monday 31 January 2022:
Dr Jacob Breslow, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics
‘Sex is Real,’ and other Gender Critical Non Sequiturs: A TERF Grammar Book
12.30-13.30, Monday 24 January 2022:
Linda Connolly, Professor of Sociology and Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Maynooth University; Visiting fellow, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Understanding Violence Against Women in the Irish Revolution – a global perspective
13.00-14.00, Mon, 29 November 2021:
Dr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago, Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge
Toward a Decolonial Reproductive Justice and the Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru
13.00-14.00, Monday 15 November 2021:
Professor Lucy Delap, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Feminism, Race and ‘Third World Women’ in Late Twentieth Century Britain
14:00-15:00, Monday 1 November 2021:
Professor Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University and General Co-Editor, Transgender Studies Quarterly
Being Street: On the Evidence of Trans Feminine Experience
13.00-14.00, Mon, 18 October 2021:
Lola Olufemi, Black Feminist Writer, Author of ‘Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power’
In Search of an Imaginative Method
Academic Year 2020-21
12.30-13.30, Monday 8 March 2021:
Dr Victoria Browne, Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
Pregnancy without Birth
12:30-13:30, Monday 1 March 2021:
Jules Allen, PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Gender, Performativity and Fathers’ Use of Parental Leave
12.30-13.30, Monday 22 February 2021:
Gisela Carrasco-Miró, Visiting Professor, Gender Studies Department, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Decolonizing Feminist Economics
14.30-15.30, Monday 15 February 2021:
Dr Sophie Lewis, Visiting Scholar, The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women, University of Pennsylvania; Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Mothering Against Motherhood, Gestating Against Gender?
14.30-15.30, Monday 8 February 2021:
Cáel M. Keegan, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA
Against Queer Theory, or How to do Things with Trans
14.30 – 15.30, Monday 25 January 2021:
Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities, Williams College, USA
Captive Maternal Contradictions: The Limits of Advocacy when "Black Women Save Democracy”
12.30-13.30, Monday 30 November 2020:
Dr Miriam Bak McKenna, Adjunct Lecturer in International Law, Lund University, Sweden
Materialist Feminism: The Political Economy of Gender Equality
14.00-15.00, Monday 16 November 2020:
Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Board Member, Distinguished Academy, Department of Africana Studies, and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Binghamton University
Feminism as Epistemicide: A Trojan Horse of Progressivism
14.00-15.00, Monday 2 November 2020:
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California
Blackwomanhood en Abyme: The Ecstasy and Noise of Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground
12.30-13.30, Monday 19 October 2020:
Professor Lindsay Clowes, Women's & Gender Studies Department, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Men, masculinity and feminist theory in a South African university