2017-18 seminar series

The Gender Research Centre (GRC) research seminars present research in progress by GRC staff, PhD students and visiting scholars.

All seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1 - 2 pm in LG.03, 10 Priory Rd. 

Everyone is welcome!

4 October  

Clare Bishop (Independent Consultant, previously at the UN FAO): 'Gender transformative approaches for sustainable agriculture and rural development in East and Southern Africa'

18 October

Dr Yvette Russell (University of Bristol Law School): 'The force of sexual difference'

1 November

Karina Garcia (PhD Candidate, University of Bristol): 'The role of gender in the production and reproduction of drug-related violence in Mexico'

22 November

Dr Ashley Dodsworth (University of Bristol): 'Is the feminist critique of rights applicable to environmental rights?

24 January

Dr Jelke Boesten (King's Development Institute, London): 'Gender Justice and Memorial Arts: from Symbolic Reparation to Protest Movement'

14 February

Dr Nadia Aghtaie (Bristol, School for Policy Studies): 'Justice, Inequality and Gender based violence: Seeking Justice through Sharia Councils in the UK' 

14 March

** CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION** Aaliyah Hussain (University of Warwick): 'Feminism in/against neoliberalism'

28 March

Lydia Medland (PhD Candidate, University of Bristol): 'The gendered dynamics of seasonal work in Morocco: reaffirming social stigma?' 

18 April

Matt Jacobs (PhD Candidate, University of Bristol): 'Whiteness and masculinity' 

2 May

Adriana Suarez-Delucchi (PhD Candidate, University of Bristol): 'Community based water management in Rural Chile' 

23 May

Dr Polly Wilding (University of Leeds): 'The moral economy of sexual violence: putting Brazilian rape outrage in context'

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