Dear all,
Please see below (and attached flyer) details of the Visiting Speakers Seminar Series run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) at the University of Leeds for this academic year.
Events are free and open to all.
Abstracts will be posted on our website - www.gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk - before events. Details of our Annual Lecture will be forthcoming.
I look forward to seeing you at the seminars.
All best,
Sally
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CIGS VISITING SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES 2014-2015
15th October: Dr. Jacqui Gabb (Open University) Enduring Love? Relationship Work and Practices of Intimacy in Long-term Couple Relationships (with FLAG)
12th November: Prof. Angelia Wilson (University of Manchester) Why Europe is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and why America never will be)
3rd December: Prof. Yvette Taylor (Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, LSBU) Creating Citizens, Constructing Religion, Configuring Gender
28th January: Dr. John Mercer (University of Birmingham) Seeing is Believing: ‘Saturated’ Masculinity and Gay Pornography
11th February: Dr. Alison Phipps (University of Sussex) Identity, Responsibility and Choice: Feminism in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
22nd April: Dr. Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, London) Reclaiming Justice: Queer Engagements with Anti-carceral, Anti-violence work'
6th May Dr. Bethan Evans (University of Liverpool) ‘Fat People are Killing the Polar Bears': Critiquing Body-environment Relations in Anti-obesity Discourse from Obesogenic Environments to Global Warming
3rd June Dr. Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds) The Possibilities and Dangers of Translating Anglophone Gender Theory to the Spanish Cinematic and Literary Fields
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Seminars will be held in room 12.25 in the Social Sciences Building. This is located as No 82 on the Campus Map: www.leeds.ac.uk/site/custom_scripts/campus_map.php
Events are free and open to all. .
Abstracts for all events will be posted on the Events Page of CIGS website nearer the time: www.gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk
For further details of events or to be placed on the mailing list for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, please contact the Centre Director, Sally Hines: [log in to unmask] or our administrator Matthew Wilkinson: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Sally Hines
Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
T +44 (0)113 343 38273
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