You are warmly invited to this year's CSWG Annual Lecture. The lecture is open to all and will be followed by a reception.

Speaker: Prof. Wendy Hollway (Open University)

Discussant: Dr. Julie Walsh (University of Warwick)

Becoming a mother, gender and feminism

The period of becoming a mother is a fundamental issue for feminism and a challenging one for the transdisciplinary study of women and gender, involving experiences that are hard to access through available language and discourses. How we understand, theorise and represent the perinatal period of mothering reaches into questions of gender equality and gender difference, parenting and how we treat women's reproductive bodies and the biological. To explore these themes, my talk draws on a piece of empirical research about becoming a mother for the first time, using Bracha Ettinger’s matrixial theory to point beyond the binaries in accounts of women’s reproductive capacities, parental care and gender equality.

WENDY HOLLWAY is Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the Open University. She is interested in applying psychoanalytic principles to theorising subjectivity, to methodology and to empirical research on identity, especially with reference to gender. Her ESRC-funded research on the transition to a maternal identity uses both free association narrative interview and psychoanalytic observation methods. Her most recent book is ‘Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change’, 2015, Palgrave.

As part of the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series, you are warmly invited to attend a special talk given by Dr Blu Tirohl, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Gender Studies, on ‘How to Get Published'.

In this seminar, which will be particularly valuable to PhD students and early career researchers who are planning to publish research on gender, Dr Tirohl will discuss the journal’s aims and objectives, how papers are refereed and managed by the journal, factors that commonly lead to rejection, and tips for getting published. All are welcome and no registration is required.

Further details can be found on the Graduate Seminar Series homepage.

A seminar on 'Sex work, work and women as workers: beyond definition debates' is being given by JaneMaree Maher from the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research (Monash) on Thursday February 18th in R1.13.

The seminar will be followed by wine, soft drinks and nibbles.

This event is one of a series of events during JaneMaree's visit to Warwick. All are welcome to attend and there is no need to register.

ABSTRACT

Consistent debates over the validity of defining sex work as work have defined social and regulatory responses and, to some extent, mean that the 'sex' aspect of sex work tends to dominate discussions about work in this diverse industry. In this paper, drawing on a number of recent empirical projects conducted within the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, I focus on women's work practices, and how women negotiate the regulations and conditions of their sex work workplaces. From this data, I argue that women's acounts of their sex work are very often pragmatic, focussed on financial gain and on work/life sustainability. Debates about work or not work are not relevant to women seeking to optimise their time and labours in the sexual services industry. I argue more attention needs to be directed towards women's work rights and opportunities, as women workers themselves are suggesting. Overall, persistent discussions about the status of sex work act as a form of exclusion and stigma that limits positive forms of reulation and rssponse to women's aspirations and objecrives as they work in sex work.

JaneMaree Maher, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash, is holding a writing workshop entitled: Publishing from your PhD: timing and tactics. This workshop will explore the processes of publishing during doctoral research. Topics covered include: how to identify and target the best journal for your work; how to develop a compelling abstract; how to structure a journal article drawing on sections of your research project; and how to respond effectively to referee reports. This workshop will include opportunities for discussion of student work and case studies of successful publication strategies.

JaneMaree has run the very successful Prato PhD writing workshop for many years.

Contact nickie.charles@warwick.ac.uk to register for the workshop. Places are limited and registration is essential.

Speaker: Gunlög Fur (Linnaeus University)

Abstract: In the mid-eighteenth century Delaware, or Lenape, Indian people were sometimes referred to in diplomatic negotiations between English colonists and Indian peoples as "a nation of women." This presentation looks at changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delawares from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century as they encountered waves of migrating peoples and colonists into their territory along the eastern coast of North America. I discuss the process of writing a gender history by focusing on the possibilities and limits of colonial archives, the need to apply a gender perspective on historiography, and end with suggesting how Delaware experiences and thinking on gender contributes to the development of theory in history.

Discussants:

• Meleisa Ono-George (Modern Records Centre)
• David Lambert (History)

Chair: Laura Schwartz (History)

Co-sponsored by IAS, the Social Theory Centre, the Feminist Theory Reading Group (History) and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

You are warmly invited to attend the final CSWG graduate seminar of Spring term, taking place on Wednesday 9^th March. This is a fantastic opportunity to encounter and discuss research taking place on a range of gender related topics, and a chance to meet and network with researchers in your field in a friendly and stimulating atmosphere.

This week’s speakers:

Bidrea Alnasser (University of Warwick): ‘Issues of representation in narratives about and by Iraqi women’

Charlotte Rachael Proudman (University of Cambridge): ‘A legal double standard: Prohibiting female genital mutilation while tolerating female genital cosmetic surgery’

DATE: Wednesday 9^th March 2016

TIME: 5pm to 6.30pm (followed by a wine reception)

VENUE: S0.08, Social Sciences Building

All are welcome and no registration is required. For more information please go to our webpage, or follow the Centre on Twitter via @CSWGWarwick.

This workshop will include:

3.00 - 4.45: a panel of academics, activists, practitioners and students discussing the issue from different perspectives.

5.00 - 7.30: a screening of The Hunting Ground (2015), a US documentary on the topic (http://www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com/), followed by a Q & A with Amy Ziering, the film's producer.

You are welcome to join us for both, or only one, of these events.

Both events are FREE and OPEN TO ALL, and no registration is required.

An early career workshop to which you are warmly invited.

Further information and how to book can be found here

You are warmly invited to attend the 'Twilight People' Trans* and Faith Symposium. This symposium is to set a platform for the much needed dialogue across religious/spiritual and LGBTQIA+ communities to meet, share experiences, and discuss trans and non binary gender issues in a faith context.

This event is open to all communities. Participation is free of charge. Capacity is limited and this will be a popular event so do book as early as possible - book your place here.

A small number of bursaries to cover UK travel for session presenters are available. Please enquire (click).

Martin O’Brien’s practice focuses on physical endurance and disgust in relation to the fact he suffers from cystic fibrosis. Breathe for Me considers the nature of the regulated chronically ill body. Martin O’Brien re-embodies and takes pleasure in the excessive performance of an already embodied lived experience. Illness is revealed through the body in extremis. This body which is turning against itself relentlessly endures as a form of resistance to illness. Martin is beaten, bruised, cut, and penetrated, exhausted, suffocated, examined and treated in a regime of sufferance in order to survive.

12:30-1pm refreshments
1-2:15pm seminar and discussion

Abstract:

Postsecondary institutions of education, similar to the broader society in which they are embedded, are steeped in – and further – trans* oppression. Additionally, the knowledge produced at these institutions can be seen as inflected with trans* oppression, and as continuing to reify the notion that trans* lives and experiences are abject, abnormal, unintelligible, and otherwise impossible. In this presentation, Dr Nicolazzo builds from the work of Patton (2016), Brayboy (2005), Bernal (2002), Ferguson (2012), and Spade (2015) to propose an epistemology that seeks to “[re]distribute the possibilities, potentialities, and life chances” for trans* people. Dr Nicolazzo will also discuss how the imagining of such a trans* epistemological stance may help educators unlearn the gender binary illogic in which they collude, thereby (re)shaping education as liberatory.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Z Nicolazzo is Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University, US. Z’s book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, which details hir 18-month ethnographic research project alongside trans* university students in the United States, is forthcoming from Stylus Publishing (2016). http://cedu.niu.edu/cahe/about/faculty/z-nicolazzo.shtml

This seminar is free and open to all, but advanced booking is required for catering purposes. You can book your place here.

Research seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Education Studies (CES) and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG), and supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Postgraduate and Early-Career Scholar Workshop: "Rethinking “The Field”: The Politics of Entering, Leaving, and Doing Justice Alongside Marginalized Populations through Fieldwork", with Dr Z Nicolazzo

Conceptions of ‘the field’ for qualitative researchers are both ambiguous and contested. During this workshop, Dr Nicolazzo will work alongside participants to explore the tensions between the practical dimensions of doing research as a practice of creating knowledge, and the affective dimensions of research, which stem from critical qualitative researchers' intrinsic values for relation, connection, friendship, love, advocacy, and equity. Dr Nicolazzo will share insights ze gleaned from hir 18-month critical collaborative ethnographic study with trans* university students, and will engage workshop participants in thinking about how they as researchers make sense of, interact within, and negotiate ‘entering’ and ‘leaving’ the ‘field’, especially in relation to researching alongside marginalized populations. Participants will work with Dr Nicolazzo to think through their own research in an attempt to address some of the challenges that surface throughout the session.

This session is open to all MA and PhD students and early career scholars (across all disciplines, and including colleagues from other universities). Attendance is free and lunch is provided, but you must register in advance here.

The workshop will take place from 10.30 to 12.30, and lunch will be served from 12.30. You are also very welcome to stay on for the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender "(Not Very Far) Away Day", which will take place in the same room immediately after lunch.

If you have any questions about this workshop, please email Dr Emily F. Henderson (E.Henderson@warwick.ac.uk).
 

Biographical information: Dr. Z Nicolazzo is Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University, US. Z gained hir PhD in Student Affairs in Higher Education, with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Miami University in 2015, before taking up the post at NIU. Z’s research agenda is focused on mapping gender across higher education contexts, with particular attention to trans* students, as well as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Z’s book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, which details hir 18-month ethnographic research project alongside trans* university students in the United States, is forthcoming from Stylus Publishing (2016). http://cedu.niu.edu/cahe/about/faculty/z-nicolazzo.shtml

This workshop is co-organised by the Centre for Education Studies and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, with the support of the Institute of Advanced Study.

Are you interested in research and teaching on gender and women? Then join us for the 2016 (Not Very Far) Away Day of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender!

The (Not Very Far) Away Day provides an opportunity for scholars interested in women and gender from across the University of Warwick to meet and find out about each other's research. In previous years we have made posters about our research, bounced ideas about new research agendas off each other, and discussed activities that we would like the Centre to organise. The NVFAD offers a space for informal conversations about research interests that we have in common and ways of developing new research on women and gender. It also provides a forum for forging creative links across departments and energising those of us working on women and gender.

After very successful editions, for example, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, we are delighted to announce that the NVFAD is returning in 2016! It will be taking place on
June 8th, 2016
from 1.00 - 4.30 (including lunch)
in Ramphal R0.03/04

The full detailed programme for the NVFAD will be announced nearer the time, but the event will include a discussion session on the current state and future directions of research and teaching on gender at Warwick, a poster exhibition, a publications fair and a networking lunch.

To register for the NVFAD, click here.

You are warmly invited to the launch of Deborah Lynn Steinberg's latest book Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture (Ashgate/Routledge).

Professor Elizabeth Ettorre (Liverpool University) and Professor Stuart Murray (Carleton University, Canada) will be talking about the book and its significance. Deborah will also say a few words.

Wine, soft drinks and refreshments will be served.

The Twilight People touring exhibition was launched in February 2016 for LGBT History Month at Islington Museum and is now touring the UK. It will be shown in Coventry from May 4th to June 24th in The Pod.

The theme of the Twilight People exhibition is ‘body and ritual’, covering primarily the time period from the 1980s to today. Physical transformation, religious rituals and religious fetish objects (e.g. hairstyle, accessories, head-gear, jewellery, tattoos) are very often important symbols to mark both faith and gender journeys. Twilight People will capture the voices and images of gender-nonconforming people of faith and interpret them in a heritage context.

Exhibition Details:

The Pod
1A Lamb Street,
CV1 4AE
Coventry

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday - 8.30am to 4.30pm. Friday - 8.30am to 4pm.

For more information on The Pod, see: http://www.coventry.gov.uk/thepod

For more information on the exhibition and the "Twilight People" project, see http://www.facebook.com/events/1681451395440386/ and http://www.twilightpeople.com/exhibition-tour-launches-in-coventry/

Tweet #TPexhibition

Free Admission

Crossing gender and postcolonial borders: Academic women on the move. A reflection on the experiences of Brazilian women in Portuguese academia

Wednesday, October 19^th 2016

1.00 – 2.30 pm

S2.84 (Social Sciences Building)

Free and open to all; no registration required

Speaker:

Dr. Thais França (CIES – Lisbon University Institute)

Abstract:

Academic mobility has been presented as a fundamental step in academic career development. Its benefits – transnational networking, knowledge circulation and increase of international publishing – have been largely acclaimed. However, it cannot be disregarded that this phenomenon occurs in a context of the advancement of neoliberal ideas in the academic context. Hence, it is fundamental to analyse the academic through a critical perspective that considers not only its advantages but also its hierarchies and power asymmetries. In order to investigate women’s experience in academic mobility schemes, reflecting on how gender differences shape it, it is important to denounce some of the discrimination and inequalities that are reproduced through academic mobility programs. To accept claims such as “academic women are less mobile than their male colleagues” without considering its causes and its impact on women’s career is to render invisible exclusion dynamics strongly present in academia. Indeed, the different variables and interests present in academic mobility processes demand a complex analysis that goes beyond a single perspective. It is necessary to take in consideration how the various markers of difference interact to shape subjects’ academic mobility experience. The case of Brazilian academics in Portuguese academia is a powerful illustration of how gender, race, nationality and geopolitical hierarchies bound together to legitimate stereotypes and exclusion dynamics.

Chair and Discussant:

Dr. Maria do Mar Pereira (Sociology)

Seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, in collaboration with AMIN: Academic Mobilities and Immobilities Network

Re-inscribing women's roles: tales from the city

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

You are warmly invited to join us for this exciting WORKSHOP FOR PhD STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS:

The shoemaker's kids always go barefoot: The challenges of researching Academia from the inside

Thursday, October 20^th 2016

1.00 – 2.45 pm

E1.02 (Social Sciences Building)

Facilitator:

Dr. Thais França (CIES – Lisbon University Institute)

Aims of the Workshop:

To conduct an academic research implies taking into account many different variables and scenarios, not only its scientific aspects – theories, objectives, methods and methodologies – but also its ethical and political implications and the institutional aspects and constraints involved. Researching academic topics therefore, may be more challenging and complex than it would seem. In this workshop aimed at PhD students and early career scholars, we will discuss those challenges, drawing both on Thais França’s research on the experiences of migrant women academics, and on participants’ own research projects.

TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP – WHICH IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL – CLICK HERE

Bio:

Thais França is from Brazil but currently works in Portugal as a Post-Doc researcher at CIES-IUL, Portugal. She received her PhD in the Sociology of Work at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, an MA in Work Psychology at the University of Bologna, Italy, under the European Erasmus Mundus Master Program “Work, Organizational, and Personal Psychology” and a Bachelor degree in Psychology at the Federal University of Ceará, Brasil.

Her current research project is about gender and scientific mobility in Europa, analyzing, especially, issues relating to sexism and racism in the Academic environment. This research interest emerges from her own personal experience as a Latin American migrant woman – first in Italy and now in the Portuguese academia – and from what she has experienced and heard from other migrant women researchers.

As feminist studies teaches us, on the one hand the separation between researcher and object is unwarranted, and on the other hand there should be no difference between feminism research and activism. To recognize myself as a “Brazilian immigrant woman”; to implicate my biography in my analysis; to demarcate in my writings a situated position; and to assume a political and ideological commitment with social transformation; are some of the characteristics I attempt to include in all of my work.

Workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

The Centre for Education Studies, in association with the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, is pleased to welcome Dr Maria Tsouroufli (University of Wolverhampton) to present:

Doing gendered and classed motherhood: The experiences of academic women in Greece

Feminist scholarship has raised consciousness about the material conditions associated with motherhood and the male-dominated ideology in shaping the social construction of motherhood. Theories of late modernity on the other hand have emphasized liberation from structures and institutions in post-industrial and post-traditional societies, which allow for reflexively creative maternal subjects with endless possibilities and choices. However, the enduring significance of gender and how it intersects with class in the organisation of parenting, domestic, and professional work has been obscured in contemporary post-feminist and neo-liberal contexts. This paper examines how academic women conceptualize, enact and reconfigure motherhood within the patriarchal Greek society, and the classed and gendered strategies they adopt to reconcile ‘good’ motherhood with notions of the ‘good’ doctor/academic professional.

