Highlights from the Gender institute's busy Gendering the Social Sciences public events programme over the past couple of years.
2012 Highlights
Astrida Neimanis Research Seminar (2 May 2012)|
Astrida Neimanis is the MSc Gender and MSc Gender (Research) Convenor at the Gender Institute for 2011-12. We were excited to host her research seminar Thinking with Water: Feminist Theory and an Aqueous Imaginary on 2 May.
Amber Jacobs Research Seminar (14 Mar 2012)
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Amber Jacobs, Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck and author of On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother presented her research to the Gender Institute, dealing with Todd Haynes' television version of Mildred Pierce and the Maternal Object.
LSE Literary Festival - 'Owen Jones and the Chavs'
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We marked the LSE Literary Festival 2012 with a panel discussion iwth Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, Sue Christoforu, policy analyst and campaigner and Professor Mary Evans, on Thursday 1 March.
Beverley Skeggs Public Lecture (29 Feb 2012)|
We welcomed Professor Beverley Skeggs who gave her first Gender Institute public lecture at LSE. Her paper Rethinking Respectability: returning to value and ideology? was chaird by the Gender Institute's own Dr Sadie Wearing.
Jeff Hearn Research Seminar (20 Feb 2012)| 
Jeff Hearn appeared at the GI to give his research seminar The Political Category of "Men" in Activism, Policy and Theorising on Monday 20 February. The seminar was chaired by the Gender Institute's Dr Marsha Henry.
Susan Rudy Research Seminar (15 Feb 2012)|
Professor Susan Rudy presented her recent work based on the poetry of Caroline Bergvall in a research seminar on Wednesday 15 February. Professor Rudy is Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute for Lent Term 2012.
Shirin M. Rai Public Lecture (6 Feb 2012)|
The Gender Institute and the Department of Government hosted Shirin M. Rai on Monday 6 February for her public lecture Social Reproduction and Depletion: Mapping Gendered Harm. Professor Rai is Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute for Lent Term 2012.
Michael Kimmel Public Lecture (16 Jan 2012)
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Our first public lecture of 2012 was given by Professor Michael Kimmel, one of the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. Title: Gender and Men's Studies: Peril or Promise?
2011 Highlights
Anne Kovalainen & Seppo Poutanen Seminar (7 Dec 2011)|
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As Visiting Fellows during Michaelmas Term 2011, the Gender Institute hosted Anne Kovalainen and Seppo Poutanen who led their research seminar Gendering Titanium Oxide, hosted by Dr Ania Plomien.
Carolyn Pedwell Research Seminar (9 Nov 2011)|
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Carolyn Pedwell joined us on 9 November 2011 from Newcastle University to give a research seminar entitled (Self)-Transformation through Transportation: Empathy, Neoliberalism and International Development.
Melissa Wright Public Lecture (24 Oct 2011)|
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Melissa Wright joined us from Penn State University for her first Gender Institute public lecture on Mon 24 October 2011. Co-hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment.
Framing Intersectionality (19 Oct 2011) |
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The Gender Institute hosted Helma Lutz and Kathy Davis for their research seminar Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multifaceted Concept in Gender Studies, chaired by Mary Evans.
Maxine Molyneux Orientation Lecture (28 Sep 2011)
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Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology kicked off our 2011-12 Gendering the Social Sciences events programme on 28 September 2011 with her lecture Neoliberalism in Retreat: A New Deal for Latin American Women?
40 Years On Where are LGBT rights?|
The Gay Liberation Front's 40th Anniversary Conference was co-hosted by the Gender Institute on 19 and 20 May 2011.
Michelle Bachelet Public Lecture|
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Michelle Bachelet, UN Woman Executive Director and former president of Chile, held a public lecture co-hosted by the Gender Institute on 17 May 2011.
Gurreiras Female Futebol Players Juggling Roles and Creating Space in Brazil|
GI alumna Caitlin Fisher and documentary photographer Adrienne Grunwald presented their research project on women's football in Brazil.
Nick Mai, NORMAL in Discussion|
NIck Mai appeared at the Gender Institute to present his sex work film trilogy NORMAL which was followed by a discussion amongst the audience.
Jacqueline Rose Discusses Rosa Luxemburg|
Professor Jacqueline Rose spoke about Rosa Luxemburg in her first Gender Institute public lecture Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently: Rosa Luexmburg for Our Times.
New Directions in Gender Research|
Gender Institute Doctoral students Marina Franchi, Alexandra Hyde and Joanne Kalogeras presented their research in a Gender Institute research seminar on Monday 9 May 2011. Click above for more details.
Gender and Poverty in the 21st Century|
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Diane Elson, Nancy Folbre and Maxine Molyneux discussed themes and departures from The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty (ed. Sylvia Chant) on 11 March 2011.
Diversity Work as a Phenomenological Practice|
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Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths, gave a lecture co-hosted by the Gender Institute and Department of Media and Communications on 9 February 2011.
Mary Evans - Gender, Words and Power|
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Mary Evans gave her Gender Institute hosted Centennial Lecture at the LSE on 17 Jan 2011. Her area of enquiry was the meanings of inequality at a time of Neo-Liberalism.
2010 Highlights
Ranjana Khanna Public Lectures|
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Ranjana Khanna, from Duke University visited the Gender Institute on 6 and 8 December to give a two-lecture series entitled Asylum and Unbelonging.
Anne Phillips Orientation Public Lecture 2010|
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Anne Phillips kicked off the Gender Institute's Gendering the Social Sciences Public Lecture Series 2010-11 with her lecture It's My Body and I'll Do What I Like With It: Bodies as possessions and objects.