2015-16 seminar series
All seminars took place on Wednesday, 1-2 pm, Room G2, 10 Priory Road.
TB2
3 February
Natasha Carver, PhD candidate, SPAIS
‘Gender roles in “ideal marriage” among Somali immigrants in the UK’
2 March
Professor Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender
‘The good feminist representative’
13 April
Dr Egle Cesnulyte, Teaching Assistant, SPAIS
'Strategies of extraversion and jumping scales: The Kenyan sex worker movement's political agenda, local considerations and engagement with international actors'
15 June
Dr Anna Szorenyi, Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies and Social Analysis, University of Adelaide, Australia
'Saving victims, closing borders: Refugees, trafficking and grievable life'
TB1
7 October
Dr Nadia Aghtaie, Lecturer in Gender Based Violence, SPS
‘Perspectives of Iranian female students on gender-based violence in Iran and the UK’
28 October
Dr Deborah May Withers, Assistant Teacher, SPAIS
‘Playing with time: Resistant time-consciousness and the politics of attention in Kate Bush's Director's Cut’
9 December
Laura Lyddon, PhD candidate, SPAIS
Topic: Gender and the arms trade [title TBC]
13 January
Le Yang and Shiya Qin, Visiting PhD student, SPAIS
This joint session will focus on comfort women in China, and the integration of China into global capitalism.
We are delighted to have Le Yang and Shiya Qin visiting us from two of China's top institutions. You can read their biographies here.