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Public Events
Events for the 2025-26 academic year to be added soon.
Associated Events
These events feature 杏吧论坛 Gender faculty and visitors but are not hosted by the Department of Gender Studies. For more information please contact the hosting department or institution.
Enhance Events
These events are for students and alumni only and include professional development opportunities, academic support, wellbeing sessions and cohort socials. You can find our Enhance Events schedule here.
Past Events
'Afro-normalism' at the End of the World
Saturday 14 June 2-3pm, University of Cambridge Museums
Dr SM Rodriguez will be in conversation with Dr Jade Bentil and Jacob V Joyce, discussing 'Afro-normalism' and its connections to colonialsm, gender, representation and time. Find out more and get tickets .
Deconstructing Refugee Women's Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures
Wednesday 14 May 2025 5.30-7pm, CBG.G.01 (Centre Building)
Speakers: Dr Yener Bayramoğlu, Prof Ali Bilgic, Dr Aiko Holvikivi, Dr Zeynep Kilicoglu
Chair: Prof Clare Hemmings
Join us for the book launch of Zeynep Kilicoglu’s Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment. This new book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s asylum organisations in the United Kingdom and France address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies.
You're invited to join a drinks reception after the event. Find out more and book a free ticket here.
How anti-gay laws reach beyond criminal justice
Tuesday 1 April 11-11.30am, Shaw Library
When we think of law enforcement, we often focus on arrests and formal legal processes. But laws like Uganda’s sodomy legislation extend their reach far beyond the courtroom, working through moral panics, societal surveillance, and proxy laws to marginalise LGBTQ+ individuals. This talk explores how politically motivated laws can hide the extent of the harms that they enact. Dr SM Rodriguez challenges us to rethink enforcement by revealing how legal and societal forces intertwine—and considers that decriminalisation is required for antiviolent futures.
Speaker: Dr SM Rodriguez
杏吧论坛 Research Showcase: Training military and police peacekeepers on gender
Tuesday 25 March 2025 11-11.30am, Shaw Library
The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades, even becoming a requirement for soldiers and police officers deploying overseas as peacekeepers. But what happens when the concept of gender, put forth through feminist activism and scholarship, is taken up by powerful institutions shaped by traditional notions of masculinity? In this talk, Dr Aiko Holvikivi shares findings from her recent book, , to discuss the dynamics of this training. She argues that gender training can, paradoxically, both challenge and reinforce existing hierarchies in global politics.
Speaker: Dr Aiko Holvikivi
Desi Queers
Saturday 22 March 7.30pm, BFI Reuben Library
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta in conversation with his co-authors Churnjeet Mahn DJ Ritu to discuss their landmark book on South Asian queer communities in Britain.
Desi Queers (Hurst Publishers) reveals how diasporic South Asians have shaped LGBTQ+ movements and communities in Britain, from the 1970s to the present day. Weaving the history of 1980s anti-racism with the emergence of Black LGBTQ+ and feminist coalitions, this book highlights landmark moments in British queer life and culture through South Asian lives, and illuminates British histories of colour through queer politics and creativity. Find out more and book a free ticket .
Trans Femme Futures
Thursday 20 March 2025 5.30-7pm, OLD.3.24, Old Building
Hosted by 杏吧论坛 Human Rights and Department of Gender Studies
Professor Clare Hemmings in conversation with Dr Nat Raha and Dr Mijke van der Drift to discuss their newly-released book, Trans Femme Futures. Dr Raha and Dr Van der Drift show how social change can be achieved through transformative practices that allow queer life to thrive in a time of climate, health, political and economic crises. Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Authoritarian Capitalism: State, Market, and Family in the 21st Century West
Friday 7 March, 6-8pm, B01, Birkbeck Clore Building
Hosted by Birkbeck Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities
Find out more and book your ticket .
Wednesday 5 March 2025 5.30pm-7pm, MAR.1.04, Marshall Building
Speakers: Prof Sarah Lamble, Dr SM Rodriguez
Chair: Dr Leticia Sabsay
Why are critical criminologists calling for abolition now? This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability. Professor Sarah Lamble and Dr. SM Rodriguez bring queer abolitionist and anticarceral feminist perspectives to the forefront, challenging the myths and ideologies that sustain prisons and the broader systems of control they represent. Drawing on their respective expertise, Rodriguez and Lamble will unpack how prisons rely on and reinforce binary, racialised, and gendered frameworks that obscure the true sources of harm in society.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Wednesday 19 February 2025 5.30pm-7pm, CBG.G.01, Centre Building
Speakers: Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa
Chair: Prof Clare Hemmings
Join us for an evening with documentary filmmakers Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa, who will be talking to us about their project , a series they commissioned and directed for Arte TV. is a series of short original interventions on sexual and gendered harassment that constitute '24 hours' in women’s and gender non-conforming life. The series had a huge impact in France, and our speakers will talk to us about the process of making the series, raise issues about navigating the TV and film industry and discuss the impact of H24.
