Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Events
Our forthcoming events are listed below.
You can find information about our past events here (2016 - present) and here (2000 - 2015).
For the full list of speakers in our Graduate Seminar series (2004 - present), click here.
For video and audio recordings of past CSWG events, click here.
CSWG Graduate Seminar - 'Media & Literature'
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"