This seminar is co-hosted by the Centre for Education Studies and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

Biography:

Dr Maria Tsouroufli is a Greek-born British scientist with interdisciplinary academic and research experience in education, health and medicine. Her research is at the interface of education, sociology, feminist and organisational studies. Her work in the Sociology of Education has been concerned with the relationship between policy, practice and inequalities, exploring how gender inequalities are connected to professional subjectivities, everyday practices, pedagogy, organisational processes and policy. She joined the Institute of Education, Faculty of Education Health and Well-being at the University of Wolverhampton as a Reader in Education in November 2015.

Women as workers and consumers: cooking, cockpits and conduct.

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

'How Could We Truly Live and Talk Together: Beyond Idealist Dreams and Pseudo-materialist Dictates'

Before intending to live together, it would be advisable to wonder whether we are really alive, and how we could become truly living beings in spite of the cultural tradition and the social and political context in which we are situated. We must also wonder about the language that we speak. Does this language contribute toward our becoming living? Or, when we talk to one another, are we merely subjecting ourselves to common codes which prevent us from expressing ourselves as living beings? Furthermore, the basic structure of our logic favours a subject-object adequacy and not a subject-subject connection. In reality, we still lack a logic of intersubjectivity of which we are particularly in need in our time. Some elements in order to elaborate such logic will be suggested and offer to be discussed.

This event is free to attend and all are welcome. You must register here for a ticket.

This event is supported by the Social Theory Centre and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.

Incorporating the televisual and theoretical: gender identities in flux

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

A cultural exploration: global perspectives of resistance and reflexivity

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

Women in and beyond war: justice, conflict and peacekeeping

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

Gender and the media: articulating experience and facilitating change

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

Families in context: parenting, policies and masculinity

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

This event will bring together colleagues who work on creating, supporting and evaluating submissions, with researchers who have been studying Athena SWAN and other equality and diversity monitoring mechanisms.

Attendance is FREE and lunch and refreshments will be provided - but please register in advance here.

Are you interested in the work of Audre Lorde, or in black, lesbian, feminist theory, activism and literature?

Then join us for a screening of the documentary Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years.

Audre Lorde - the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 documents Audre Lorde's influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change, a decade that brought about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of East and West Germany. This chronicles an untold chapter of Lorde’s life: her empowerment of Afro-German women, as she challenged white women to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways. (Read more about the film here: http://www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com/)

The screening is free and open to all, no reservation required. We will discuss the film after it is screened.

The screening is hosted by the Sociology MA module “Feminist Theory and Epistemology: Debates and Dilemmas”, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.

Public and private vulnerabilities: homelessness, harassment and technology

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

Speakers include Professor Stephanie Barrientos (Manchester), whose research on global value chains and agri-food – including the role of supermarkets – is widely applauded. The event is sponsored by the Global Research Priority on International Development, which has adopted gender as its theme for this year; the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG); the network for Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW); and the Institute of Advanced Study. It focuses on a topic which encompasses several different networks, and crosses the usual divide between global North and global South.

In this workshop, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) and aimed at postgraduate students and emerging researchers, we will explore how to get published in feminist academic journals. We will begin by describing the process of submission and peer review of articles, looking specifically at the distinctive features of those processes within feminist journals. Then, we will identify a set of practical writing and editing tips - what to do and what not to do - which will help participants write richer and stronger articles for feminist journals. The workshop will end with a period of discussion, during which participants can ask questions, clarify their doubts and receive advice on how to choose the feminist journals that best match their area of expertise.

The workshop will be led by Maria do Mar Pereira, Deputy Director of CSWG and co-editor of the journal Feminist Theory.

The workshop is free and open to all PhD students and early career researchers at Warwick.

To participate in the workshop, you must register by using this link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/archive/workshop

CSWG Film Club

You are warmly invited to join us for the inaugural event of the CSWG Film Club, a new partnership between CSWG and the Warwick Arts Centre Cinema.

A special screening of the film “Hidden Figures”

with a post-screening discussion

featuring Prof Akwugo Emejulu (Sociology), Kindy Sandhu (Coventry University and Coventry Women’s Voices), Dr Ajay Chandra (Maths), Ivié Itoje (Law; Co-President of WARSoc – Warwick Anti-Racism Society), and more speakers to be confirmed.

(chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira, Deputy Director of CSWG)

Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race.

This event is open to all, including the general public.

Tickets for the screening cost between £3.50 and £8.00, and can be purchased from the Warwick Arts Centre Box Office in person, or online through the Warwick Arts Centre website.

Gendered life stages: birth, marriage and middle-age

Attendance is FREE and we welcome students and staff at all levels and from any discipline.

In R1.15, 5pm to 6.30pm followed by a wine reception.

See our Graduate Seminar page for details of this week's speakers.

The Mead Gallery is currently showing Room, a free exhibition of installations, sculptures and photographs by international women artists, which variously explore ideas around architecture and the domestic environment – historically perceived as a female sphere of activity. The featured artists include Nan Goldin, Beverly Buchanan, Heidi Bucher, Louise Bourgeois, Klara Lidén, Hilary Lloyd, Sarah Lucas, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Rachel Feinstein, Joanna Piotrowska, Penny Slinger, Francesca Woodman, Andra Ursuta, Marianne Vitale and Andrea Zittel.

To celebrate the exhibition, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender is hosting a roundtable discussion on feminist art approaches to architecture and the domestic environment. Speakers include:

• Rachel Hurdley (Cardiff University)
• Yara Richter (Warwick)
• Cath Lambert (Warwick)
• Laura Lord (exhibition curator, Sadie Coles HQ)
• chair: Maria do Mar Pereira (Warwick)

Refreshments will be provided.

The roundtable is free but places are limited and must be booked in advance. You can book a ticket by visiting the Arts Centre Box Office, or calling the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

The roundtable will be preceded by a free tour of the exhibition led by Laura Lord, the curator. Tickets for this are also limited and can be booked in advance through the Box Office.

Feminist scholars have been writing about the politics of knowledge production and the contested status of feminist knowledge for a very long time. It is, arguably, one of the oldest topics of debate and activism amongst feminists and other critical scholars. But those old questions remain open and topical, especially at a time of both intense change – of the nature of higher education, the status of expert knowledge, or the conditions of academic labour – and flagrant continuities (of sexism, racism and other structural inequalities within and beyond academia).

This symposium brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who are empirically examining the relationship between power, knowledge and feminism from very different perspectives and across different contexts. It is being organised to celebrate the publication of Maria do Mar Pereira’s new book Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: an Ethnography of Academia, which will be launched at the event.

The symposium will feature talks by:

• · Dr Emily F. Henderson (Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick)

Emily will share insights from her ethnographic research on gender knowledge production at feminist academic conferences in the UK, India and the US

• · Dr Lata Narayanaswamy (School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds)

Lata will reflect on the relations between power, knowledge and feminism in the work of knowledge brokers committed to promoting women’s empowerment, drawing on empirical work undertaken in India and the UK

• · Dr Lena Wånggren (Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh)

Lena will discuss the politics of contemporary academic labour from a feminist perspective

• · Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (Department of Sociology and Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick)

Maria do Mar will talk about the negotiation of the status of feminist scholarship in the neoliberal universities, drawing on her ethnography of academia in Portugal

The symposium will be opened by Prof Nickie Charles (Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick) and chaired by Dr Cath Lambert (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick).

This event is free and open to all, and refreshments will be provided.

We ask that participants book in advance to make sure we order the right amount of food and drink. You can book HERE.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS DISCUSSION AND CELEBRATION!

This symposium is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the “Inequalities and Social Change” Research Cluster in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

Directions:

A0.23 is located in the Social Sciences building. Click here for a floorplan showing the exact location of the room – look for the red arrows at the bottom of the image!

For directions to the Social Sciences building and the University of Warwick, click here

Following a multi-generational family of the Gullah community – descendants of West African slaves who have preserved and retained many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – the film explores the community's struggle to maintain their cultural heritage. As the first wide release by a Black woman filmmaker, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust was met with critical acclaim and rapturous audience response.

For those who know their pop culture, Daughters of the Dust was the inspiration for Beyonce’s visual album, Lemonade.

https://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/?media_view=video 

After the film, join us for a panel discussion featuring Meleisa Ono-George, Kathryn Medien and Akwugo Emejulu.

· Rosie Walters (University of Bristol) - "Connecting the Dots?: Young women’s participation in the UN Foundation’s Girl Up programme."

What 'state' are we in? Re-visiting the problem of the state in gender and sexuality thinking and politics

a talk by Sonia Corrêa (Sexuality Policy Watch; LSE - Department of Gender Studies)

(discussant: Liz Ablett, University of Warwick)

Abstract:

Over the course of the last twenty years or so, multiple strands of genders and sexualities organizing and mobilizing, both North and South of the Equator, have moved from critical and distanced positionality in relation to the state towards engagement with the law, human rights, and biopolitical apparatuses and devices (in particular biomedicine). This displacement is not trivial as it locates its actors, subjects and substance of this politics in the realms of norm codification and power deployment and has created multilayered tensions and rifts both within sexual politics and at cross roads of theorizing and action. Questions have been and continued to be raised about if and how transformative politics of genders and sexualities can or not engage ‘the state’.

Although these questions are far from new, they gain new contours, ramifications and complications under current conditions of both national and global conjunctures characterized by right wing populist revivals (sometimes in fascist manifestations), the prevalence of a cynical electoral and parliamentarian politics and authoritarian entrenchment of sovereignties. Under these conditions, if the politics of genders and sexualities are indeed committed to intersectionality the global problem of states being shrunk to their managerial and police functions (in some cases imperialist policing) and stripped of its enabling infra structural role can be hardly circumvented.

The lecture will chart past and present debates around engaging the state, through the revisiting of authors within and outside gender and sexuality field. In doing so it will recapture and highlight streams of Latin American theorizing on the ‘the state as a problem” that have not travelled much, particularly in what concerns the religious imprints in the tutelary features of state formation. While mapping the theoretical underpinnings of the debate it will also bring to the discussion empirical illustrations of the multilayered angles of gender and sexuality claims of juridical belonging and social inclusion, including the contentions with the religious and some of their paradoxical effects. These excursions do not aim to exhaust the questions previously raised, but they might add new interrogations to this area of inquiry.

Speaker Bio:

Since the late 1970´s Sonia Corrêa has been involved in research and advocacy activities related to gender equality, health and sexuality. Sonia co-chairs Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. She is currently a Visiting Leverhulme Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE.

The seminar will chaired by Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (Department of Sociology, and Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick).

This event is free and open to all, and refreshments will be provided.

We ask that participants book in advance to make sure we order the right amount of food and drink. You can book here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/archive/registration

This symposium celebrates the launch of 3 new books examining, from feminist and intersectional perspectives, contemporary politics of community, solidarity and resistance. The authors of the three books will speak at the event, and will explore the implications of each of their books in relation to this overall theme. The symposium will feature:

• Cynthia Cockburn (City University London and University of Warwick), author of Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and Asylum (2017, Pluto)
• Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick) and Leah Bassel (University of Leicester), authors of Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (2017, Policy Press)
• Khursheed Wadia (University of Warwick), co-author of Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies (2017, Routledge)

The symposium will be chaired by Prof Nickie Charles (Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick).

This event is free and open to all, and lunch will be provided.

This symposium is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the “Inequalities and Social Change” Research Cluster in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

Come and celebrate the new year with CSWG members old and new.

There will be hot food and drinks!

Please register in advance here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/archive/registration

A lecture by Dr Siggie Vertommen (KCL)

All welcome.

You are warmly invited to join us for the next event of the CSWG Film Club, a new partnership between CSWG and the Warwick Arts Centre Cinema.

A special screening of the film “In Between” (2016)

with a post-screening discussion featuring guest speakers and students and staff at Warwick, and chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira, Deputy Director of CSWG

In Between is a 2016 film directed by Maysaloun Hamoud, about three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv, and trying to find a balance between traditional and modern culture, caught between the lives they’re aspiring to lead and societal restrictions. Layla is a criminal defence lawyer originally from Nazareth, whose family is secular Muslim, Nour is a religious Muslim woman studying computer science at Tel Aviv University and Salma is a lesbian DJ from a Christian family.

https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/2018/in-between-/

This event is open to all, including the general public.

Tickets for the screening cost between £3.50 and £9.00, and can be purchased from the Warwick Arts Centre Box Office in person, or online through the Warwick Arts Centre website.

We may have free tickets available to give away to members of CSWG, Sociology students and staff, and students taking the IATL MA module “Ways of Knowing”. If you’d like to be considered for a free ticket, please sign up here.

Prof Andrei Markovits is at Warwick as a Visiting Fellow in IAS. In this seminar he will talk about the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Association Football on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas the women in North America entered a field that was virtually open for them since men busily covered the playing fields and cultural space of the hegemonic team sports of baseball, football (American and Canadian), basketball and ice hockey; their European counterparts were forced to contest what has arguably been the most male-dominated space in European public life throughout much of the 20th century. Both of these roads harbored immense obstacles. Both entailed challenges of their own that these pioneering women had to overcome. However, spurred by the massively important and popular World Cup tournaments, the last three decades have led to a rapprochement of developments on both sides of the Atlantic by catapulting women's soccer onto hitherto unexpected, maybe even unimaginable heights.

He has written a book on the subject.

Andy is the Karl W Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies and an Arthur F Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

All are welcome to this seminar. Drinks and nibbles will be available afterwards. No registration necessary.

Speaker: Prof. Indu Agnihotri, CWDS, New Delhi

The recent surge in of horrific incidences of violence against women and girls in India have firmly refocused attention towards the place of women in the Indian society especially in the wider context of the consolidation of the Hindu-nationalist electoral and cultural politics across the country. The women’s movement in India has been at the forefront of protests against gender based violence and women’s rights at home, in public spaces and at work places. The Pinjra Tod campaign, the Pink Chaddi campaign, and host of new campaigns have deployed social media tools to carry forward the emancipatory traditions of the Women’ movement. The recent publication of Raya Sarkar’s list of sexual predators in Indian academia on the lines of the #Metoo movement in the West has highlighted the internal dilemmas and contradictions within the contemporary women’s movement. It can be said that with the wider socio-political onslaught of Hindu nationalist politics and the emergence of new voices, styles and strategies of mobilization the women’s movement in India finds itself in an interesting cross-road in the contemporary times.

Prof. Indu Agnihotri’s talk will take stock of the contemporary women’s movement in India discussing a wide range of issues related the the changing socio-political milieu within and outside the movement.

About the speaker:

Prof. Indu Agnihotri is the Director of Center for Women and Development Studies. She is interested in the area of Women’s Movement, Resistance and Change in India.

The event is free to attend. Tea and light refreshments will be provided.

Supported by: GRP International Development, Another India and CSWG

Ethnography, Gifts, and Relations: Or The (Un)Desired Gender Identities of Baking Your Way through Fieldwork

Pedro Monteiro (University of Warwick)

Abstract:

The social sciences, especially those studies with an interactionist stamp, can be characterized as a study of social relations; and in ethnography, we find ourselves investigating social relations through relations. While rapport and the challenges involved in the ethnographic encounter have been widely discussed, the theme of gifts from/to informants is still a taboo. In this presentation, I reflect on my experience in conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a large industrial organization and the chain of gifts — especially food offers — shared with informants. I explore how these material-effective exchanges shaped my (gender) identity and my access to specific individuals and groups in the organization. I argue that gift exchanges offer a ‘concrete’ basis to explore current debates in (feminist) ethnography about rapport and fieldwork relations thus enabling us to re-think the dichotomy between collaborative and exploitative research.

