I spent 2019 conducting ethnographic fieldwork in and around professional wrestling as part of my project into concussion in contact sport. Wrestling is an unusual beast that sits somewhere in between sport and theatre – the impacts and toll on the body are very real, but the performances are choreographed...
CIGS members want to express our solidarity with all those involved in, or affected by, recent Black Lives Matter protests following the killing by police of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Tony McDade in the USA. We know that these events have been deeply traumatic for all those committed to...
For the last couple of months, we’ve been running the CIGS Writing Together Wednesdays, attracting gender studies students and scholars from both within and beyond Leeds to enjoy some quiet, focused, collaborative writing time. Due to recent scheduling difficulties, these have now been moved to Tuesdays, 1.45 – 4pm (from...
As we continue to come to terms with our changing lives and environments in the face of COVID-19, CIGS is launching “Writing Together Wednesdays” – a chance to gather online to engage in a couple of hours of friendly, collective writing. We will meet at 1.45 on Zoom each Wednesday...
The new LHRI Gender, Race, Peace reading group will be launched on Monday 16th March, 12-13.30 (lunch provided). You can find more details at https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1848/gender_race_peace_-_reading_group_launch_event All welcome.
Wednesday 19th February Drinks and snacks from 12.30, Seminar from 1-2pm (Social Sciences Building, 12.21 / 25) All welcome. What violence can we do, in the name of fighting sexual violence? This is the central question animating Alison Phipps’ forthcoming book Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism (Manchester...
This semester, CIGS is organising two reading groups around the theme of “Anger”. The dates and readings are listed below. Both sessions will be held in the postgraduate common room in the Social Sciences Building (Rm 11.09). Tuesday 29th October, 1-2pm Lorde, Audre (1981) “The uses of anger” Women’s Studies...
In the run up to the Christmas break, CIGS ran a campaign on period poverty, inviting members to donate sanitary products that would be distributed locally to those in need. The response was simultaneously generous and furious, with many people expressing frustration that charitable donations were the only way for...
Wednesday 13th February, 12 – 13.30pm, Rm 12.21 / 25 in School of Sociology & Social Policy, Univ. of Leeds Over the past few years entrepreneurs such as Ella Mills (Deliciously Ella), Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley (Hemsley + Hemsley) and Madeleine Shaw (Get the Glow) have achieved extraordinary levels of cultural...
Join us in this event where we will be “Challenging Academic Debates: Situating Decolonial Science, Art and Faith in the Syllabus”, in celebration of the Black History Month. 25th and 26th October 2018, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
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