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The LSE Department of Gender Studies will be wrapping up our 30th Anniversary calendar events this Spring Term and we would like to invite you, your students and colleagues to attend. Please feel free to share the below events with anyone in your networks who may be interested and direct any queries to [log in to unmask] Thank you!

The End of Peacekeeping 
Wednesday 1 May, 5.30-7pm The Marshall Building 1.04 – registration required: https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/events/2023-24/the-end-of-peacekeeping/the-end-of-peacekeeping
Speakers: Professor Marsha Henry (Queen's Belfast/LSE); Professor Clare Hemmings (LSE Gender); Professor Armine Ishkanian (LSE AFSEE); Dr Denisa Kotsovicova (LSE European Inst). Chair: Professor Sumi Madhok (LSE Gender)
The End of Peacekeeping makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an epistemic power project in need of abolition. Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, and from postcolonial and critical race theories, Professor Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies. She uses an intersectional analysis of peacekeeping based on more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in peacekeeping missions and training centres around the world, including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid personnel, and local populations. Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, the book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.
This event is being co-hosted with the LSE Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE). It is free and open to the public but will require registration. 

Breaking Silos: building solidarities in gender research
Friday, 3 May 2024 at the LSE Campus – registration required: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lsedepartmentofgenderstudies/1206769
The Breaking Silos Conference, celebrated as part of LSE Gender’s 30th Anniversary, proposes to create a space of solidarity and collaborative, localized, interdisciplinary knowledge-production that reaches beyond disciplinary and academic boundaries, and creates opportunities for collective learning and collaboration, as we address these mounting challenges. We extend an invitation to graduate students and early-career researchers from all research disciplines in any of the universities in greater London, as well as London-based practitioners, activists and community organizers to attend. Panel topics include Decolonizing Solidarities, Imagining Communities; Abolition, Borders & Carcerality; Digital Drives of Queer Desire: Fugitive Affects & Dangerous Complicities; Labours of Coping, Caring, and Life-Giving; Breaking the Silence: Survivor-Centered Approaches to Sexual Violence; Feminist Knowledges, Otherwise; and more. 

LSE Gender Studies: 30 years and beyond
Friday 10 May 9.30am-7.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre (CKK) – registration required: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lsedepartmentofgenderstudies/1107823
The Department of Gender Studies symposium will celebrate 30 years of interdisciplinary, critical, transnational and intersectional gender research and teaching at the LSE. Departmental faculty will participate in panel discussions with gender scholars from around the world on themes ranging from 'Archives and contemporary gender politics', 'Care and reproductive justice', 'Identity, sexuality and rights', and 'Humanitarianism, peace and security'. Speakers include Aiko Holvikivi, Aisha Ibrahim, Ania Plomien, Anjali Arondekar, C Riley Snorton, Clare Hemmings, Toni Hasstrup, Marsha Henry, Sadie Wearing, Shirin Rai, Tracey Reynolds, Sharmila Parmanand, SM Rodriguez, So Mayer, Sylvia Tamale, and Wendy Sigle.
For more information about the department’s 30th Anniversary, please take a look at our dedicated 30th Anniversary webpage: https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/30th-anniversary/30th-anniversary

Best,
Violet Fox
Communications and Events Manager
LSE Department of Gender Studies

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