Speaker Bio:

Pedro Monteiro is an Early Career Fellow at Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study and a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School. He is an ethnographer of work and organizations with a particular interest in classic themes in management and organization studies. In 2018, he received the Academy of Management's Louis Pondy Award for Best Dissertation Paper.
 

The seminar will be chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira (Department of Sociology, and Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick).

This event is free and open to all, and refreshments will be provided. Pedro will generously offer some of his own (amazing!) baking, to enact and demonstrate the real-life baking exchanges he will describe in the paper. An opportunity not to be missed!

Join us for our CSWG Annual Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Studies. The Annual Lecture will feature the renowned feminist scholar, Professor Cynthia Enloe, discussing one of the key contemporary movements of transnational feminist activism, #MeToo.

"What are the International Politics of #MeToo?"

Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)

Abstract:

#MeToo is treated chiefly as a local gendered phenomena, country by country, industry by industry. What do we who are seeking to make sense of diverse international politics have to learn from taking seriously #MeToo about the ways in which local dynamics shape and reshape international power? What does #MeToo tell us about the relevance of misogyny to international politics?

This event is free and open to all (no registration required), and will be followed by a wine reception.

Useful Information

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Maths and Stats building, which appears at the top of the map.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Nickie Charles (Nickie.Charles@warwick.ac.uk).

As part of a Visiting Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Study, Luce Irigaray--renowned philosopher, linguist, psychologist, psychoanalyst--will present a public lecture entitled "How to Give Birth to a New Human Being."

Widely recognized as one of the key influential thinkers of our times, Irigaray's work focuses on the development of a culture of sexuate and cultural difference--particularly through the construction of a feminine subjectivity--something she explores in a range of forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic. The author of over thirty books translated into numerous languages, including Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), her most recent book To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being (2017) proposes nothing less than a new conception of being as well as a means to ensure its individual and relational development since birth.

This event is free and open to all (no registration required) and will be followed by a wine reception and book signing (limited books will be available for cash purchase at the event). Please circulate in your networks!

Useful Information:

• For directions to the University of Warwick please click here
• The lecture will take place in The Oculus, Room 0.04. You can find an interactive campus map here
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Stephen Seely (s.seely@warwick.ac.uk)

This event is sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study, the Department of Sociology, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the "Connecting Cultures" Global Research Priority at University of Warwick.

This symposium brings together academics, activists and artists from a range of disciplines to discuss the relationship between feminism, queer and neoliberalism. We will consider how feminism and queer have resisted neoliberalism, and how feminism and queer have been complicit with it, but we also want to go beyond that conventional binary framing and engage with the many complexities of that dynamic relationship. The symposium will feature panels on feminism as a brand/commodity, on feminism within/against neoliberalism in international development and social movements, and on activism and art.

This event is free and open to all, but participants must book in advance. You can book here.

If you have any questions, please email Maria do Mar Pereira on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk.

The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know (by emailing Maria do Mar Pereira on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk or calling Amy Burdis on 02476524771) so we can support your full participation.

This symposium is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the “Inequalities and Social Change” Research Cluster in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

Speaker: Prof Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS)

Discussant: Dr Nicola Pratt (Warwick)

Event Details:

This event is free and open to all (no registration required), and will be followed by a reception.

 Abstract:

The talk will chart my trajectories and dilemmas as a feminist activist/academic to research, write and talk about gender based violence (GBV) with reference in to the Middle East. More specifically I will be drawing on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey as well as Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti racist/anti-Islamophobic politics.

The political and academic aim to challenge essentialised ideas of Middle Eastern exceptionalism and conflated notions of Muslim, Arab/Middle Eastern culture has clearly been an on-going and familiar motivation for many academics/activists researching and writing on women and gender issues. Maybe more controversially I will reflect on my increasing discomfort with narratives about GBV that focus solely on the impact of external factors, mainly framed with reference to imperialism and neo-liberalism , instead of recognising not simply complicity but pro-active involvement of various local and regional actors. Drawing on my previous work on Iraq, and my more recent work on the Kurdish women's movement and queer feminist activism in Lebanon, I will share the dilemmas and tensions of involved in a transnational feminist knowledge production and activism.

Speaker Bio:

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGS), SOAS University of London. She is currently chair of CGS but will leave SOAS to take up a new position in anthropology with reference to the Middle East at Brown University in January. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and peace; as well as art & cultural studies; mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (Zed Books, 2009, co-edited with Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); New Approaches to Migration (ed., Routledge, 2002, with Khalid Koser); Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her co-edited book with Deborah al-Najjar entitled We are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse University Press) won the 2014 Arab-American book prize for non-fiction. Her more recent research and publications focus on the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the Kurdish women’s movement.

Professor Al-Ali was President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) from 2009-2011. She has been a member of the Feminist Review Collective, and is on the editorial board of Kohl: a journal of body and gender research. She was involved in several projects with Iraqi academics and women’s rights activists with the aim to facilitate the introduction of women and gender studies and increase evidence-based research capacity in Iraq.

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Zeeman (Maths and Stats building), which appears at the top of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are very welcome, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)

You are warmly invited to join us for another session of the CSWG Film Club, co-organised by CSWG and Yasmina Maiga (Sociology).

Film: “Skate Kitchen” (2018), including a post-screening discussion

Wednesday, November 28^th

at 6.00 in S0.19

For those of you that aren’t familiar with skate culture and even for those who are or think they are, the link between gender and skateboarding can seem a little farfetched. Nonetheless, ever since its creation, this anti-field sport has proved to be a powerful means of political activism, allowing women to bring feminism from the lecture halls to the streets in new and powerful ways.

Skate Kitchen focuses precisely on the connections between skateboarding, subcultures, gender, feminism and race. Directed by Crystal Moselle, it is a coming-of-age movie following the life of a young girl and her fellow skateboarders in the depths of New York City’s underground scene. For the trailer, click here: https://www.skatekitchenfilm.com/

The screening of the film will be followed by a post-show discussion featuring:

• Dr Emma Beckett (Sociology)
• Yasmina Maiga (Sociology)
• Pablo Anto (Warwick Skate Society)
• Chair: Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (Sociology)

This event is free and open to all, including the general public.

“Postethnic Activism in the Nordic Region - From Antiracist Feminism to Urban Mobilisation in Racialised Areas”

Suvi Keskinen (University of Helsinki)

Abstract:
The presentation discusses the new wave of activism in Sweden, Denmark and Finland that is framed around being racialised as other/non-white by the surrounding society rather than on ethnic group membership. It examines the understandings of the 'common' and the intersections of gender, race and class in these notions, as well as the dilemmas of alliance-building.

Speaker Bio:
Suvi Keskinen is Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Professor at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki, Finland. For more on Suvi’s work, see https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/suvikesk 

The seminar will be chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira.

This event is free and open to all. You do not have to register in advance.
We will NOT provide refreshments, but you’re more than welcome to bring your lunch and eat it at the seminar!

Please join us for this talk, organised by CSWG and the Department of Sociology

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Social Sciences building, which appears at the centre of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk).

How are trans and intersex lives defined, managed and contested in healthcare, education, and community settings?

This event will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss current research, practice and debates, with talks drawing on a range of social, clinical, and historical perspectives. It has been organised to celebrate the publication of Ruth Pearce’s new book, Understanding Trans Health.

The event will centre the insights of trans and intersex activists, researchers and practitioners, and include plenty of time for questions and discussion.

The symposium will feature talks by:

• Dr Kate Nambiar: Kate is a medical doctor who works at Clinic T, a trans-specific sexual health centre based in Brighton. She will be presenting a talk entitled: By us, for us: Trans led healthcare in sexual health and beyond
• Dr David Griffiths: David is an interdisciplinary researcher based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. He will be talking about intersex politics in the UK during the 1960s/70s, and exploring intersections with developments in trans and gay rights and healthcare as well as the impact on the situation today.
• Dr Alfrancio Dias: Alfrancio is a researcher based in the Department of Education of the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil). He will discuss his work on the experiences of trans students in universities in Brazil.
• and our keynote speaker, Dr Ruth Pearce, based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. The title of Ruth’s talk will be The Gender Experts: Clinical Discourse and Becoming Trans.

This event is free and open to all, and refreshments will be provided.

We ask that participants book in advance to make sure we order the right amount of food and drink. You can book here.

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Social Sciences building, which appears at the centre of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible, gender-neutral toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk).

This symposium is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and the “Inequalities and Social Change” Research Cluster in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

CSWG Lunchtime Seminar:
“The Emotional Politics of Feminist Coalition: Learning to Listen by Provincializing the Generalised Feminist Subject”
Lisa Kalayji (University of Edinburgh)

Abstract:
Historical moments of heavy socio-political upheaval shake up the social bonds and identity categories through which collective agitation for change is mobilised (Hall, 1966), and feminists presently find ourselves at just such an electrified conjuncture. Far-right politics are in ascendancy around the globe, grassroots resistance is thriving, and emergent political consciousnesses are being articulated into and out of existence through roiling local struggles. The time is both ripe and urgent for feminists to pursue stronger solidarities, more efficacious political consciousness, and greater accountability to one another. In this talk, I will examine the emotionality of inter-feminist relationships, focusing particularly on schisms around cissexism and racism. Drawing upon my historical research on radical feminism in Britain in the 1980s, I trace the historical emergence and sedimentation of emotionalised discourses of inclusion and exclusion in radical feminism’s emotion culture. Placing this historical work in conversation with reflections on efforts to understand my own experiences of patriarchal violence, I elaborate the necessity of interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking as preconditions for meaningful feminist dialogue. I argue that cis, white feminists’ defensive and projective responses to narrations of the lived realities of trans women and women of colour are rooted in frustrated and failed efforts to understand our own experiences through the analytic lens of a generalised feminist subject and the inclusions and exclusions upon which it relies. Such an approach is inadequate to explain the lives of even the most privileged women, inevitably forestalling the authentic listening necessary for fruitful and accountable inter-feminist relationships. By using an interdisciplinary analytic toolkit and an intersectional lens, the specificity of all gendered oppressions is illuminated, the co-constitution of all subject positions of privilege and oppression is foregrounded, and greater space is thereby forged for deeper and more lasting feminist coalitions.

Speaker Bio:
Lisa Kalayji is a feminist sociologist interested in the cultural politics of emotion and affect. Her doctoral research explored the emotion culture of radical feminism in Britain in the 1980s, and she is currently doing work on decolonising emotion and affect theories and on the role of emotion in feminist teaching and learning.

The seminar will be chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira, and Demet Gulcicek will act as a discussant.

This event is free and open to all, and lunch will be provided.
We ask that participants book in advance to make sure we order the right amount of food and drink. You can book here.

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Social Sciences building, which appears at the centre of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible, gender-neutral toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk)

Lunchtime Seminar
co-organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences Athena Working Group and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

Discussion of the article
“Moderate feminism within or against the neoliberal university? The example of Athena SWAN”
featuring the authors, Ruth Pearce (University of Leeds) and Charikleia Tzanakou (University of Warwick – TBC)

At this lunchtime seminar, we will be discussing a recently published article by two current and former Warwick colleagues, offering a critical and empirical analysis of Athena SWAN. Attendees will be asked to read, or skim through, the article beforehand, and the session time will be dedicated to discussing the findings, and the questions they raise, with the authors of the article and other colleagues from a range of Faculties involved in Athena Swan.

The article can be downloaded for free here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwao.12336
(If you’re having difficulties accessing the article, please email m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)

We welcome all academic and administrative colleagues from all Faculties and Services throughout the University, and hope you will enjoy this chance to debate important and topical questions about Athena SWAN, whether you’re very familiar with it, or just becoming acquainted with it.

This event is free and open to all, and lunch will be provided.
We ask that participants book in advance to make sure we order the right amount of food and drink. You can book here.

Useful Information:

• The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible, gender-neutral toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children. To discuss this, please contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk)
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk)

“The Politics of Cultural Work: Inequality, Entrepreneurialism and Precarity”
Christina Scharff (King’s College London)

Abstract:
Work in the cultural and creative industries is often described as fulfilling and deeply satisfying, but research has demonstrated that it’s also precarious and marked by ongoing inequalities along the lines of gender, race, and class. This presentation will draw on research on the classical music profession in Berlin and London to discuss and problematise three features of contemporary, creative labour: 1) the underpinning entrepreneurial work ethos, 2) ongoing inequalities, 3) and precariousness. In focusing on these dynamics, special attention will be paid to the dimensions of gender and subjectivity.

Speaker Bio:
Christina Scharff is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her research interests are in gender, media, and culture with a focus on engagements with feminism and the politics of creative work. Christina is author of Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World (Ashgate, 2012) and, most recently, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession (Routledge, 2018). She co-edited (with Rosalind Gill) the books New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism (with Ana Sofia Elias and Rosalind Gill) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); and Digital Feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures (with Carrie Smith-Prei and Maria Stehle).

This event is free and open to all, with no advance registration required. It will be followed by a reception.

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Ramphal building, which appears at the centre of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible, gender-neutral toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions or need special assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk)

This workshop will bring staff and students together to reflect on how we might rethink and redo feminist pedagogy in the present, in light of old dilemmas and new challenges, including the working/studying conditions of the neoliberal university, changing student activist cultures, an epidemic of mental health issues among staff and students, or calls for a more intersectional, liberated curriculum.

It features the following speakers (in alphabetical order):

Janine Francois (University of Bedfordshire): Moving from Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces: How ‘Intersectionality’ can Facilitate Difficult Conversation within Teaching and Learning

Radhika Govinda (University of Edinburgh): 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall..." The Promise and Perils of Decolonising Feminist Classrooms

Awino Okech (SOAS): Reflections on Inclusive Pedagogy

Nicola Rivers (University of Gloucestershire): Resisting Resilience: The Role of Vulnerability in the Neoliberal Academy

This event is free and open to all, including staff, students (of all levels) and visitors from outside the University of Warwick.

All participants must book in advance. You can book here.

You are welcome to drop in throughout the afternoon, and attend only part of the event.

Useful Information:

• For information on getting to the University of Warwick, see here.
• You can find a map of campus here. The lecture will take place in the Library building, which appears at the centre of the map.
• The venue is wheelchair accessible and has accessible, gender-neutral toilets nearby. If you face other access barriers or require more detailed accessibility information, please let us know so we can support your full participation.
• We are unfortunately not able to offer childcare for this event, but babies and children are fully and warmly welcomed, and we will do our best to provide any amenities and adjustments necessary to support colleagues bringing babies or children.
• If you have any questions, need special assistance or want to discuss adjustments we can make for babies and children, please do not hesitate to contact Laura Elwyn (L.Elwyn@warwick.ac.uk)

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure to warmly invite you to attend a talk by an internationally renowned feminist criminologist: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Her paper is entitled: ‘Women in conflict with the law and the criminal justice dance’. The talk is organised by Professor Azrini Wahidin and the Criminal Justice Centre, Co-directors: Dr Ana Aliverti and Professor Vanessa Munroe.

Date: 29th May. Room: S2:09. Lunch 12.30

The research seminar will start at 1pm and last for an hour -preceded by a buffet lunch at 12.30. The seminar format is quite informal, structured around a 30 minutes presentation and the remaining time for questions. The seminar will be held at Faculty of Social Science, in the Law School.

‘Women in conflict with the law and the criminal justice dance’

This seminar will focus on the rather erratic developments in regard to criminal justice policy concerning women over the years, making particular note of steps forwards and backwards and what is now needed for policy and practice development. The seminar will briefly highlight what we know about 'what works' with women, but also what else we need to know in order to make advances in thinking and practice.

I look forward to seeing you there,

Professor Azrini Wahidin

Loraine Gelsthorpe was born in North Nottinghamshire, England, although she spent some early years of her life in Germany (her mother was German).

