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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
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World-leading research and teaching on all aspects of gender and sexuality across the disciplines at the University of Cambridge. MPhil and PhD degrees. www.gender.cam.ac.uk.
Coming up later today, 12:30 ARB S1!
Tomorrow 1/12 (12:30-1:30, ARB S1), Princess Banda of Oxford shares her research on The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape. Join us in person or online: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Tomorrow 1/12 (12:30-1:30, ARB S1), Princess Banda of Oxford shares her research on The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape. Join us in person or online: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Don't miss next week's seminar and workshop - 1 pm 5 December 2025: 'Queer Theory & Human Rights - methods & critiques' with Prof Loveday Hodson and Dr David N.C. Ikpo. Further information and registration: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events... @lovedayh.bsky.social @lenaholzer.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Coming up at 12:30 today!
Tomorrow 17 Nov we are welcoming Prof Sarah Dillon of the Cambridge English Faculty for a talk ""Pryce's Buoy": Alan Turing's Short Story and Homosexual Literature." All welcome to join us in person in ARB S1 at 12:30 or online at the link in the poster!
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Tomorrow 17 Nov we are welcoming Prof Sarah Dillon of the Cambridge English Faculty for a talk ""Pryce's Buoy": Alan Turing's Short Story and Homosexual Literature." All welcome to join us in person in ARB S1 at 12:30 or online at the link in the poster!
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Dr Ola Osman, now back in Cambridge as the youngest Black woman Assistant Professor ever appointed!
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Open day/live Q and A sessions start today, sign up now!
MPhil and PhD admissions are open and we have exciting new funding for PhDs! Book an open day spot for Tuesday here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
and check out live Q and A with MPhil and PhD Directors this week as well: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/live-qa...
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written an article titled 'Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances'.

Read the article now: doi.org/10.17863/CAM...
Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances
This article is about the relationship between environment and desire, focusing on male combatants in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Most LRA fighters were forcibly conscripted as teenage...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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MPhil and PhD admissions are open and we have exciting new funding for PhDs! Book an open day spot for Tuesday here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
and check out live Q and A with MPhil and PhD Directors this week as well: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/live-qa...
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Afternoon Event: Tues 11 Nov 2025: 'Pluriloguing with ourselves: non-dominant feminisms in global governance (a conversation with Gina Heathcote and Amena Yassine). More info: buff.ly/b8sAmm1
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's today! See you later at 12:30 in ARB S1 for our alum Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson's talk!
Don't miss a visit on Monday 3 Nov from our PhD alum Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson, speaking on his research "Kurdish and Queer Struggles for Democracy and Peace: Transformative Dialogues". 12:30-1:30 ARB S1
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
MPhil and PhD admissions are open and we have exciting new funding for PhDs! Book an open day spot for Tuesday here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
and check out live Q and A with MPhil and PhD Directors this week as well: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/live-qa...
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Don't miss a visit on Monday 3 Nov from our PhD alum Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson, speaking on his research "Kurdish and Queer Struggles for Democracy and Peace: Transformative Dialogues". 12:30-1:30 ARB S1
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Coming up next week! Live Q and A with MPhil and PhD directors!
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Join us on Monday 3 Nov at 12:30 for the return of our alum Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson of the LSE, speaking on his research "Kurdish and Queer Struggles for Democracy and Peace: Transformative Dialogues" ARB S1, all welcome! www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Live Q and A sessions with PhD Director Dr Lauren Wilcox and MPhil Director Holly Porter coming up-- a great chance to answer all your questions about the courses and admissions not on our website! For dates and to sign up: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/live-qa...
Live Q&A sessions for prospective applicants with UCCGS MPhil and PhD Directors 2025 | University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Dr Lauren Wilcox, Director of the UCCGS PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies will be holding a live Q&A for prospective PhD students via Zoom.
www.gender.cam.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Live Q and A sessions with PhD Director Dr Lauren Wilcox and MPhil Director Holly Porter coming up-- a great chance to answer all your questions about the courses and admissions not on our website! For dates and to sign up: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/live-qa...
Live Q&A sessions for prospective applicants with UCCGS MPhil and PhD Directors 2025 | University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Dr Lauren Wilcox, Director of the UCCGS PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies will be holding a live Q&A for prospective PhD students via Zoom.
www.gender.cam.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.

🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room

Register for free tickets ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Join Kwaku Adomaku @cambridgegender.bsky.social and Dr Shannon Philip @camsociology.bsky.social this Thursday evening to discuss "Queer Post-colonies in crisis?"
October 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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This term's Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminars start Mon 20 Oct with Carlos J. Zelada, Universidad del Pacífico in Peru, "Imperfect victims: Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" 12:30 ARB S1 and online, all invited!
Imperfect victims
Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This term's Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminars start Mon 20 Oct with Carlos J. Zelada, Universidad del Pacífico in Peru, "Imperfect victims: Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" 12:30 ARB S1 and online, all invited!
Imperfect victims
Sexual violence against men in the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Coming up in 10 days now!
We're pleased to announce Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia University as this year's Juliet Mitchell lecturer. Join us 15 October 17:30 at the McCrum theater for her talk "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...
October 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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We're pleased to announce Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia University as this year's Juliet Mitchell lecturer. Join us 15 October 17:30 at the McCrum theater for her talk "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...
September 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM