Past events

04 February 2025, 4:30pm

Roundtable on Queering Research Methods

This event explores how queer perspectives enrich contemporary research methods and scholarship in the arts and beyond.

A group of people in army uniforms stand on concrete, there are long shadows on the ground.

09 January 2025, 2:00pm

Transformative indicators for women, peace and security | PeaceRep research seminar with Dr Laura McLeod

PeaceRep’s January research seminar will feature Dr Laura McLeod, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Laura will present her recent article, Transformative indicators? Gender expertise and technocratic peace, followed by a response from PeaceRep Senior Research Fellow Laura Wise and an open discussion.

02 December 2024, 2:00pm

16 Days of Activism: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Scotland

Scotland is often praised for its “world-leading” approaches to addressing gender-based violence, but how effective are these policies in practice? What are the latest debates, developments, and future goals in this area? And how does Scotland measure up internationally?

25 November 2024, 1:00pm

Feminist Research Methods for Undergraduates

GENDER.ED is hosting three sessions to introduce undergraduate students to exciting feminist research methods and enable them to practice these in their own dissertation and research projects.

20 November 2024, 4:10pm

Reproductive freedom or racialised anti-natalism? The introduction of contraception in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe & Martinique, 1960s)

Join us for an insightful seminar exploring the French state's controversial and racially charged attempts to introduce contraception in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the 1960s, revealing the complex interplay of local responses and broader anti-natalist policies.

12 November 2024, 6:00pm

Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures

This discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.

07 November 2024, 3:30pm

Setting Desires Free or Putting us on Fire? Mapping Everyday Practices of Queerness, Caste, and Decolonial Praxis in India

As courtrooms become sites of sexual freedom through fighting colonial era laws or seeking same sex marriages rights, and this which is often presented as a decolonial moment/movement, Dhiren Borisa wants to remind you that it is far from it.

05 November 2024, 2:00pm

Born of War in Colombia

Join us to disscuss Dr Sanchez Parra's book Born of War in Colombia, which addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas.

29 October 2024, 3:00pm

Book Launch: Gender in South Asia and Beyond

Join us to celebrate the launch of this essay collection celebrating the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery, who for over 40 years, carried out pioneering research on a range of subjects including gender and development. With guest speakers, Prof Nitya Rao, Prof Anuj Kapilashrami and Prof Lynn Jamieson.

24 October 2024, 6:30pm

Screening of Mme d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690): part of LLC’s ‘Missing Matter: Challenges of and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery’ programme

GENDER.ED is delighted to co-host a screening of La Compagnie Subversive Stage Production: Thérèse d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690) at the L’Institut français d’Ecosse, part of LLC’s ‘Missing Matter: Challenges of and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery’ programme.

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