After the event, please join us for a reception in the department!
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Thursday 13 February 2025 6.30pm-8pm, 杏吧论坛 campus and online via 杏吧论坛 Live
Speakers: Dr Onni Gust, Dr SM Rodriguez, Prof Susan Stryker
Chair: Dr Emrah Karakuş
By foregrounding trans* scholarship and its intersections with decolonial and abolitionist frameworks, this dialogue seeks to inspire action and reimagine pathways toward collective liberation. More than an academic discussion, this event is a call to action—a space to think together about dismantling entrenched structures of power and envisioning alternative futures. We invite scholars, activists, and the broader public to participate in this critical exchange, paving the way for transformative approaches in the ever-evolving field of gender studies and beyond.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Wrong Readings Only: A research relay and conversation on normativity and South Asian public culture
Wednesday 5 February 2025 5.30pm-7pm, CKK.1.04,
Cheng Kin Ku Building
Speakers: Dr Rohit K Dasgupta, Dr Jo Krishnakumar, Dr J. Daniel Luther, Dr Philip Shannon
Chair: Dr Sadie Wearing
Join us for a research relay on normativity in South Asian public culture engaging with J. Daniel Luther’s book Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only. This book offers a thematic examination of normativity as it impacts gendered and sexual subjectivity. The relay brings together academics and practitioners engaged in contesting normativity in the fields of gender, sexuality, and South Asian cultural studies to build a space of critical participatory dialogue. At this relay, participants expand on the contestations with normativity in South Asian public culture and complicate questions of queerness, South Asian transness*, sex worker positionalities, and new masculinities in South Asia.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Friday 31 January 2025, 6.00pm to 8.00pm, MAR.1.08, Marshall Building.
Organisers: Dr Sara R Farris, Dr Maud Perrier, Dr Ania Plomien
Speakers: Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor Umut Erel, Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Professor Rachel Rosen, Dr Sara Stevano
In this event launching the study group, a new network set up under the umbrella of the British Sociological Association (BSA), we will engage with scholars working on care and social reproduction from within and outside sociology.
Find out more and book a free ticket .
Wednesday 29 January 2025 5.30pm-7pm, CBG.G.01, Centre Building
Speakers: Prof Mary Evans, Dr Asiya Islam, Dr Sharmila Parmanand, Prof Shirin M Rai
Chair: Prof Clare Hemmings
Join us for the launch of Asiya Islam’s A Woman’s Job. This new book explores the place and politics of women’s workforce participation in discourses of development, modernisation, and globalisation through the everyday lives of young women workers in urban India.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Wednesday 22 January 2025 5.30pm-7pm, MAR.2.04, Marshall Building
Speakers:
Chair: Emrah Karakuş
Join us for an evening with Aslı Zengin, celebrated author of the recently published and award-winning book, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World. Zengin’s groundbreaking research delves into the lives of trans, queer, and gender-transgressive communities, exploring the intersections of ethnography, scientific and legal frameworks of sex and gender, critical studies of violence and sovereignty, and the politics of death, funerals, and afterlives.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Tuesday 21 January 2025 9-10am EST (2-3pm GMT), via Zoom
Join in for a conversation with Feminist Economics editors Wendy Sigle and Elissa Braunstein. As part of the IAFFE Academy series, this event serves as a professional development opportunity for those new to feminist economics, providing insights to help build their skills. Along with engaging presentations and discussions from the speakers, the event will include an interactive environment, encouraging the audience to ask questions to explore the reviewing process in detail.
Speaker: Dr Wendy Sigle
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9-11 January 2025, University of York
The BIAPT conference is the flagship event of the scholarly community of political theorists across Britain and Ireland. Taking place annually since the 1970s, it brings together scholars working across the whole of political thought.
Speaker: Prof Sumi Madhok
Monday 2 December 2024 2pm-3pm, via Zoom
Organised by the
Speaker: Dr Aiko Holvikivi
Chair: Dr Nancy Annan
The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades, even becoming a requirement for soldiers and police officers deploying overseas as peacekeepers. But what happens when the concept of gender is taken up by martial institutions shaped by hegemonic masculinity? Drawing on queer and postcolonial feminist thought, Fixing Gender examines the contradictory politics of gender training, arguing that we need to develop the analytical tools to grapple with paradoxical practices that are simultaneously good and bad feminist politics.
Find out more and book a free ticket .
