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Recordings and Slides from Past CSWG Events

CSWG Graduate Seminar Series

Audio recordings of some of the presentations given as part of this series are available here.


Knowing Feminist Subjects in Social Media Culture (October 2023)

This talk by Akane Kanai explores practices of analysis, critique, and expertise in online feminist cultures, analysing them as a means of struggles over value creation and attribution.

You can access an audio recording of this event.


Shifting our Gaze from Individuals to Structures - to Where? The Strange Feeling Structures of University Work (May 2023)

This public lectureLink opens in a new window by Mona Mannevuo and Elina Valovirta explores academic time management discourses as an affective phenomenon in the neoliberal university.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Free Speech, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Gender Campaign Against Gender Studies – How to Respond and When Not to Respond (December 2022)

This public lectureLink opens in a new window by Julian Honkasalo asks how gender studies students and scholars can respond to the increasing trend of anti-gender campaigning that is rooted in disseminating false information and informal argumentative fallacies.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Rage, Guilt, Shame, Depression, Exhaustion: An Index of Intersectional Feeling (November 2022)

This public lectureLink opens in a new window by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto discusses articulations of rage, guilt, shame, depression, and exhaustion in feminist studies, in order to examine what has become, as the two authors argue, feminism’s good object and methodology of this era: intersectionality.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Athena Swan: New Challenges and Ongoing Dilemmas (June 2022)

This workshop reflected critically on the achievements and limitations of Athena Swan and other equality schemes in contemporary UK higher education..

It featured the following speakers:

Video and audio recordings of some of the interventions are available - click on the links above to access them.


Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (June 2022)

This public lectureLink opens in a new window by Srila Roy maps a shifting terrain of feminist and queer politics in India with the liberalisation of the Indian economy.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Thinking Queerly About Failure (March 2022)

This workshop problematised the relationship between failure and queer subjectivities in times of neoliberalism.

It featured the following speakers:

  • Kat Gupta: Failing better
  • Boka En: 'Together, we reflect and learn': Failure, shame, and performing progressive subjectivities

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Emotions, Hashtag Feminism and Consciousness-Raising: a History of Feminist Radicalness and Co-option (June 2021)

This talk by Gabriela Loureiro explores the significance of emotional engagements for feminist projects and the potentials and limitations of hashtag feminism for consciousness-raising.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Online Feminisms and Online Knowledge Cultures (May 2021)

This talk by Akane Kanai explores 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.

You can access a video recording and an audio recording of this event.


Doing Feminist Pedagogy in Contemporary Universities: Old Dilemmas and New Challenges (March 2019)

This workshop reflected 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 featured the following speakers:

Audio recordings of some of the interventions are available - click on the title of the talk to listen to the recording.


Trans and Intersex Rights in Health and Education - Discourse, Power and Possibility (December 2018)

This eventLink opens in a new window, held on December 5th 2018, was organised to celebrate the publication of Ruth Pearce's book Understanding Trans HealthLink opens in a new window, and centred around the question: How are trans and intersex lives defined, managed and contested in healthcare, education, and community settings?

The symposium featured talks by:

Audio recordings of some of the interventions are available - click on the title of the talk to listen to the recording.


Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence in relation to the Middle East? (November 2018)

This public lectureLink opens in a new window by Nadje Al-Ali charts her trajectories and dilemmas as a feminist activist/academic when researching, writing and talking about gender-based violence with reference to the Middle East - specifically in relation to Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon.

The lecture was held on November 2nd, 2018, with Dr Nicola PrattLink opens in a new window as discussant. An audio recording of this event is available hereLink opens in a new window.


Feminism, Queer and Neoliberalism: Critique, Complicity and Complexity (June 2018)

This symposium brought together academics, activists and artists from a range of disciplines to discuss the relationship between feminism, queer and neoliberalism. We considered how feminism and queer have resisted neoliberalism, and how feminism and queer have been complicit with it, but we also wanted to go beyond that conventional binary framing and engage with the many complexities of that dynamic relationship.

Audio recordings and slides for some of the interventions in this event are available below.


Certifying Equality? a Critical Conversation on Athena SWAN and Equality Accreditation (February 2017)

This was a one-day event looking at the challenges and opportunities afforded by Athena SWAN. On this page you can find materials from the event, as well as the original promotional information.


Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture, by Deborah L. Steinberg (June 2016)

This was the launch event for the book Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture (June 14th, 2016). It featured talks by Elizabeth Ettorre, Stuart Murray and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.

You can access a video recording of this event.


Gendering the Arab Spring (October 2011)

This workshop, sponsored by CSWG and the Department of Politics and International Studies, was held on October 28th, 2011. Some of the questions asked by the workshop, included: How significant is gender in understanding the "Arab spring"? What do Arab women hope to achieve from their participation in the uprisings? What is the future of women’s rights and gender relations in the aftermath of dictatorship?

Video recordings of the workshop presentations are available here.


CSWG Not Very Far Away Days

CSWG regularly organises “Not Very Far Away Days” where staff and students at Warwick can present their ongoing research. This page is an archive of research posters produced for past Away Days.