Loraine is Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and has worked in the Institute since 1994. She had studied at Sussex University to begin with, followed by training and then working as a social worker for a three-year period. What was intended as a one year stay at the Institute of Criminology to study for the M.Phil in Criminology turned into four and a half years when she was persuaded to do a PhD as well, relinquishing the opportunity to serve as a probation officer in Bristol. Post-doctoral appointments at Lancaster University, Bangor University and then the LSE then took her into London to study social work and police decision-making in regard to young offenders, five different prisons to study prisoners’ experiences of different prison regimes in England, and then into different probation areas to look at race and gender issues in pre-sentence reports (once called social inquiry reports).

Loraine has wide ranging interests: criminal justice decision-making and sentencing, women, crime and criminal justice, policy developments relating to women, and ‘what works’ with women, and more generally community penalties, and the links between criminal justice and social justice. She is currently doing research on deaths under community supervision, and on a community housing and support project for women leaving prison. Loraine is a member of the Government’s HM Inspectorate of Probation Advisory Committee, and a Fellow of the Probation Institute in England and Wales. She is also a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Research Advisory Committee, and a member of the 2021 REF sub-committee: Social Policy & Social Work. Loraine is also a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP registered and accredited).

Loraine has an extensive publications list, including chapters in successive Oxford Handbooks of Criminology, and the Routledge Handbook of European Criminology. Her most recent book is: Research Ethics in Criminology edited by M. Cowburn, L. Gelsthorpe & A. Wahidin, A. (Eds) (2017) (London: Routledge). See also: Gelsthorpe, L. (2018) ‘After Corston: community, change, and challenges’ in L. Moore, P. Scraton and A. Wahidin (eds) Women’s Imprisonment and the case for abolition. Critical Reflections on Corston ten years on. (Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge) and Gelsthorpe, L. and Russell, J. (2018) ‘Women and Penal Reform: Two steps forwards, three steps backwards?’ Political Quarterly, 89, 2, pp 227-236.

As part of Prof. Mary Hawkesworth's visit to Warwick (jointly organised by PAIS, Sociology and CSWG, and funded by the IAS) we are organising a series of events, including this mentoring and networking session for feminist social scientists.

Colleagues are warmly welcomed to attend this event. It is open to PhD students, early career researchers (including teaching fellows and research assistants) and assistant and associate professors. The event will be chaired by Prof. Akwugo Emejulu (Sociology).

As part of Prof. Mary Hawkesworth's visit to Warwick (jointly organised by PAIS, Sociology and CSWG, and funded by the IAS) we are organising a series of events, including this public lecture.

The talk will consider manifold ways that the state directly and indirectly engages in violence against women, LGBT and racial minorities - themes developed in Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings, which will be published by Polity (U.K) in January. This lecture will be chaired by Prof. Shirin Rai (PAIS).

As part of Prof. Mary Hawkesworth's visit to Warwick (jointly organised by PAIS, Sociology and CSWG, and funded by the IAS) we are organising a series of events, including this workshop.

Professor Hawkesworth’s talk will draw on years of experience as an Editor for Signs and will address the importance of publishing in a publish or perish climate. Signs publishes path-breaking articles, review essays, comparative perspectives, and retrospectives of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and sexuality.

This session is open to PhD students, early career researchers (including teaching fellows and research assistants) and assistant and associate professors. Do come along and join us for an engaging discussion. The event will be chaired by Prof Azrini Wahidin (Sociology).

Our second seminar of the academic year will be on the theme "Medicine and Health". We will have two amazing presentations by:

Gemma Williams (Birmingham City) - ‘Chronic Health and Menstrual Equity’.

Sara Bamdad (Warwick) - 'Negotiated numbers: communication of uncertainty and risk in the everyday practice of reproductive technologies in Iran’.
No registration required and all welcome! Refreshments will be served.

Ailbhe Smyth is a long-time feminist, lesbian, socialist activist. She was the founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD (University College Dublin) in 1990, and has written about feminism, politics and culture mainly in Ireland. Ailbhe left academia in the mid-2000s to focus on working with women’s community organisations and in social movement politics. She has been involved in many campaigns and was on the Strategic Executive of the victorious same-sex marriage campaign in 2015. She has been fighting for women’s right to choose for over 35 years, and was Co-Director of the Together for Yes national referendum campaign which removed the near-total ban on abortion from the Irish Constitution with a majority of 66% in 2018. She convenes the Coalition to Repeal the 8^thAmendment, and is a regular contributor to media and national debate in Ireland. She was included on the Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential people in 2019.

Everyone is welcome to this event. Lunch will be provided and registration is required for catering purposes. Please register for the event here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/gender/archive/registration

Our first session of the spring term will be on the topic of "Storytelling and Poetry". Presentations by:

• Ruth Kelly - Red Riding Hood and Women's Rights in Ireland and Uganda
• Iona Murphy - Disordered Eating and Domesticity: The Mirroring of Anorexia Nervosa in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

Everyone is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served!

A talk presented by Professor Meltem Ahiska, Professor in the Sociology Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Professor Ahiska has research interests in the areas of Orientalism/Occidentalism, critical theory, social memory and gender and has published widely on these topics. Her talk focuses on violence against women in Turkey and draws on a chapter that she contributed to 'Vulnerability in Resistance', a book edited by Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay (2016) and published by Duke University Press. The book and Prof Ahiska's chapter 'offer a feminist account of political agency by exploring ... aesthetic and erotic interventions into public space that mobilise memory and expose forms of power' (https://www.dukeupress.edu/vulnerability-in-resistance).

All are welcome. No registration is needed.

This important workshop will be led by Dr Tiffany Page, a founder member of the 1752 group and Lecturer in Sociology at Cambridge University. The 1752 group is a research and lobby organisation which works to end sexual misconduct in Higher Education. The workshop will explore strategies to address staff sexual misconduct and how we can develop research, responses and strategies to change our teaching and research environments for the better.

The event is organised in collaboration with the University's Student Discipline and Resolution Team and will include an overview of provision for students at Warwick.

The Centre for Studies in Women and Gender are excited to announce its fifth graduate seminar session 'Queer relationships' on Wednesday 29th January 2020, 3-5 pm, S.0.09 (Social Sciences)

Refreshments will be served. No registration is required.

All students and staff are welcolme!

Dr. Alev Özkazanç, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Alev is a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford where she is pursuing research on anti-gender politics in Europe and Turkey with a particular focus on gender violence in authoritarian-populist regimes. She is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at Ankara University. Her published books are: The New Right and After: Writings in Political Sociology (2007), Neoliberal Appearances: Citizenship, Crime and Education (2011), Sexuality, Violence and Law (2013), Feminism and Queer Theory (2015). She has been on the editorial boards of academic journals such as Mürekkep, Toplum ve Bilim and on the supervisory committees for Fe Journal: Feminist Critique, KAOS Q+ Queer Studies, Vira Verita: Interdisciplinary Encounters, and Feminist Tahayyül.

Writing articles may be the last thing you feel able or keen to do at the moment, but if you would like insight and advice on the process of publishing in international feminist journals, then join us for this workshop, aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers. We will discuss the process of submission and peer review of articles, and how it might be affected by Covid19. We will share a set of practical writing and editing tips - what to do and what not to do. There will also be time for debate, during which you can share experiences of academic publishing, ask questions doubts and get advice.

This event is being hosted by CSWG through Zoom, as part of the conference "Caring in Uncaring Times", organised by Atgender and Middlesex University. To receive the Zoom links to join this event, please contact Dr Maria do Mar Pereira on M.D.M.Pereira@warwick.ac.uk.

“Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions

An opportunity to connect and discuss

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us in a number of different ways, from our emotional and mental wellbeing to productivity and how we do research. The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) is launching bi-weekly “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions to informally connect and discuss issues that are affecting our community in this uncertain time.

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

We welcome all members of our CSWG community to these sessions. We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at the moment, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or while doing something else.

Wednesday 3^rd June: Fieldwork and Funding

This session is a space for discussion on the impact of lockdown on current research and fieldwork, and on how we might conceptualise and envisage future funding applications. We will discuss the challenges we are facing in our respective projects and share strategies going forward.

Session lead: Dr Rachel O'Neill, Wellcome Fellow in the Department of Sociology whose research centres on questions of gender, subjectivity, culture and inequality.

“Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions

An opportunity to connect and discuss

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us in a number of different ways, from our emotional and mental wellbeing to productivity and how we do research. The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) is launching bi-weekly “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions to informally connect and discuss issues that are affecting our community in this uncertain time.

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

We welcome all members of our CSWG community to these sessions. We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at the moment, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or while doing something else.

Wednesday 17^th June: Wellbeing, Emotion, and Mental Health

One of the most pressing issues that many of us will be facing is managing our wellbeing and mental health. Our normal strategies and wellbeing practices may be unavailable, and in these uncertain times stressors may be more impactful. Here we aim to discuss how these experiences are shaping our experiences of teaching, studying, researching and working, and to share strategies for wellbeing.

Session lead: Dr Rumana Hashem, an activist-academic, a sociologist and a feminist researcher, affiliated with the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London.

CSWG invites you to join a round-table seminar on gendered inequalities under Covid-19, covering a range of topics including the uneven and unequal effects of Covid-19 on different groups of women, violence, household inequalities in lockdown, and the links between Covid-19 and other threats to the rights of LGBT people and BAME women. We will be hearing from Dr Ruth Pearce, Dr Kindy Sandhu, Dr Emma Beckett, and Dr Katherine Twamley (bios below), and inviting discussion on how to practice feminist solidarity as we remain in, and gradually emerge from, lockdown.

The event will take place via Zoom. The link and password will be circulated through the CSWG mailing list on the day, so do keep an eye out for this. We ask that you do not share this link beyond the CSWG mailing list for safety, please.

Speakers:

Dr Ruth Pearce is Research Coordinator for the Trans Learning Partnership, and a visiting researcher at the Universities of Surrey and Leeds. Her work explores issues of inequality, marginalisation, power and political struggle. She will explain how trans communities are disproportionately affected by Covid-19, and explore why governments in Europe and North America have chosen this moment to propose anti-trans legislation.

Dr Kindy Sandhu started her professional life as a software engineer working on real time telecommunications systems, rising to senior management. She has worked in the public and charity sectors too; including VAWG, education and housing. Kindy is a feminist activist, trade unionist and campaigner in the areas of anti-racism, and gender equality. She is a Labour and Co-operative councillor in Coventry. Kindy authored “Layers of Inequality”, which was an intersectional study of the impact of the spending cuts on BAME women. She was a member of the research team at Women's Budget Group, on “Intersecting Inequalities”, which undertook a cumulative impact assessment of the changes to taxes, benefits and public spending since 2010 on BAME women. She holds a PhD, in the subject of domestic violence using an intersectional approach. She is currently researching the impact of the hostile environment on victims of domestic violence and their children.

Dr Emma Beckett works in domestic abuse, training primary health care professionals in recognising and responding to domestic abuse. She will be talking about Covid-19 and domestic abuse, discussing the effect that lockdown has had upon victims and how we need to think about what happens post-lockdown.

Dr Katherine Twamley is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at University College London. Her research focuses on gender, love and intimacy, and family. Katherine has conducted research on the transition to parenthood, family policies (notably parental leave), understandings of love and marriage and how these intersect with understandings of ‘equality’. Her most recent project explores inter- and intra-family inequalities experienced and provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is being undertaken with colleagues Dr Charlotte Faircloth and Dr Humera Iqbal (project site here). In this brief talk, she will discuss some of the rationale around a focus on gender and care during COVID-19, as well as the emerging findings.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk). Do also get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk) if you have any questions about this event.

3 Hours to Love follows four intersecting stories about women who reflect on their circumstances inside the Special Prison Facility of Santa Cruz do Bispo, Portugal, where time is set by the daily routines.

As we emerge from lockdown, this might invite reconsiderations of social isolation, time, and incarceration, and on the role of imprisonment in society. We will screen the film via zoom with time for discussion and comments afterwards, which may include themes about the marking of time in prison, emotional and physical isolation, communication, and family structures, and the role of imprisonment. 

The film’s director, Patrícia Nogueira, will be joining us to discuss the making of the film and its connection to isolation during lockdown. Patrícia Nogueira is a Portuguese documentary filmmaker, producing and directing her own documentaries and working regularly in other directors’ films, both documentary and fiction. Documentary was the way she chose to express herself about the surrounding world and her inner concerns. She likes to deeply know people, try to understand them, create a relationship and give them a voice. In her first feature documentary, 3 Hours to Love, Patricia pursues her favourite topic and tries to engage audiences through women’s emotions and sexuality. She usually says, “It’s a feminine film from a feminine point of view.” The film won the award for Best Documentary at Viana do Castelo Cinema Meetings (2013) and was officially selected for DocLisboa (2013), Cine Las Americas (2014), FEST (2014), and Berlin Feminist Film Week (2015).

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk). Do also get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk) if you have any questions about this event.

“Femigami specialises in hosting playful & thought-provoking workshops using the traditional art of origami to create unconventional paper creations; facilitating conversations around body image and feminism. In this 40-minute workshop you’ll learn to make feminist icons, self-love envelopes & butterflies using materials that you can find at home. All ages welcome!”

What you’ll need:

• 6 squares of paper – any scrap/magazine paper will do (approx. 15cm x 15cm)
• Pen/ biro or felt-tip
• Wool, glue and decorations (optional)

This event is free, but ‘Femigami’ workshops are in aid of fundraising for Women’s Aid, which you can donate to here if you wish to: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/femigami

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk). Do also get in touch with Roxanne (r.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk) if you have any questions about this event.

“Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions

An opportunity to connect and discuss

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us in a number of different ways, from our emotional and mental wellbeing to productivity and how we do research. The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) is launching bi-weekly “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions to informally connect and discuss issues that are affecting our community in this uncertain time.

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

We welcome all members of our CSWG community to these sessions. We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at the moment, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or while doing something else.

Wednesday 8^th July: Career progression

There have already been articles in the news about how the Covid crisis is generating a gender disparity in publication output. This session is a space to discuss the ways that the current climate has impacted publications, workloads and expectations, career progression, and applications, and strategies to manage some of these challenges.

Session lead: Dr Khursheed Wadia: Dr Wadia has researched and written extensively on gender and political participation and civic engagement and also on gender and policy, focusing on women from racialised minorities in the UK and France.

“Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions

An opportunity to connect and discuss

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us in a number of different ways, from our emotional and mental wellbeing to productivity and how we do research. The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) is launching bi-weekly “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions to informally connect and discuss issues that are affecting our community in this uncertain time.

You do not need to RSVP. The Zoom link for the session will be sent to the CSWG mailing list on the day, so please keep an eye out for that. We ask that you do not share this link beyond our mailing list due to safety.

We welcome all members of our CSWG community to these sessions. We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at the moment, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or while doing something else.

Wednesday 15^th July: Working Conditions

Now that many of us are “working from home”, our productivity may be impacted by factors such as caring, noise, loneliness, being surrounded by too many people or not enough people, (lack of) work space, managing time, managing and delivering teaching online, headspace and mental loads. It is also now emerging that the expectations and contractual working conditions are changing and possibly being contested. This is a space to discuss how these and other factors surrounding working conditions, and what we mean by “working conditions”, are affecting the CSWG community, and to share working and campaigning strategies.

This online roundtable event aims to highlight and think through the existing gender inequalities which have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. It will focus on issues around domestic violence/violence against women and girls; disability and mental health; and state power and community-based violence as they impact Black, Asian and migrant women, in addition to women seeking asylum. The event will also tie issues around feminist scholarship and campaign work to Covid-19 and its adverse impacts. We hope that, by addressing the struggles of those most vulnerable in this current moment, the event will foster crucial dialogue and collaboration between feminist scholars, activists, and organisations, in order to inform mobilisation and resistance on the ground.

Speakers include (further speakers to be confirmed):

• Shabana Kausar (Violence against women and girls tri-borough Strategic Lead)

• Dorothea Jones (The Monitoring Group)

• Dr Vicky Canning (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Bristol)

• Gemma Williams (Doctoral Candidate, Birmingham City University)

The event is free to attend but spaces are limited. We also ask that attendees consider kindly donating £1, £3 or £5 or becoming a member of the FSA, as your generosity or membership helps to ensure that we can continue our work as a not for profit network in this increasingly difficult socio-economic climate.