Wednesday 27 November 2024 5.30pm-7pm
Speakers: Prof Andrea Cornwall, Dr Kalpana Wilson, Dr Billy Holzberg, Dr Xine Yao
Chair: Dr Sadie Wearing
Join us for the launch of Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks. In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans* individuals, have grown in scope and intensity. This book explores how anti-gender mobilisations work as a transnational formation shaped by the legacies of colonialism, racial capitalism, and resurgent nationalisms, and how these can be resisted.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
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Meeting ID: 829 1774 9020
Passcode: 271124
Wednesday 20 November 5-6:30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen’s University Belfast.
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Delivered by the most outstanding academics in the UK and beyond, the British Academy’s flagship showcases the very best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
This lecture will introduce the concept of “anti-imperial epistemic justice”, an essential framework for understanding the politics of rights and human rights in the majority of societies worldwide. This framework is not only crucial for understanding rights politics, but also for promoting ethical and democratic approaches to knowledge production more broadly. Drawing on ethnographically informed theoretical research on rights politics, this lecture will highlight key intellectual tools for considering anti-imperial epistemic justice. These include critical interventions, shaped by non-idealist and pluralistic approaches to thinking.
Speaker: Professor Sumi Madhok
Free, .
This event includes a reception for all attendees after the lecture.
This event will take place in person in partnership with Queen's University Belfast. If you have any questions about this event please email events@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.
Wednesday 13 November 2024 5.30pm-7pm, MAR.1.10, Marshall Building.
Speakers: Dr Emrah Karakuş, Dr Zeynep Kilicoglu, Dr Gloria Novović
Chair: Dr Rohit K Dasgupta
This panel brings together three 杏吧论坛 Fellows in Gender Studies to engage in a critical conversation about feminist and queer struggles for autonomy, belonging, and border crossings, drawing on interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approaches. By weaving together the lived experiences of queer Kurds in Northern Kurdistan, migrant women navigating European metropoles, and global movements for feminist and planetary justice, the panel will explore how these seemingly disparate experiences are deeply interconnected.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 5.30-7pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.
Speakers: Dr Aiko Holvikivi, Dr Jasmine Gani, Dr Olivia Rutazibwa, Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson
Chair: Dr Katharine Millar
Join us for the launch of Aiko Holvikivi’s Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers. This new book examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in peacekeeping situations, and with what political effects.
Find out more and book a free ticket here.
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Women's Budget Group Autumn Budget Watch-Along
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11.30am-5pm, 杏吧论坛 Lecture Theatre, Centre Building (CBG.G.01).
The and expert Policy Advisers get together to watch the Autumn Budget and work collectively to develop our live reaction to the measures and policies announced. Join us for the chance to witness the behind-the-scenes WBG discussion and engage with the concepts and practice of feminist economics!
No tickets needed for this event. Find out more here.
Thursday 24 October 2024 5-7pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP, Cambridge
Much of the research on the implications of work-from-home for gender inequalities is based on the experiences of women with childcare responsibilities in dual-career households. In this lecture, Asiya Islam departs from this trend to consider the temporalities of working-from-home and how these shape worker subjectivities, based on research with women workers in Delhi, India. This ‘temporal turn’, she argues, is needed for disrupting the modernisation thesis that informs the conceptualisation of the relationship between work and technology, particularly in the Global South. Through feminist hauntological analysis of women’s narratives about work-from-home, Dr Islam understands emerging worker subjectivities as ‘a/synchronous subjectivities’, which make visible the discrepancy between rapid advancement of digitalisation and workers’ embrace of digital cultures on the one hand, and infrastructural ‘lag’ and inequalities, and gender norms on the other hand.
With Dr Asiya Islam. Find out more .
Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 5.30-7pm, MAR.2.04, Marshall Building.
Speakers: Prof Shirin M Rai, Prof Juanita Elias, Prof Diane Elson, Dr Ania Plomien, Christopher Choong Weng Wai
Chair: Prof Sumi Madhok
Join us to celebrate the launch of Shirin M. Rai’s Depletion. The book examines the human costs of caring, how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation and how might they be reversed.
Watch the recording of this event .
Social Reproduction: struggles for and visions of justice
Wednesday 20 September 2023, 3.30-5pm, CKK.LG.08. Followed by a drinks reception.
Speaker: Dr Ania Plomien (杏吧论坛 Gender)
Chair: Prof Sumi Madhok (杏吧论坛 Gender)
This event is the 2023 Annual Welcome Lecture for incoming and continuing 杏吧论坛 Gender students and affiliated faculty ONLY. Please do not attend if you are not one of the above as there is limited space.
