Seminar: Dr Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent), Wednesday 5th May
You are warmly invited to join us for a seminar with Dr Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent) on Wednesday 5th May, 12 - 1.30pm, entitled Revolutionary...
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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 the SSP Research Seminar Series...
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 seminar titles to access the...
SSP Research Seminar: What's wrong with sugar?
Karen Throsby will be giving a paper as part of the SSP research seminar series on Wednesday 2 December, 12.00 - 1.30pm. The paper will...
CIGS Reading Group: "The Tenacity of the Couple Norm"
We are excited to announce our first reading group session for this academic year on Wednesday 25th November, 4-5pm. We will be reading a...
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...
Sexual violence at gigs
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it. Pauli[i], aged 15, was watching...
Vagina dialogues: theorizing the ‘designer vagina’ - new book chapter by Ruth Holliday
Professor Ruth Holliday has been writing about 'designer vagina's. Her chapter 'Vagina dialogues: theorizing the "designer vagina"' is published in Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World (Routledge).
Caring for the clone, kinship and control
Greg Hollin discusses how we need to think about kinship more broadly if we to understand the implications of animal cloning for medical purposes.