The event will include the option to enable live captions and subtitles. If you have additional questions or requirements around accessibility, please get in touch on contact@the-fsa.co.uk

Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions – the TEACHING edition

The Covid-19 crisis has impacted our working lives and working practices in profound ways. To help make sense of, and manage, those impacts, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) launched earlier this year a series of “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions where staff and students got together to informally connect and discuss their experiences of those impacts.

Last term, the WNIP sessions focused on the impacts of Covid-19 on research, but this term we will turn our attention to the impacts of Covid-19 on TEACHING.

In this first session, we will focus on the Challenges of Doing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in a Pandemic. Feminist and queer approaches to pedagogy invite us to develop teaching that is interactive, inclusive, participatory, transformative, experiential, embodied and uses space differently. But how do you do this in a pandemic, learning online or in face masks? Cath Lambert (Sociology) will kickstart our discussion of the multiple challenges of doing feminist and queer pedagogies in times of Covid-19.

We will be meeting on Zoom. Please use the following details to join us:

• https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81948490432?pwd=RCtLUFFlZWxvakJaZUQ1S2RYTTVWQT09
• Meeting ID: 819 4849 0432
• Passcode: cswg

The event is open to all staff and students at Warwick and beyond. This is an informal space for connection and discussion, so please feel free to bring your lunch and eat with us during the meeting.

The session is pet- and child-friendly, so other members of your household are welcome to join us too.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, or you have any questions about the event, please get in touch with Maria (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

Work (Not?) In Progress” Sessions – the TEACHING edition

The Covid-19 crisis has impacted our working lives and working practices in profound ways. To help make sense of, and manage, those impacts, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) launched earlier this year a series of “Work (Not?) In Progress” sessions where staff and students got together to informally connect and discuss their experiences of those impacts.

Last term, the WNIP sessions focused on the impacts of Covid-19 on research, but this term we will turn our attention to the impacts of Covid-19 on TEACHING.

The topic of this session will be

“Emotions and Connections in the Socially Distanced Classroom”.
Critical approaches to pedagogy invite us to develop connected teaching that engages creatively and reflexively with emotions. But how do you do this in a socially distanced classroom, learning online or in face masks? Roxanne Douglas (English and Comparative Literary Studies) will kickstart our discussion.

We will be meeting on Zoom. Please use the following details to join the session.

• https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88360802517?pwd=dEtEZmdKa3Z3VENOcEZLUVNUcXhrQT09
• Meeting ID: 883 6080 2517
• Passcode: wnip

The event is open to all staff and students at Warwick and beyond. This is an informal space for connection and discussion, so please feel free to bring your lunch and eat with us during the meeting.

The session is pet- and child-friendly, so other members of your household are welcome to join us too.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, or you have any questions about the event, please get in touch with Maria (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

Meeting ID: 879 4442 9098

Passcode: 216952

Professor Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies Yale University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

She is the author of Imperial Intimacies, A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019) selected as one of the “Books of the Year for 2019,” by the Times Literary Supplement. Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, 2020, Finalist John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, ASA, 2020, and Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2020.

Imperial Intimacies is a history of empire, told through one woman’s search through generations of family stories. It moves between Jamaican plantations, the countryside of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London. It is an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglements of two islands. It charts the British empire’s interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling.

Dr Meleisa Ono-George (History) and Dr Hannah Jones (Sociology) will act as discussants for Professor Hazel Carby.

REGISTRATION:

This lecture is free and everyone is welcome, but you must register in advance by clicking here.

We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at home, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or pets.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Prof Nickie Charles (nickie.charles@warwick.ac.uk).

f you have any questions about the event, please contact Prof Nickie Charles (nickie.charles@warwick.ac.uk).  

Gender, Displacement and Feminist Methodologies: Researching Border Struggles of Women and LGBTQ Migrants

This webinar offers a panel of three presentations by feminist ethnographers in sociology and anthropology from India, Italy and Bangladesh. The researchers will present from their doctoral and post-doctoral research on how refugee policy is gendered in India, Italy and the UK, how women and LGBTQI migrants from the global South respond to such policies, and how we can use their narratives of border struggles ethically without producing epistemic violence. The papers focus on three feminist studies in migration and refugee studies: one doctoral study with Mediterranean migrant women and LGBTQI lived experiences in Italian border, one postdoctoral research with LGBTQ asylum-seekers and undocumented migrant women in the UK, and one doctoral study with Afghan women refugees in Delhi (India).

Chair: Dr Stavroula Tsirogianni, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Chinese University of Hongkong and Shenzen, China

Papers:

• "Migrant women’s ways out of violence: drawing a feminist ethnography at the eastern border of Italy" - Veronica Saba, University of Trieste. Italy
• "Studying gendered borders: Challenges in narrating ordeals of undocumented women and LGBTQ-asylum seekers in higher education in Britain" - Rumana Hashem, Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, UK
• "An ethnography of everyday life: The ethics and quandaries of feminist research with Afghan refugee women in Delhi" - Nithya Rajan, University of Minnesota, US
  

REGISTRATION:

This workshop is free and everyone is welcome, but you must register in advance by clicking here.

We welcome all students, staff and the general public to our events. We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at home, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or pets.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please indicate them in the relevant section of the registration form. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

Jointly hosted by the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, University of London & the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.

Panellists:

• Nirmal Puwar (Chair/Organiser)
• Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki - Reflecting on the #AMINEXT uprising in South Africa.
• Helena Suárez Val - Indignant, sad and fierce
• Adrija Dey - The right to the Campus: universities as sites of repression & counter-struggle in India

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Our streets are activated by the right to be in the city; to protest, to walk and exist without harassment. Different forms of vigilant surveillance beset bodies ‘marked’ as being out of place. Rambling anywhere and at any time is reserved for specific bodies. The right to be in public spaces is punctured daily through legal powers and forms of exclusionary citizenship, as well as everyday micro modes of measurement and dis/possession. Localised events can ignite daily lived tensions to breaking point, galvanising a force to contest repeated forms of overlooked modes of violence. This panel of speakers will consider the social and political right to the city being forged both locally and globally; including discussion of South Africa, India and Uruguay and the UK.

FREE. ALL WELCOME.

Please register for a free ticket to receive a Zoom link on the day: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-right-to-the-city-global-feminist-approaches-tickets-146913180277

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email Chloe Turner - c.turner@gold.ac.uk

Panellist Bios:

Nirmal Puwar is Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Fellow of Centre for the Study of Women and Gender University of Warwick. She has a longstanding interest in bodies and space, her book Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place (2004), generated a conceptual frame work. She co-leads the strand on Space Invading in the Global Grace project on Gender and Cultural Equalities. Her work brings together a range of methods and site-specific interventions to re-route space, nation and institutions, including Noise of the Past through Call-and-Response. At Goldsmiths she co-founded the Methods Lab to mutate methods as well as outside/inside relations within and beyond the walls of the academy. Live Methods, co-edited with Les Back, is one of eighteen collections she has co-edited.

Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalak is a post-doctoral research fellow on the GlobalGRACE project (https://www.globalgrace.net) housed at the AGI and the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (CTDPS) – University of Cape Town as well as the NGO – Sex Workers Advocacy and Educational Task Force (SWEAT). She is also a lecturer on the gender studies program at the Africa Gender Institute (AGI) – University of Cape Town. She holds a doctorate in Gender Studies from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, supervised by Prof. Gloria Wekker. Her research interests are in critical race, gender, class, sexuality, public health as well as decolonial thought and praxis.

Helena Suárez Val is a Latin American activist, researcher and social communications producer with a focus on feminism and human rights. She currently works independently, having previously worked with Amnesty International, the Global Call for Action against Poverty (GCAP) and Uruguayan feminist collective Cotidiano Mujer, amongst others. She holds an MA in Gender, Media and Culture from Goldsmiths and is pursuing a PhD at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. In 2015, she started Feminicidio Uruguay (feminicidiouruguay.net), a database and map of feminicide cases in the country. She is currently collaborating with Catherine D'Ignazio and Silvana Fumega on an international participatory action research project, Data Against Feminicide.

Adrija Dey is currently a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her post doctoral research looked at Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Indian Universities. She is also part of the 1752 groups, Account for This, Alliance of Women in Academia and other campaigns in the UK and India fighting against gendered violence in higher education.

“Online Feminisms and Online Knowledge Cultures”

a talk by Dr Akane Kanai (Monash University)

Tuesday, May 18^th
from 10.00 to 11.30 (UK time) (to convert this to your own time-zone, please click here)

Abstract
In recent times we have seen a rise in concerns on how to act ‘ethically’ as a political subject. In agonisations over how to ‘use one’s platform’ appropriately and how to engage with problematic public figures, artists, creators, there are significant anxieties over one’s authority to know, how to make claims and dispute them. These difficulties take place in a context of heightened affective-discursive attempts to ‘de-authorise’ feminist and antiracist claims at the same time that feminist and antiracist thought has gained significant momentum in its circulation and takeup online. In these events, social media has been noted to play an essential part in heightening the stakes of personal action. In this paper, I reflect on some projects on online and mediated feminism in the context of ongoing feminist debates about truth claims and the place of the personal in relation to the political. I suggest that we might productively approach and understand these concerns by thinking through online political cultures as ‘knowledge cultures’ (Knorr Cetina 1997; 2007) in which attempts to find ‘epistemic community’ are yet unresolved.

Speaker Bio
Dr Akane Kanai is a lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research areas include gender, race, and the politics of affect and identity online and in popular culture. In 2021, she was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship to explore the everyday uses of online feminism by young women.

REGISTRATION:
This talk is free and everyone is welcome, but you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE by clicking HERE.
Once you register, you will receive the Zoom link via email a few days before the event.

We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at home, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or pets.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

This teach-in, organised by the Social Theory Centre and co-hosted by CSWG, aims to deepen understanding of what is happening in Palestine by placing events in a longer historical context.

Israel's 11-day bombardment of the Gaza strip in May once again brought public attention to the most visible forms of oppression and violence to which Palestinians are subjected. The aim of this teach-in is to deepen understanding of what is happening in Palestine by placing events in a longer historical context of settler-colonialism, dispossession, resistance and mobilisation.

The speakers will also critically assess the ways in which Palestine has been framed in Western academia, highlighting the need for a decolonial and emancipatory engagement with Palestine as a global struggle for justice and liberation.

Speakers

• Hadeel Himmo, student, University of Warwick - Censoring Palestine
• Ashjan Ajour, Researcher, University of Leicester - A view from Gaza
• Muna Dajani, Senior Research Associate, Lancaster Environment Centre - Decolonising the Question of Palestine
• Marwan Darweish, Associate Professor, Center for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, University of Coventry - A history of Palestinian popular resistance

Moderator: Nicola Pratt, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.

Indicative Readings

• Ayyash, Mark, 2021 'Building from the Rubble', The Baffler. 19 May
• Tatour, Lana 2021 'Why calling Israel an apartheid state is not enough', 18 January

This event is open to all. You can register through this Eventbrite page.

“Emotions, hashtag feminism and consciousness-raising: a history of feminist radicalness and co-option”

a talk by Gabriela Loureiro (University of West London; Queen Mary - University of London)

Monday, June 28^th
from 12.00 to 1.30 (UK time) (to convert this to your own time-zone, please click here)

Abstract
Feminist hashtags have received significant attention from both mainstream media and scholarly debates for its capacity to engage large numbers of people in curated conversations about sexual violence, where personal disclosures can be read relationally. Hashtag feminism has been interpreted as a form of digital consciousness-raising where participants are understood as engaging in campaigns in order to raise awareness and educate individuals about varied forms of violence. However, these digital campaigns also replicate challenges and problems historically present in feminist activism, such as conflicts of difference and biased “solidarities”. The reproduction of such problems demonstrates how hashtag feminism is not necessarily a frivolous, depoliticised form of activism but actually mirrors a number of intersecting and conflicting histories of feminisms’ radicalness and co-option. I argue that the study of emotions in feminist activism is essential to the understanding of the continuation of these problems and explore the role of emotions in feminist campaigns in three main axes: recognition of discrimination and abuse, speaking out and building solidarity. In this talk, I will share part of the analysis of my PhD thesis, in which I examine two hashtags that went viral in Brazil in 2015, named the “year of Women’s Spring”: #PrimeiroAssédio (#FirstHarassment) and #MeuAmigoSecreto (#MySecretFriend). Through discourse analysis of 179 Facebook posts and in-depth interviews with participants, I explore the significance of emotional engagements for feminist projects and the potentials and limitations of hashtag feminism for consciousness-raising.

Speaker Bio
Gabriela Loureiro is a journalist and doctoral researcher at UWL primarily interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and migration. She works as a research associate at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Geography’s project Connecting During Covid (CDC), looking at migrant’s remittances as practices of care during the pandemic. Her PhD thesis, entitled “Embodied emotions and collective struggle: hashtag feminism as digital consciousness-raising in Brazil”, examines the emotional work of online disclosure in digital feminist campaigns. Her academic publications revolve around contemporary forms of feminist activism in Brazil, the legacy of Marielle Franco and the connections between embodiment, therapy and art in digital spaces.

REGISTRATION:
This talk is free and everyone is welcome, but you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE by clicking HERE.
Once you register, you will receive the Zoom link via email a few days before the event.

We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at home, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or pets.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch with Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk).

Join us for the first seminar of the Warwick CSWG Graduate Seminar series 2021/22, themed "Law and Disorder".

All are welcome.

This session will explore gender-related impasses in the legal and activist spheres. Based on black queer feminist abolitionist praxis and carceral logic, crimes of sexual violence are put under discursive scrutiny to demonstrate a long due need for reforms to address femicide and misogyny within the criminal legal system. Similarly, another investigation aims to assess the political relevance of data gathering, visualisation, and dissemination to eliminate violence against women in Latin America. Finally, based on trans writing and surveillance and sensory criminology scholarship, an investigation on self and group- regulation and the renegotiation of sounds interrogate how the patriarchal governance of gender forces self-identifying women and men into traditional structures.

The following papers will be presented:

• “I walk gently and speak softly”: exploring how we hear gender by interrogating the surveillance of sound within the public bathroom" by Lizzie Hughes
• "Misogyny and Hate Crime" by Meghan Hoyt
• "The Productive Character of Carcerality: How are carceral logics producing and shaping critical feminist approaches to sexual violence?" by Molly Ackhurst and Nic Aaron

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the organising committee (cswgseminarseries@gmail.com).

Join us for the second seminar of the Warwick CSWG Graduate Seminar series 2021/22, themed "Queer & Dynamic Identities".

All are welcome.

This session revolves around questions of identity and body, family and nation, religion and activism, whereby the pervasive ruling of heteronormativity is challenged by the lived experiences of the Black African Queer diaspora, as well as by those of trans and homosexual individuals in the context of Muslim-majority Pakistan; societal acceptance and legal recognition of same-sex parenthood in Greece; and calls for political change and the renegotiation of transgender narratives in literature. 

The following papers will be presented:

• “A Soul in Physical Stress: Transgender Epistemologies and Transitioning Ethics in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood" by Andreea Moise
• "Queer Activism n Lahore" by Naseeba Umar
• "Regulating Same-Sex Parenting in Greece: Institutional Changes, Social Acceptance, Claims" by Athina Mara

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the organising committee (cswgseminarseries@gmail.com).

Join us on Wednesday 8th December at 3pm for our third seminar in the CSWG seminar series themed 'History & Culture'. All are welcome.

History & Culture comprises four distinct investigations whose reciprocity evidence overlapping inequalities engineered through the power of historical framings and biased perceptions on womanhood, single parenthood, and the gender effects on the legal treatment of women in conflict with the law. The investigations offer complementary snapshots of the effects of gender, race and social inequalities through legal, social and historical lenses.