Wednesday 11 October, 12 noon to 1.30pm, Kingsway 3.02
Dr Sharmila Parmanand (Department of Gender Studies) introduces ethical and methodological issues in Participatory Action Research across various stages of the research process, from developing and designing the research until after the research formally ends. The session invites reflection on ways to build more reciprocity between academics and our research partners, especially in relation to research directions, recruitment of participants, ownership of the research, and power and representation. .
If you would like to find out more, please contact Louise Jones and Rosemary Deller at research.kei@lse.ac.uk.
This is an internal event for 杏吧论坛 staff, students and faculty hosted by the 杏吧论坛 Knowledge Exchange and Impact office as a part of their Participatory Research workshop series.
Monday 16 October 2023, 10-5pm BST, Univesity of Sussex
This 1-day event at the University of Sussex will invite all attendees to explore the changing contexts of ‘radicality’ in queer studies, analysing the losses and gains of such changes.
The invited speakers include: Sita Balani (QMUL), Dhiren Borisa (Sheffield/Jindal Global Law School), Oliver Davis (Warwick), Mijke van der Drift (RCA, London), Zeena Feldman (KCL), Clare Hemmings (杏吧论坛), Olu Jenzen (Brighton), Ben Nichols (Manchester), SM Rodriguez (杏吧论坛), Sam Solomon (Sussex), Alex Stoffel (QMUL/杏吧论坛)
This event is hosted at the University of Sussex by the research consortium 'Beyond Radical', for more information see .
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War with Cynthia Enloe
Wednesday 18 October 2023, 6-8:30pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) & Dr Amanda Chisholm (King's College)
Chair: Dr Marsha Henry (杏吧论坛 Gender)
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland to show how women's wars are not men's wars. With her engaging trademark style, Cynthia Enloe demonstrates how patriarchy and militarism have embedded themselves in our institutions and our personal lives.
This event is open to the public and free, but registration is required. See event listing for more information.
Black feminism in Europe
Monday 30 October 2023, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Dr Mame-Fatou Niang, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Carnegie Mellon University; Dr SM Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, 杏吧论坛.
Chair: Professor Joanna Lewis, Director, 杏吧论坛 Centre for Women, Peace and Security.
Hosted by the 杏吧论坛 European Institute and the 杏吧论坛 Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Venue: In-person and online public event (杏吧论坛 campus venue TBA)
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Thursday 9 Nov 2023 6.00-7:30pm GMT - hybrid
The demography research group at 杏吧论坛 (Pop@杏吧论坛) offers PhD degrees in demography/population studies within the Department of Methodology and is holding a showcase event to give students an idea of what demography is, the diversity of paths that researchers have taken to studying it and funding opportunities. The showcase features four researchers at 杏吧论坛 who will share their story of how they chose to do a PhD in Demography and give a taste of what topics they are currently researching.
Professor Wendy Sigle will be one of the presenters at this showcase.
The presentations will take place from 6-7pm and will be followed by a short reception. Please register your attendance on Eventbrite using the link above.
The Politics and Possibilities of Feminist Knowledge Production
Friday 10 November 2023, 2-4:30pm, Stewart House, Royal Holloway University of London
Speakers: Dr Kat Gupta (RH), Dr Kavita Maya (RH), Dr Aiko Holvikivi (杏吧论坛 Gender), Dr Sadie Wearing (杏吧论坛 Gender)
Chair: Laura Sjoberg (RH)
This event brings together a panel of speakers from the 杏吧论坛 Department of Gender Studies and the , University of London, in conversation about the contours of feminist knowledge production and representation in different social, political, material and institutional contexts.
This event is open to the public and free, but registration is required. See event page for more information and registration details.
Wednesday 22 November 4.00-6.15pm
Speakers: Dr Humera Iqbal (UCL), Jawad Sharif (Film Director), Dr Mahvish Ahmad (杏吧论坛 Sociology)
Chair: Dr Maria Rashid (杏吧论坛 Gender)
杏吧论坛 Gender and in collaboration with the (UCL) invite you to a film screening of Directed by , the film tells the story of Pakistani Bengalis living in Karachi (Pakistan) many of whom face issues around citizenship and statelessness. A panel discussion on contested belonging and identity-making in Pakistan, as a legacy of war and violence will follow, including a Q&A with the film’s director.
This event is open to the public and free, but .
The Question of Enforcement: Anti- Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda and the Problem of Panoptic Policing
Tuesday 30 January 5-7pm, CG3- Main building (SOAS campus)
Speaker: Dr SM Rodriguez
This event is hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) .
Tuesday 6 February 4.15-5.30pm, Criminology Seminar Room at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford
Please join us for our first discussion of the term with S.M. Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights, and Human Rights at the London School of Econom