News, Events and Blog Posts
Seminar by Professor Kathy Davis
CIGS is delighted to welcome Professor Kathy Davis (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands), who will be giving a paper as part of...
Seminar with Dr Sarah Marie Hall
We are delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Marie Hall (Reader in Human Geography, University of Manchester), who will be giving...
CIGS Christmas and graduation celebration event
Unfortunately, this year, CIGS members won’t have the chance to celebrate graduation and the start of the Christmas break together...
New CIGS seminar recordings available
We are pleased to announce that recordings from two recent seminars are now available for viewing. Please click on the...
Intersectional Feminism in Action: Sisters Uncut Leeds
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela...
#ComingOut: Wrestling’s #MeToo and a moment of reckoning
I spent 2019 conducting ethnographic fieldwork in and around professional wrestling as part of my project into concussion in contact...
Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
By Ruth Holliday – Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic...
Sexual violence at gigs
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it....
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