Speakers:

Siti Shari: "The Status of the Victorian Women and Infanticide: History Behind Infanticide Act 1938"

Arna Dirghangi: "The nouvelle femme of Calcutta: How the 1947 Bengal Partition set forth a newly-acquired agency in the refugee woman during post-partition resettlement"

Aleksandr Lepin: "Social work with single-fathers raising children following divorce in Russia"

Amy Andrada: "The Construction of Motherhood: Re-conceptualizing Single Mothers"

Meeting ID: 816 6594 4213

Passcode: 024506

This series offers an overview of the state of women’s rights and wellbeing in Global South societies and discuss persisting injustices, such as unequal access to basic services, such as health and education, by investigating decision-making and bargaining power within the household and the relationship between these and gender discriminatory perceptions reinforced at the societal legal. Additionally, it provides a platform to two contrasting investigations on the relationship of women with feminism. On one hand, evidence of grief as a feminist tool for activism and solidarity has women in the MENA region take ownership of non-violent discourse to counter state-sanctioned violence. On the other, a study shows how and why young Chinese women are actively distancing themselves from a feminist identity against the backdrop of a rising feminist movement in the Global South.

• Taoyuan Luo: "'Feminist’ as a problematic tag: young Chinese women distancing themselves from a feminist identity and the rising feminist zeal"
• Islam Al Khatib: "Re-purposing Solidarity: Grief as a Feminist Tool in the MENA"
• Abena Nyarkoa: "What factors help us understand the academic achievement of a small group of Ghanaian girls from disadvantaged backgrounds? Participants lived experiences"
• Sritama Manda: "Gender and Health in India"

Meeting ID:885 7166 2113

Passcode: 938020

The series ‘Women on the Move’ encompasses intersectional experiences of women in the face of gender and colonial power imbalances, as well as the social significance of their various roles in the private and public spheres of life. By shedding light on the relevance of female leadership vis-a-vis persisting structural biases derived from both patriarchal and racist social constructions, a multidisciplinary group of researchers will highlight women’s contribution to societies in key historical periods and national contexts.

• Caoimhe Kiernan: "How can the affects inspired by the global feminist judgment projects influence the gender composition of judiciaries in common law jurisdictions?"
• Lucy Crompton: "Gender bias in financial remedies on divorce"
• Erin Geraghty: "Why enquire into something the world already knows about?” Comparing imperial feminist motivations for Millicent Fawcett’s ‘Committee of Ladies’ to South Africa 1901 and the Women’s International League delegation to Ireland 1920"
• Kathrina Perry: "Ladies of the Shoe Trade: Philanthropy, politics and the social significance of the wives of prominent shoe manufacturers in Northampton, 1870 – 1950"

The Media & Literature series comprises investigations on the negative representation of the female body in a male-dominated industry, including tendencies around the hyper-sexualisation of the girl child, the reinforcement of rape culture, and the impact of these on body and gender in the social imaginary. Additionally, as a counterpoint, the series also offer a look into female authorship and creativity and the struggle of women to explore and establish a literary identity within the world of literature during the Modernist and early Contemporary periods of American Literature.

• Hannah Sherwood: "'Girls Just Want to Have Fun': Development of the Music Video and the Female Body"
• Irene Rodriguez Pintado: "Female creation as female self-assertion: The Diary of Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar on female creativity and authorship"
• Nelly Fais-sad: "Lolita – The Myth of the Child-Woman in Visual Media Concepts"
• Melissa Arkley-Simpson: "Let Us Be Angry! An Intersectional Analysis of Feminist Anger Expressed Through the Affective Labour of Female Extreme Metal Vocalists"

In this seminar, we will problematise the relationship between failure and queer subjectivities in times of neoliberalism. The seminar will feature talks by two speakers:

• Kat Gupta (University of Roehampton): Failing better
• Boka En (University of Vienna): 'Together, we reflect and learn': Failure, shame, and performing progressive subjectivities

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, click HERE.

You can either join us directly on Zoom (the link will be sent to registered participants) or watch a live stream of the Zoom event from room H0.52, on the University of Warwick campus.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Stars, Sieves and Women's Stories: an interactive exhibition about early modern fortune telling

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

A Slice of Science

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Women's Stories of Criminalisation - Exhibition

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Women's Stories of Criminalisation - Workshop: Our Own Stories

Being a PhD student is a time of entering new spaces within academia – institutions, departments, research groups, committees, Twitter spaces – all while negotiating the chatter and challenges of personal lives, relationships, and situations. While this can bring new friends, colleagues, and opportunities, entering these new spaces can reveal both new conflicts and feelings of being ‘out of place’: particularly as feminists.

This student-led zine-making workshop hopes to form a space for PhD students to come together and share experiences of navigating such conflicted spaces, critically reflecting on the structures and processes that come to shape them. We aim to reflect on our collective insights as well as those from colleagues and mentors who are later down the line in academia. We plan to put together a self-help zine, including tips for navigating, negotiating, (and moaning about!) PhD life as feminists.

The troubles of PhD life cannot be solved with a self-help zine. Yet there’s a power in moaning and making, and in this we hope to build friendships and solidarities within the university, while also providing a resource for those around and beyond it.

Come prepared to cut, paste, and chat.

We welcome all PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who would like to attend.
No previous experience of zines is necessary, nor any artistic proficiency!
Lunch will be provided, along with all necessary materials for zine-making. We also actively encourage bringing with you any materials – visual, material, lyrical, and otherwise – that will bring your contribution to the zine to life!

REGISTRATION:

This workshop is free, but places are limited, and will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

To register for a place, click here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/archive/eventregistration-zines

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate dietary requirements, accessibility requirements and any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.

If you register but realise that you can no longer attend the event, please get in touch with us ASAP on cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk, so we can offer your place to someone else.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

And (M)other Stories

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Coventry Women's Suffrage Walk

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Alternative Trails: Mapping South Asian Women's Activism

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

Ghosts, Fairies and a Wombful of Rabbits

Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture

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In this face to face event, Dr Akane Kanai will join us in person to discuss her recent Feminist Theory article on intersectionality in digital feminist knowledge cultures – available here.

Akane will present the article briefly, and then we will discuss the article with her. The discussion will be open, informal and inclusive, and will also offer a wonderful opportunity for staff and students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) at Warwick (and beyond) to discuss their own research and questions on topics related to social media, online feminist and anti-racist activism, intersectionality, gender and race, digital knowledge cultures, affect and identity online, and travelling theories.

The event is free and open to all, but advance registration is required. You can register here.

Speaker Bio
Dr Akane Kanai is a lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research areas include gender, race, and the politics of affect and identity online and in popular culture. In 2021, she was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship to explore the everyday uses of online feminism by young women.

If you have any questions or requests relating to the event, please send an email to cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

You are warmly invited to this year's CSWG Annual Lecture, featuring Dr Srila Roy.

Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

This talk will provide an overview of my forthcoming book, Changing the Subject. The book maps a shifting terrain of feminist and queer politics in India with the liberalisation of the Indian economy. The consequences of India’s liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development signaled the co-option and depoliticization of struggles around gender and sexuality but also amplified their visibility and vitalization in unexpected ways. Beyond narratives of feminism’s co-option or renewal, this book reveals the specificity of activist and nongovernmental organization (ngo) work, and the kinds of subjects and selves that these made possible. The interplay between organizational logics and ones of self-making is at the heart of this book, and it offers a new way of knowing feminism, as a governmentality and as a technology of the self.

SRILA ROY is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and the 2022 Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012), and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualising Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford, 2015). Her book on feminist and queer politics in contemporary India will be published by Duke University Press in 2022. At Wits, she leads the Governing Intimacies project, which promotes new scholarship on gender and sexuality in Southern Africa and India, and is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.

REGISTRATION:

This lecture is free and everyone is welcome, but you must register in advance by clicking here.

We understand many of you are juggling work with other responsibilities at home, so we are happy for you to join the event with children or pets.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch via cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

f you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

In this event, we will reflect critically on the achievements and limitations of Athena Swan and other equality schemes in contemporary UK higher education. Building on critical conversations about Athena Swan held in 2017, this workshop seeks to reassess such schemes 5 years on. What new challenges are emerging in, and for, Athena Swan work? Which ongoing dilemmas continue to shape and constrain that work?

The event is open to all those engaging with Athena Swan work, in any capacity. It will include ample time for discussion and knowledge-exchange, following interventions by three speakers:

• Kalwant Bhopal (University of Birmingham)

Gender vs Race in higher education: competing identities
This presentation explores how gender has always been given precedence over race in higher education policy making, specifically through the Athena Swan Charter.

• Charikleia (Charoula) Tzanakou (Oxford Brookes University)

Reflecting on Athena SWAN within and beyond the UK
This presentation will be informed by the findings of a H2020 feasibility study on a Europe wide gender equality scheme which included mapping of inequalities certification and award schemes. It will look at Athena SWAN as one of the key certification schemes identified and will provide perspectives on the dilemmas, challenges and potential future opportunities in light of the changing European policy context and the global expansion of Athena SWAN charters.

• Ruth Pearce (University of Glasgow)

Using Diversity: to Degenerate Universities into the Most Egregious Wokery
University equality schemes, once the method of choice for “diverse and inclusive” neoliberal governance, are increasingly under siege. Following extensive criticisms of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme by journalists, politicians, and on social media, Advance HE’s Athena SWAN and Race Equality charters are now also under increasing scrutiny. This talk will explore how and why equality schemes became targets in the culture wars of the 2020s, taking into account factors such as the global anti-gender movement, racist ‘anti-woke’ language, and the renewed rise of global fascism.

(speaker bios below)

This online workshop is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, click HERE.

If you face any access barriers and there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please get in touch via cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

SPEAKER BIOS:

Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education at the University of Birmingham. Her recent book, ‘White Privilege: the myth of a post-racial society’ was published by Press Press.

Charikleia (Charoula) Tzanakou is the Co-Director for the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice and a Senior Lecturer of HRM at Oxford Brookes University. She researches how gender and intersectional inequalities are reproduced and can be disrupted in various settings with a focus on higher education and research. She is currently the PI for a H2020 project on impact of COVID-19 on inequalities (RESISTIRE) and a British Council funded project 'Brazil-UK partnership in advancing women in HE'. Some recent publications include: Certifying Gender Equality in Research: Lessons learnt from Athena SWAN and Total E-quality award schemes´ in Frontiers in Sociology; ‘Stickiness in academic career (im) mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece’ in Higher Education; ´Unintended consequences of gender-equality plans´ in Nature and ´Moderate feminism within or against the neoliberal university? The example of Athena SWAN´ with Pearce in Gender, Work & Organization.

Ruth Pearce is a Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores themes of inequality, marginalisation, power, and transformative political struggle from a trans feminist perspective. She is the author of “Understanding Trans Health” (Policy Press, 2018), plus co-editor of “The Emergence of Trans” (Routledge, 2019) and “TERF Wars” (Sage, 2020). She blogs about her work at http://ruthpearce.net.

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick would like to invite postgraduate students from any international institution working in gender and women’s studies or any related field to present at the Graduate Student Seminar Series for the academic year 2022/2023.

There is no particular ‘theme’ for this year’s seminar series. We welcome submissions from all disciplines on any gender related topics. There will be six seminar slots spread over the year.

The CSWG Graduate Student Seminar Series provides a friendly, informal setting for graduate students to give presentations (between 15 and 30 minutes) and exchange ideas related to women and gender studies. Seminars aim to be interactive. Attendance is open to all faculty members and students, within and outside the university. To see the programme for past editions of the Graduate Seminar Series, click hereLink opens in a new window.

The seminars will be held up to thrice a term, tentatively set for Wednesday afternoons from 3 – 5 p.m.

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications

Abstracts to be considered should be:

• Maximum 200 words
• Include 4-5 key words below your abstract
• Submitted by 1st of October 2022

Please submit your abstracts here: CSWG abstract submissionLink opens in a new window.

If successful, you will hear from us in the week commencing 9th of October 2022. If you have any further questions, please email us at cswgseminarseries@gmail.comLink opens in a new window

outside(R): a zine fest celebrating contemporary DIY practice & culture and reframing interpretations of being outside or an outsider

An Audience With…
An audience with zine makers, collectors and researchers.

Booking is required to attend this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audience-with-at-outsider-zine-fest-cov-tickets-421430157947

This event is suitable for those aged 16+, there may be discussion of sensitive topics.

outside(R): a zine fest celebrating contemporary DIY practice & culture and reframing interpretations of being outside or an outsider

Zine Fair

20 zine stall holders from across the UK and zine workshops.
No need to book, just turn up.
There will be a workshop aimed at children.
However, some stalls and workshops will be showing sensitive content; please supervise your children.

outside(R): a zine fest celebrating contemporary DIY practice & culture and reframing interpretations of being outside or an outsider

Zine Makers Brunch

Zine themed vegan brunch and discussions.
Booking required, email chris.woodward@coventry.gov.uk to book a place.

You are warmly invited to this year's CSWG Annual Lecture.

"Rage, Guilt, Shame, Depression, Exhaustion: An Index of Intersectional Feeling"

Abstract

What are, what does it mean, and how does it feel to inhabit the affective scripts of feminism today? We will attempt to chart the routines of feeling that make meaning, purpose, and direction for feminism in uncomfortable, often thwarted ways. In this talk, we look at articulations of rage, guilt, shame, depression, and exhaustion in feminist studies, in order to examine what has become, we’ve argued, feminism’s good object and methodology of this era: intersectionality. In looking at the affectual and material dimensions of the dominant modes of critiquing and curing white feminism-- shame and its sisters, guilt and depression-- we hope to think through the limits and the possibilities of bad objecthood and bad feelings in feminist thought and institutional praxis around its seemingly “good” object of intersectionality and the rage it imagines necessary as a disciplining force for the field and practice of feminism. Paying careful attention to the uses, usefulness, and limits of these registers in the feminist political imagination, we trace intersectional feminist scholarly, art, and media discernments of these affects while also theorizing emergent affects like exhaustion that append to the political formation & futures of feminism. In doing so, we hope both to make transparent the critical desires of feminist politics predicated on the narration of affective lives and to argue for renewed attention to the complex emotional registers of institutional life & feminism’s vulnerable and yet sustaining labor around it. We ultimately hope to consider under-studied modes of political feeling and thinking that Black feminism has highlighted to explore what these seemingly negative or minor affects look like when applied to intersectionality and feminism as objects and methods of study.

Speaker Bios

• Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor and current Chair of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She earned her PhD in African American Studies at Harvard University and her JD at Harvard Law School. She is the author of three books: The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association), Black Feminism Reimagined (awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association), and Birthing Black Mothers (Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association). She is the editor of Gender: Love (Macmillan, 2016), and a co-editor (along with Samantha Pinto) of The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities (Routledge, 2022). Her research has been supported by the ACLS/Burkhardt Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship. Her current book project is How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory (under contract, Duke University Press).
• Samantha Pinto is Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Institute, core faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic(NYU Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights(Duke UP, 2020). She also co-edited Writing Beyond the State (Palgrave, 2020) with Alexandra S. Moore, and co-edits the Duke University Press book series “Black Feminism on the Edge” with Jennifer C. Nash. She is currently working on a third book on race, internal embodiment, and scientific discourse in African American and African Diaspora culture, as well as a books on feminist ambivalence and on divorce.
  

This lecture is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, click HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk.

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate access requirements and other needs. Do not hesitate to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.  

This event was previously scheduled for Wednesday 30th November - but has been moved to Thursday 1st December due to the UCU strike action.

Join us for our first session of this year's graduate seminar series in which we will be using feminist perspectives to critically analyse the legal and carceral systems from a variety of angles. Using case studies from Croatia, India and Spain, our three panellists will lay bare some of the central gendered dynamics that operate throughout the legal processes, from the defining and situating of a crime, to the characterisation of criminal behaviour, through to the formulation and reclamation of identity in a prison context. In doing so, we will be confronted by various patriarchal institutions, gendered constructions and paternalistic narratives that fundamentally shape how these systems of justice function.

