NGender Programme Spring/Summer 2011
January 5th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
You are invited to this year’s NGENDER Postgrad seminars in Gender studies, at the University of Sussex. The seminars are interdisciplinary and organised by Doctoral students in the School of Media Film and Music. Please see below the programme for the seminars. All seminars will take place
every Tuesday at 1pm, in SB 317.
Please direct all inquiries to ngendersussex@gmail.com.
Download programme: ngender_prog2011a
The first presentation will be on the 18th January (week 2) – see abstract below. All welcome!
18th January
Dr Maribel Blázquez Rodriguez (Institute Development Studies & Universidad Complutense Madrid )
‘Sexual And Reproductive Policy In Spain’
25th January
Jane Traies (Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, Sussex)
‘The Lives of British Lesbians Over Sixty: Early findings’
Chair: Dr Rachel Cohen
1st February
Maria do Mar Pereira (Gender Institute, LSE)
‘Gender Studies is Relevant But…: Interrogating the Partial Recognition of Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences’
Chair: Dr. Shamira Meghani
8th February
Benjamin Michael Litherland (Media and Film, Sussex)
‘Hitman vs Fatton’s Tale of the Tape: Boxing, Binging and Masculinity’
Chair: Nick McGlynn
15th February
Michal Jahns (Media, Culture and Language, Roehampton University)
‘Debating Gender and Language’
Chair: Dr Olu Jenzen
1st March
Rachel Wood (Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, Sussex)
’‘Intelligible sexualities in and out of the closet”
Chair: Andy Medhurst
8th March
Cassandra Smith (English, Sussex)
‘Reclaiming Scars: Thinking through Trans Bodies’
Chair: Dr Akshay Khanna
15th March
Aristea Fotopoulou (Centre for Digital Material Culture, Sussex)
‘Feminist publics and policy shifts around egg donation’
Chair: Dr Kate O’Riordan
3rd May
Amanda Kidd (Education and Sociology, University of Bristol)
‘Beauty Therapy Training: Symbolic Violence and the Reproduction of Femininity’
Chair: Laurence Clennett-Sirois
10th May
Hannah Warren (Social Anthropology, Sussex)
‘The ideologies and practice of gender and development work in Ghana’
Chair: Synne Laastad Dyvik
17th May
Wibke Straube (Gender Studies, Linköping University)
‘Synaesthetic Politics and Transgender Films’
Chair: Daniel Ploeger
