CIGS Work-in progress seminar - Wednesday 21 October, 4-5pm
CIGS will be hosting its first work-in-progress seminar of the year on Wednesday 21st October, 4-5pm. These seminars are an opportunity for staff and students...
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Writing Together Tuesdays is back!
During lockdown, we began holding afternoon 'Writing Together' sessions once a week. It began as an experiment, but as time went on, we accumulated over...
Book prize success for 'Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism'
We are delighted to announce that the book, Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism (2019, Manchester University Press) has been awarded the 2020 Foundation for the Sociology...
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 Y. Davis As many of...
#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 sport. Wrestling is an unusual...
CIGS Statement on Black Lives Matter
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...
CIGS Writing Together Tuesdays....
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...
CIGS Writing Together Wednesdays
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" -...
Monday 16th March : LHRI Gender, Race, Peace reading group launch
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...
Research Seminar with Professor Alison Phipps: "Me, Not You"
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...