Papers:

University of Split - Blanka Cop: "Where Would We Be If We Detained All Family Abusers?" Necessity Of Feminist Perspective in Study and Prevention of Femicide in Croatia

Jawaharlal Nehru University - Shreya Mahajan: Gender and the Law: Construction of insanity by Indian Courts

University of Birmingham - Mia Parkes: Women’s writing in Franco’s prisons: motherhood, femininity, and solidarity

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Meeting ID: 859 4950 9581

Passcode: 734083

If you have any questions about the events in the series, please email us via cswgseminarseries@gmail.com.

You are warmly invited to a talk by Dr Julian Honkasalo (University of Helsinki).

Abstract:

Scholars, such as Blassnig et al. (2019), have shown that populist right wing campaigns often deliberately use informal fallacies as a strategy for driving across political goals. Consequently, a critical response that is dependent on sound argumentation is likely to be inefficient because the intention of the fallacious argument is not a fair debate to begin with (Honkasalo 2022). As right-wing activists distribute political messages also through hybrid cyber attacks, such as the use of bots (fake profiles) and trolls, informal fallacies become normalized as part of populist rhetoric, which has erosive and destructive consequences for democratic debate.

Recently, particularly US based, conservative YouTube alternative news shows have drawn their multimillion follower and viewer platforms’ attention to academic programs, such as gender studies as well as university anti-discrimination policies in particular as posing a threat to constitutionally protected freedom of speech. It is my contention that by doing so they contribute to the strengthening and mainstreaming of previous, European far-right attempts to undermine gender studies as an academically legitimate discipline (eg. Patternotte & Verloo 2021).

Against this backdrop and context I ask: how can gender studies students and scholars respond to the increasing trend of anti-gender campaigning that is rooted in disseminating false information and informal argumentative fallacies? When should one not respond?

Author Bio:

Julian Honkasalo is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral scholar and a docent in gender studies at The University of Helsinki, Finland. They hold a PhD in gender studies (University of Helsinki, 2016) and a PhD in political science (The New School for Social Research, 2018). Honkasalo has conducted research on the historical connection between eugenics and transgender sterilization legislation as well as the question of how gender minorities resist biopolitical violence through community-building and utopian imagining. Honkasalo’s forthcoming book From the Absence of Gender to Feminist Solidarity: Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (under contract with Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington) analyses four decades of feminist interpretations of Arendt’s political thought. Honkasalo’s most recent research interest focuses on the use of gender panic in anti-gender mobilization and they have published on the deliberate use of argumentative fallacies in conservative and far-right anti-gender rhetoric in the European Journal of Women’s Studies.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, click HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk.

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate access requirements and other needs. Do not hesitate to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.

Bing Lu (Education Department/IAS early career fellow) will be talking to us about supervisory relationships and power dynamics, the topic of her PhD. Together we will discuss how we can rethink supervisory relationships not as something necessarily scary and intimidating, but as something more hopeful. In the second part of the session, we will make zines reflecting on our own supervisory relationships and experiences.

PhD students from any department are very welcome to join, and no experience of zine making is required!

What's a zine? A small magazine! They're generally self-published, DIY leaflet-like documents which discuss particular issues/topics. If you've never made a zine before, it's no problem - we will show you the basics! We will also have some examples of zines on hand for you to browse and get inspiration from.

How will the workshop work? The first part of the session will be facilitated by Bing Lu, a doctoral researcher based in the Education department and IAS early career fellow. Bing will give an interactive presentation on supervisors, and thinking about how the supervisory relationship can be a positive resource. In the second part, we will make zines (facilitated by Carys Hill, Sociology PhD student) which reflect on our supervisory relationships.

Why '(Re)thinking supervisory relationships'? Lots of us have stories - our own, or from others - of supervisor disasters. We're not looking to overlook this (you're welcome to bring these stories to the workshop!), but we wonder how these stories of supervisory disasters can stop us from thinking about the potentials of supervisors. How can we think about the supervisory relationship in ways that aren't shaped by fear, intimidation or shyness, but instead in terms of resource and potential?

Have any questions or accessibility requirements? Email Carys: c.hill.1@warwick.ac.uk

A research seminar co-hosted with the Criminal Justice CentreLink opens in a new window.

"Penitentiary pleasures: Queer understandings of prison paradoxes"

Dr. Elena Vasiliou, Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Warwick & University of California Berkeley.

Abstract:
In this article, I advocate for the application of queer theory as a means of deconstructing the binary formation through which pain and pleasure in prison are understood. To do that, I explore how ex-prisoners’ narratives might reveal (queer) moments of pleasure and complement existing criminological scholarship that has neglected such an issue. This exploration is framed by Foucault’s theory of pleasure as a productive force that renders it akin to power: it produces an effect. In this article, I draw on Edelman’s concept of “futurity” and Halberstam’s “failure” to bring criminology and queer theory into a productive dialogue. In my analysis, I use Jackson and Mazzei’s “plugging in” approach centered around the categories of (a) pleasure and pain, (b) pleasure and resistance, and (c) sexuality and pleasure. This article draws data from a broader study of ex-prisoners in Cyprus. This work posits a question about the possibility and productivity of pleasure in conditions of resisting, failing, and suffering. I argue that this framework goes beyond normative criminological approaches to reveal how prison experience is not only a struggle between power and resistance, but a complex nexus which also involves self-destruction and pleasure.

"Rethinking Sex and Intimacy in British Prisons"

Sarah Lamble, Reader in Criminology & Queer Theory, Birbeck

Tanya Serisier, Reader in Feminist Theory, Birbeck

Lizzie Hughes, Doctoral Candidate, Birbeck

Alex Dymock, Lecturer in Law, Goldmiths

Join us for our second session of this year's Graduate Seminar Series on the topic of Feminism, Identity and Subjectivity.

The seminar focuses on feminist engagements with power and social relations from three different contexts. It involves the digital feminist activism in China, issues of naming and otherisation of Taiwanese diasporic women in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, and the affective dimension in Clarice Lispector’s novel, O Lustre (1946). Through these unique contributions, our panellists explore the multiple terrains of feminist activism, solidarity and theory.

Papers:

University of Oxford - Georgia Lin: “Legal” vs. “Preferred”: An Autoethnography on the Affective Consequences of Whiteness in Naming

University of Oxford - Lingchen Huang: Affective Bodies, Playing and Micropolitics in O Lustre by Clarice Lispector Digital Femininities

Ohio University - Eva Liu: MeToo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China

If you have any questions about the events in the series, please email us via cswgseminarseries@gmail.com.

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Meeting ID: 853 6417 9695

Passcode: 926985

(Im)possibilities of transnational (feminist) solidarity: The Women, Life, Freedom Uprising in Iran

Who?: Dr Shabnam Holliday, University of Plymouth; Dr Sara Tafakori, University of Leeds; and Asma Abdi, University of Warwick. Chaired by: Professor Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick.

When?: Friday, 27^th January, 2pm – 4pm

Where?: H0.58 (Humanities Building)

Seeking to situate the ongoing wave of protests that broke out in Iran in response to the death of Jîna 'Mahsa' Amini in September 2022, this roundtable asks: What does (not) transnational solidarity look like within the context of the "Women, Life, Freedom" uprising in Iran? How does one engage in meaningful forms of solidarity in ways that are sensitive to the multiplicities of oppressions that impact people’s everyday lives in Iran at both local and global levels?

To answer these questions, the roundtable will engage in: investigating transnational feminist solidarity building and its complications within the uprising; contextualising the movement within the larger histories of feminist and women’s struggle in Iran; locating the struggle within the larger regional and global (geo)political and economic structures.

Through centring the voices of Iranian scholars dedicated to exploring identity, gender and resistance, as well as domestic and foreign policy in Iran, this roundtable offers the opportunity to challenge some of the predominant narratives that have emerged amongst policy practitioners and media outlets in the West.

This roundtable will be of interest to anyone studying transnational activism, gender politics, resistance movements in the Global South. It is open to everyone.

Organised by: Dr Sara Bamdad, Asma Abdi & Bronwen Mehta

Supported by: Warwick Doctoral College, the Centre for the Study of Women & Gender

We’d like to invite you to the interactive workshop “Human rights defenders in Latin America: sharing stories and protecting legacies”, which aims to celebrate the lives of human rights and environmental activists by exploring the diversity and power of social mobilisation in Latin America and discussing the challenges faced by women activists, particularly women of colour, who are subjected to increasing State persecution and social ostracization in the pursuit of justice and equity.

The event will be held in person in the Cowling Room (S2.77) on the 6^th of March, 2023, from 3-6pm. We’ll have snacks and refreshments and students and staff from all departments are welcome to join!

Please find our agenda below:

- Introductions (20 mins)

- Expert’s talk (30 mins): Verónica Vidal

- Poster-making activity in break-out groups (30 mins)

- Plenary discussion (45 mins)

- Closure (15 mins)

To register, please follow the linkLink opens in a new window and feel free to reach out if you have any special requests of suggestions.

This event is organised by Mariah Gama, Claudia Garcia and Bruna Rego and supported by Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG).

Join us for our special International Women's Day session of this year's Graduate Seminar Series on the topic of Nationalism and State's Policies

Papers:

University College London - Xuerui Hu: Family-based Reproductive Citizenship: lesbians' journey of having a child in mainland China

London School of Economics - Kimia Talebi: "Unveiling" the modern man and woman: the transformation of gender in Pahlavi Iran, 1925-41

Brainware University - Debadrita Saha: The embodied semiotics of the subaltern subject: mapping the sexual agency of female domestic workers in colonial Bengal

University of Stirling - Rachel Abreu: Instagram, Beauty and the Role of Religious, Ethnic Background

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Meeting ID: 899 4020 7950

Passcode: 107210

If you have any questions about the events in the series, please email us via cswgseminarseries@gmail.com.

You’re warmly invited to a talk by Prof. Marcela Aedo (University of Valparaiso, Chile) who is visiting Warwick as visiting scholar for the next 3 weeks. Her research is in the areas of gender, youth justice, the sociology of law and human rights and feminist criminology.

Title: Adolescent Girls Deprived of Liberty in Chile, Gender, and Human Rights: Some Considerations for a Sectoral Policy

Abstract: The idea that the law defines and reinforces gender identities, and sustains sexual discrimination is especially interesting when applied to the area of deprivation of liberty in the juvenile penal system. A paradigmatic case in terms of rights violations is the situation experienced by girls and adolescents deprived of liberty. Rights such as mental health, sexual and reproductive rights, and the right to live a life free from violence (mainly physical and sexual abuse), are especially affected during deprivation of liberty according to international studies on the subject. By virtue of the above, the Fondecyt initiation and research project that we are currently developing intends to deal with the penitentiary treatment that adolescent girls deprived of liberty in a closed regime receive under the current system of adolescent criminal responsibility as regulated by Law No. 20.084 (hereinafter LRPA). To this end, a 3-year work plan has been drawn up, the main specific objectives of which are, on the one hand, to review the information gathered by the Interinstitutional Commissions for the Supervision of Incarceration Centers (hereinafter CISC), the existing legislation, policies and programs in this area; and secondly, to identify whether the regulations, policies and specialized programs on Adolescent Criminal Responsibility incorporate the gender perspective, taking into special consideration the standards recognized in the corpus juris of the International Law on the Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents (hereinafter referred to as NNA), as well as international studies and practices. Using this frame of reference, the situation of adolescent girls who are deprived of liberty in a closed regime (whether convicted or charged) will be analyzed to critically examine the problems identified in the penitentiary system with respect to them, in order to propose improvements in current penitentiary policy. Finally, the specific objective of the Seminar is to share some of the results of the first part of the fieldwork that we have carried out in the last 3 months.

Join us for the fourth session of this year's Graduate Seminar Series on the topic of Queer Phenomenology

Papers:

University of Vienna - Flora Löffelmann: When Clocks Stop Working – Queer Temporality, Collective Continuance and Rhetoric-Epistemic Oppression

University of Oxford - Sofia Sanabria de Felipe: Non-binary neurodivergent lived experience: a case study in being at home in one’s virtual and physical body

If you have any questions about the events in the series, please email us via cswgseminarseries@gmail.comLink opens in a new window.

Echoing the sounds of feminist mobilisations in Iran through art, literature, reading, performance and music.

Sound has been a key conductor of the feminist mobilisations in Iran, which have mushroomed after the state killing of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, who died while in the custody of the morality police. This evening will bring Woman, Life, Freedom to Coventry Cathedral, a centre for peace and reconciliation. The rage, anger, pain, hope and solidarity of the movement, will be placed in the vast volume and shifting light of the architecture.

Audiences will dwell on multi-media projections and a mixture of sounds. Along with musical performances, screening, performance of poetry and talks, you will also hear Shervin Hajipour's song Baraye, which was composed of tweets in Iran on why people are protesting. Becoming an anthem for Iranian protestors and in the diaspora, it picked up the Grammy award for ‘Best Song for Social Change’.

To Book, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woman-life-freedom-the-sounds-of-a-revolution-tickets-598323580937

This event is supported by Sustainable Cities Global Research Priorities (University of Warwick), Centre for Feminist Research (Goldsmiths, University of London), Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (University of Warwick).

As part of the Department of Sociology’s new Inaugural Lecture Programme, you are warmly invited to join Professor Khursheed Wadia as she delivers her inaugural lecture. Details are set out below.

The lecture will start at 5:00pm and will be followed by a drinks reception from 6.15pm.

The event is free and open to all. Please register in advance by clicking on the link below.

Register for the event.

About the lecture

The study of Muslim women in West European societies is recent. The category ‘Muslim women’ is itself recent, having emerged in the post 9/11 era. Before that women whose origins lay in Muslim-majority countries were labelled according to their ethnicity or nationality – hence Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali, Algerian. Drawing on archival sources and empirical research carried out over the last 15 years, this talk presents an overview of the political engagement of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other Asian women in the post-war period. It goes on to discuss the emergence of ‘Muslim women’, asking how this category emerged, how women in this category are seen and how this visibility governs their interest in certain issues and political activism. It considers the political engagement of Muslim women, arguing that Muslim women, in all their diversity, have felt compelled to be politically engaged because of who they are.

Khursheed Wadia is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her teaching and research over many years has focused on women, gender and politics in the broadest sense. Her book Muslim women and power: Political and civic engagement in European societies (co-authored with Danièle Joly) won the Political Studies Association Mackenzie prize for best book in political science in 2018.

You are warmly invited to a talk by Dr Mona Mannevuo and Dr Elina Valovirta (University of Turku), entitled "Shifting our gaze from individuals to structures – to where? The strange feeling structures of university work". It will take place on May 24th 2023, on Zoom at 10.00 (UK time; to convert to another timezone, click here)

Abstract:

This presentation deals with academic time management discourses or "tendencies" (Sedgwick 1995) as an affective phenomenon in the neoliberal university. The genre based on efficiency thinking, neuromanagement and brain plasticity appears as an antidote to chronic time poverty plaguing academics worldwide. However, time management often aims to serve individual, not collective, goals. The question remains whether these time management tendencies are effective to solve problems experienced in the university community on a structural level.

Numerous studies have stated that time-related affects such as guilt and anxiety plague the subjects of academic work, and burnout is not an exception but almost a rule concerning university workers. However, the ideas of a slow university or skillful time management brought to control the chaos and counterbalance the eternal rush do not seem to completely remedy the situation. Academic, precarious work culture is a structure, but people through their own actions create the emotional structure or atmosphere that emerges from it. Our attempt is to envision, what sustainable time activism could look like. Thinking about time differently could help balance the accelerating pace of work and bring back the joy of collectivity crucial to feminist practices and politics.

