Dr Talita Calitz will be joining CES on an IAS Residential Fellowship in the week 19th - 25th June 2016, as a result of ongoing collaboration with Dr Emily Henderson (CES).

Dr. Z Nicolazzo (http://cedu.niu.edu/cahe/about/faculty/z-nicolazzo.shtml) will be joining CES from 6-10 June 2016 on an IAS-funded Residential Fellowship, which has resulted from ongoing collaboration with Dr Emily Henderson (CES).

Heather Switzer from Arizona State University will be visiting CES on 11^th April.

Heather is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at ASU and is working at the intersection of Girlhood Studies and International Development Studies. During her visit, Heather will present "Postfeminist Politics and Girl Effects: School(ing) Girls in Global and Local Discourse" at the CES Seminar Series . A seminar based on her current book project, School Girls: Learning Gender and Developing Identity in Contemporary Kenya.

Heather is joining CES for the day as a colleague of Emily Henderson. If you would like to meet with Heather during the day of 11^th April, or have any other questions about her visit, please contact Emily Henderson: e.henderson@warwick.ac.uk.

Depictions of conferences as being dull and exhausting make it ‘almost impossible’ to imagine them as places of intellectual engagement, Dr Emily Henderson of CES warns.