Seminar Series 2006-07
Spring term 2007
Wednesday January 31st
Prita Jhn, Legal Activist in India
Nyayagrah: Resisting legal subversion, coercion and institutional communalism in Gujarat
Wednesday February 7th
Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics, University of Warwick
Gender and political representation: Women in the Indian parliament
Wednesday March 7th
Joanna Liddle, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick
Social Identity and Representation in UK Politics: why there are no Mrs (or Mr) Pritchards
Summer Term 2007
Wednesday 2nd May
Khursheed Wadia, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick
Set up for failure? The French gender parity reforms
Tuesday 8th May
Joint Seminar with the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies
Lynne Pettinger, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
Aesthetic Labour and the Relationship between Work, Connsumption and Commodities
5-7 pm, R0.14 Ramphal Building (please note venue)
Friday 18th May
Lydia Lewis, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
Contested identities: exploring the relationship between the user/survivor movement and feminism in the mental health sphere
2.00 - 3.30, R3.25 Ramphal Building (please note venue)
Wednesday 23rd May
Jacqueline Labbe, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
A woman wrote the first lyrical ballads: Charlotte Smith in 1797
Unless otherwise stated, seminars take place at 5.00 p.m. in the Gillian Rose seminar room, Ramphal Building, University of Warwick.