Author Bios:

Mona Mannevuo works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She received her PhD in gender studies from the University of Turku and holds a title of docent in political history at the University of Helsinki. Her current research explores the complicated history of work-related fatigue. Her research has been published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies and Sociological Review. She has recently published two monographs in Finnish, one on the history of Finnish work psychology, and the other on the growing impact of communications agencies on Finnish politics (with Matti Ylönen and Niina Kari).

Elina Valovirta is collegium research fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku in Finland, and a senior lecturer in English at the same university; she is currently on a leave of absence. She is the author of Sexual Feelings. Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing Through Affect (2014, Rodopi) and the co-editor of Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture ‘Out of the Ordinary’ (2019, Brill). She has published articles in journals such as The Feminist Review, Sexuality and Culture, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, click HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk.

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate access requirements and other needs. Do not hesitate to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.

This seminar is co-hosted by CSWG and Atgender (the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation).

Join us for our final session of this year's Graduate Seminar Series on the topic of Women on the Screen

Papers:

University of Warwick - Lydia Brammer: Forgotten Melodrama: Girlhood and Relatability in Ayako Wakao’s Early Star Image

Universidad de Murcia - Lucia Celdran Noguera: Between feminism and dictatorship: TV adaptation of ‘Jane Eyre’ in England and Spain in the 1970s”

University of Stirling - Rachel Abreu: Instagram, Beauty and the Role of Religious, Ethnic Background

Microsoft Teams Link:
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If you have any questions about the events in the series, please email us via cswgseminarseries@gmail.com.

This workshop/roundtable brings together a collective of scholars who are actively involved in policing research, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, and the intricate relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. The event aims to foster a supportive community and provide a platform for researchers who employ embodiment and ethnographic methodologies in their investigative approaches. The event is open to researchers, scholars, and individuals interested in the intersections of gender, policing, and ethnographic research. It welcomes academics from various disciplines, graduate students, and practitioners engaged in related research areas.

The workshop encourages discussions and presentations on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Intersectionality and Policing
• Ethical Challenges in Policing
• Research Sensory Methods and Police Practices
• Human-Animal Interactions in Policing

To find out more about this event, and register for it, click here.

We are delighted to announce that Shelf, a queer comedy duo, is doing a performance of their hit show “Hair” at the Warwick Arts Centre, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and the Department of Sociology.

The show is taking place on October 11^th at 7.45 in the Warwick Arts Centre Studio. The event listing can be found here. You can find out more about Shelf here and read reviews of “Hair” here and here.

You are warmly invited to the following event:

“Disavowals and Distinctions: Knowing Feminist Subjects in Social Media Culture"
featuring Dr Akane Kanai (Monash University)

Abstract:
For young people in Anglo-American societies, debates over identity politics and social justice have never seemingly been more accessible, yet simultaneously fraught with risk. As celebrities continually dance with the risks and rewards of being deemed ‘woke’ in the current social media climate (Sobande, Kanai and Zeng 2022), scholars have observed this social justice resurgence to both hold possibilities for a more vigorous democracy as well as reproducing aspirational neoliberal tropes. Drawing on an ongoing empirical project located in Australia involving 50 young feminists aged 18-28, this paper turns away from the understanding of online feminist culture as purely a space of activism, or static set of ideas and concepts that are simply ‘accessed’ or ‘revealed’. Utilising a framework whereby young people’s engagement with online social justice cultures are understood as knowledge cultures, I demonstrate how these cultures are highly affective, involving differing felt positions in connection with claims of knowledge and how they are made. I highlight participants’ practices of analysis, critique, and expertise in connection with celebrity figures, ideas and texts as a means of struggles over value creation and attribution. I aim to show how class contours these cultures through affective relations of proximity and distance.

Author Bio:
Akane Kanai is a senior research fellow at Monash University. Her research investigates the shaping of contemporary identity through the politics of mediated cultures, particularly online and popular culture. In 2021, she was awarded a Discovery Early Career Award Fellowship by the Australian Research Council to undertake a three-year project on the impact of everyday online feminisms on young people. Her work can be found in journals such as Feminist Theory, Feminist Media Studies, the Journal of Communication, and Cultural Studies. Her monograph, Gender, relatability and Digital Culture: Managing affect, intimacy and value is published by Palgrave (2019).

This seminar is free and open to all. You do not need to register in advance.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, please let us know by contacting us on cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk 

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list.

A two-day event that aims to offer a space for women in academia to share strategies and stories of seeking a career in academia. We have identified six key themes – positionality, networking and leadership, publishing, feminist methodology, fieldwork and challenges of under-representation – that we believe speak to many shared experiences. We hope to encourage greater solidarity and sharing between women from different departments.

This event is open to all who are interested in these topics, including cis women, trans women, and non-binary people, and to academics across career stages. PhD students and Early Career Researchers are particularly welcome.

Event organisers:

- WIPS challenges the under-representation of women in the field. It provides a safe space for women to discuss gendered experiences, identify gender inequity issues, give feedback and increase transparency in PAIS concerning gender inequity issues.

- CSWG is a centre of research and teaching in women's, gender and feminist studies, based at the University of Warwick. It aims to provide a focus for research and teaching on women and gender in the university and to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary feminist research.

To find out more about this event and register for it, click here.

For any questions about this event, please email the WIPS team at wipsresource@warwick.ac.uk

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Tuesdays 9.30am - 12.30pm.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• Tuesday, November 21, 9.30 – 12.30 in Wolfson Research Exchange, room 1 (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please emails us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk 
• Tuesday, November 28, 9.30 – 12.30 in S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• Tuesday, December , 9.30 – 12.30 in E1.02 (the Gillian Rose Room, Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Tuesdays 9.30am - 12.30pm.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• Tuesday, November 21, 9.30 – 12.30 in Wolfson Research Exchange, room 1 (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please emails us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk 
• Tuesday, November 28, 9.30 – 12.30 in S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• Tuesday, December , 9.30 – 12.30 in E1.02 (the Gillian Rose Room, Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Tuesdays 9.30am - 12.30pm.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• Tuesday, November 21, 9.30 – 12.30 in Wolfson Research Exchange, room 1 (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please emails us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk 
• Tuesday, November 28, 9.30 – 12.30 in S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• Tuesday, December , 9.30 – 12.30 in E1.02 (the Gillian Rose Room, Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Hot Choc with SocSoc, Tuesday 5 December, Sociology Common Room, 3.00-5.00 pm

Hosted by the Sociology Society, 'Hot Choc with SocSoc' is a fundraising event for the Sociology Ball. All students and members of staff are welcome to purchase some hot chocolate, cookies, gingerbreads and cupcakes. Do pop in if you can!

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

You are warmly invited to the following event, taking place online via Teams:

“Sexual Violence as a Strategy of Enclosure: an Anti-Origin Story"
featuring Prof. Alison Phipps (Newcastle University)

Abstract:

This paper explores a range of stories that aim to account for the origins of gender domination and sexual violence. First, sociobiological thought experiments which centre ‘sexed’ bodily differences in a primitive ‘state of nature’. Secondly, sociocultural theories of how gendered subjectification occurs within kinship systems through the entry into language. Thirdly, socioeconomic analyses of women’s reproductive capacities as a source of exchange value in agricultural societies. Fourthly, sociopolitical narratives highlighting the process of state formation. I ask: what do these different stories offer our understanding of sexual violence? Both the sociobiological and sociocultural stories ultimately present accounts of oppression without exploitation: in other words, they tell us how sexual violence occurs but not why, explaining gender domination in terms of itself and collapsing into a biological essentialism which is arguably colonial in provenance. Using the socioeconomic and sociopolitical origin stories, however, sexual violence can be theorised as a strategy of enclosure, which treats women’s bodies as territory to be used for economic ends, or to be conquered as part of political projects. This is not offered as a definitive account or alternative origin story, but as an attempt to understand what sexual violence might do within shifting and fluid social relations at points when hierarchy emerges out of difference.

Speaker Bio:

Alison Phipps is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University and author of Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism. Her forthcoming book is Personal Business: sexual violence in racial capitalism.

This online seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page. 

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list. 

In this informal online session for PhD students and Early Career Researchers, Prof. Alison Phipps will facilitate a discussion on some of the challenges and dilemmas of academic careers. This will be conducted via a Jamboard which you are all encouraged to post on in advance. Questions and comments may then be grouped for discussion and everything will be shared anonymously unless people choose to reveal their identities. Ask and share anything you like - Chatham House rules!

Speaker Bio: Alison Phipps is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University and author of Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism. Her forthcoming book is Personal Business: sexual violence in racial capitalism.

This seminar is free and open to all PhDs and ECRs at Warwick, but advance registration is required (and participant numbers may be capped if we receive too many registrations).

To register for a place, click HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk.

In the registration form, you will be able to indicate access requirements and other needs. Do not hesitate to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation.

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

Join us for a discussion of Silvana Tapia Tapia's book Feminism, Violence Against Women and Law Reform on Thursday, February 22nd at 12.00-2.00 at Warwick Law School (room S2.09, 2nd floor Warwick Law). The seminar will include an introduction by the author, Dr. Tapia Tapia (Birmingham Law) and will be followed by a discussion by Dr. Solange Mouthaan (Warwick Law) and Paula Hollstein-Barria (Doctoral Researcher, Warwick Law). Lunch will be provided and the event is open to all.

This is a CSWG event organised in collaboration with the Criminal Justice Centre at Warwick Law School.

You are warmly invited to the following event, taking place online via Teams:

"Building Feminist Solidarity against Genocide in Gaza"

This panel event will bring together:

• Dr Islah Jad (Associate Professor in Political Science and faculty member of the Institute of Women's Studies, Birzeit University): The genocidal victim
• Dr Rania Jawad (Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and Director of the Institute of Women'S Studies, Birzeit University): "The details that we live in this war kill us a million times more than the war itself"
• Reem Al-Botmeh (Academic Researcher and Acting director for the Institute of Law, Birzeit University): Beyond killing: Different structures of genocide
• Dr Ashjan Ajour (Palestinian scholar and Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social, Historical and Political Studies, University of Wolverhampton) – Discussant

This online seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page. 

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list. 

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

You are warmly invited to the following event, taking place online via Teams:

"Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine. Hear Our Voices"
a book talk featuring Dr Maryna Shevtsova (KU Leuven)

Abstract:

The book "Feminist Perspective on Russia's War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices" (out this month) aims to give voices to feminist scholars from Ukraine and the wider Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. Recognizing the long-neglected nature of the war evolving since 2014, this volume offers a compilation of essays contributed by scholars spanning diverse disciplines and practitioners alike. Employing a wide array of data sources and methodologies—encompassing archival research, media analysis, legal examination, surveys, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and feminist autoethnography—this book undertakes a broader exploration of how gender norms have been transgressed and cultural expectations of womanhood and manhood have evolved within the context of Ukraine from 2014–2023. Representing an early collaborative effort among Ukrainian and CEE feminist scholars, this compilation aims to showcase locally nurtured perspectives on Russia's invasion of Ukraine to a worldwide audience, with the overarching goal of sparking the development of fresh methodologies and approaches that can untangle the complex interconnection between gender and warfare.

During this seminar, the editor, Maryna Shevtsova, will discuss the book and focus in more detail on her own chapter, Untold Stories: Experiences of Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Refugees in the Context of Russia’s Military Invasion

Speaker Bio:

Maryna Shevtsova is a Senior post-doctoral FWO Fellow at KU Leuven (2023/2026). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Humboldt University, Berlin (2017), an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University, Budapest (2013), and is a Fulbright (University of Florida 2018/19) and Swedish Institute (Lund University 2020/2021) Alumna. Prior to starting her work at KU Leuven, she was an MSCA Co-Fund EUTOPIA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2021/2023). Shevtsova is a co-founder of Equal Opportunities Platform, a Dnipro-based Ukrainian NGO working towards combating discrimination and promoting gender equality. In 2022, she received the Emma Goldman Award for her work as a feminist scholar and human rights activist. Her research interests include LGBTQ rights and activism in Central and Eastern Europe, queer migration, and anti-gender movements. Her recent publications include the monograph LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey Exporting Europe? (Routledge 2021) and an edited volume (with Radzhana Buyantueva) on LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). She is also the editor of Feminist Perspectives of Russia's War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices (upcoming with Lexington Books, February 2024).

This online seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page. 

This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. If you wish to receive information about CSWG events, please subscribe to our mailing list. 

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

The CSWG warmly invites you to a screening of El tiempo de la hormiga (Time for Caring) followed by a discussion with Dr. Alethia Fdez. de la Reguera (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) & Visiting Scholar, Warwick Law School) and the documentary’s director Stephanie Brewster.

The screening and discussion will take place on Wednesday 13^th of March at 2.00-4.00pm in room S0.52 (Social Sciences).

The documentary, which has won 14 awards at international festivals, reflects on questions of work, caregiving, and gender inequalities in Mexico. It is around 45 minutes long and it will be screened with English subtitles. This event is free and open to all.

Documentary Synopsis:

Set in Mexico, ‘Time for Caring’ is a documentary that follows the daily life of ten women of varying ages and social backgrounds during their everyday activities, in which caregiving work is always involved. The film explores how caregiving and household tasks are predominantly assigned to women, which ultimately leads to social and gender inequalities by impacting their educational and employment opportunities. The testimonies and experiences of these protagonists highlight the absence of the State in the co-responsibility of caregiving tasks.

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications

Do you have an article to finish or PhD chapter to write? Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on research? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's new structured writing sessions. The sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays 10.00 - 17.00.

Based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, sessions will be facilitated and divided into a series of strict fixed timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. For more details on how the sessions will run, please see below.

These sessions are open to both staff and students from across the University of Warwick. You do not need to register in advance – just turn up on the day.

Please note that each week we will meet in a different venue, as follows:

• January 11 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• January 18 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3^rd floor – you will need your staff/PhD student card to enter. If you want to attend but you’re not a member of staff or PhD student, please email us in advance on m.d.m.pereira@warwick.ac.uk)
• January 25 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE AN EARLIER END TIME: 14.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL HAVE A LATER START TIME: 11.30 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room) You are very welcome to come to the Wolfson Research Exchange earlier and work at one of the desks in the open space until we start the session.
• February 8 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 15 - S0.52 (Social Sciences Building)
• February 22 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• February 29 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)
• March 7 - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library, 3rd floor - see information above about access to this room)
• March 14 - S2.77 (Social Sciences Building)

If you have any questions about these sessions, please email us on cswg@warwick.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The CSWG Team

Plans for the Sessions

We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance' so you’ll be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged.

To get the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake the majority of reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

European nation-building and colonial expansion has always relied on the regulation of reproductive labour and the hierarchical categorisation of bodies and forms of family-making. The stigmatisation of mothers was and remains a central strategy to govern minoritised groups under the modern European ideological framework. Yet, the research agendas that seek to address this (e.g. SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective 1997; Gumbs et al. 2016; Ross and Solinger 2017) are disproportionately focused on North America and to a lesser extent the Global South. There is a dire need for research spaces interrogating the European roots of antinatalist policies and giving visibility to minority mothers’ everyday forms of resistance in the region. 

The Radical Mothering Research Collective is one attempt to redress this imbalance. The Collective: 

• draws inspiration from scholarship that focuses on mothering (diverse and fluctuating everyday praxis, performed by a diversity of people regardless of reproductive role or gender identity) rather than motherhood (an oppressive, cisheteropatriarchal institution);  
• defines as ‘radical’ those everyday acts of mothering which occur in unexpected sites (on the streets, across borders, in and around carceral facilities), take unexpected forms (queer, community, non-biological), or defy antinatalist policies in their very existence; 
• rejects an individualist and neoliberal framework for understanding and undermining colonial logics. 

To launch the Collective, we are organising a conference on “Radical Mothering in Europe” held at the University of Warwick on 26th April 2024.

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications

The seminar series aims to:

• Foster discussions on questions of/around gender and feminist studies
• Provide a safe and comfortable space for students to present their research
• Create an opportunity to fine tune presentation skills and conference presentations/possible publications