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📢 Scholar of the Month!

The Gender Institute invites you to our next talk with Dr Elsa Bengtsson Mueller ✨

🗓️ Tuesday 25 Nov
🕒 3–4 PM
📍 Founder’s Lecture Theatre

“Blurred Violence: Exploring the Politics of the Misogynist Involuntary Celibate Community”
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Join us on 6 Nov at 1pm for a talk by Professor Madeline Balaam (KTH, Sweden): “Design explorations at the intersection of intimacy, the intimate body and technology”, exploring how design and emerging technologies shape our experiences of touch, care, and the body.
📍CDT Room, Bedford Building
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In our latest for Parchment, Power & Purpose, Dr Asiya Islam (LSE) discusses A Woman’s Job, exploring how young women in Delhi navigate gender, work & refusal in post-liberalisation India.
👉 Read the full interview here: open.substack.com/pub/royalhol...
‘Working Women’: Gender, Work, and the Politics of Refusal, with Dr Asiya Islam of the LSE.
Parchment, Power and Purpose: Writings from the Gender Institute
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October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New Substack from Elizabeth Pearson: "Navigating gender in research on the far right"
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Also see her Conversation piece: “Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women”
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Debate continues with Dr Elsa Bengtsson Mueller's talk, 25 Nov 3pm, Founder’s LT.
Navigating gender in research on the far right
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October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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April 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Interested in our work? Sign up to the new RHUL GI Substack, Parchment, Power and Purpose to read more from our inter-disciplinary team!

The latest post is by @lizzypearson.bsky.social on Navigating Gender doing research on the far right .. Support us and subscribe! 👇👇

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Navigating gender in research on the far right
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October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📢 Scholar of the Month!

The Gender Institute invites you to our first talk of the term with Dr Asiya Islam

🗓️ Tuesday 21st October
🕒 3–4 PM
📍 Bedford 0-07
✨ “‘Working women’: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal”
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just launched: the Gender Institute Substack 📝

A space for ideas, research, and conversations on gender and equity.

Come read and subscribe: substack.com/@royalhollow...
RHUL Gender Institute | Substack
Founded in 2020 with British Academy funding, the Gender Institute at Royal Holloway supports research, teaching, and activism on gender and sexuality, fostering collaboration, learning, and community...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Gender Institute at Royal Holloway & Shzr Ee Tan invite you to "Snack Supremo Aunties" — Sat 26 July, 3–5.30pm at 11 Bedford Sq, WC1B 3RE.

Talks on menopause, food and care, plus shared snacks from Southeast Asia. Limited places. Register here: bit.ly/45jktrq

We look forward to welcoming you!
Microsoft Forms
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July 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Dr. Daanika Kamal’s new book (OUP) reveals how Pakistani law discredits women who report domestic abuse. Based on 100+ cases, it offers a vital feminist legal critique.
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Join us today at 4:30pm in McCrea 0-02 or Teams to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Gender Institute with a talk from founder and former PIRP Head of Department Laura Sjoberg - all staff and students welcome to the talk and refreshments afterwards in the Chris Rumford Library, McCrea Building.
May 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Everyone is most welcome to join Professor Laura Sjoberg talk about her upcoming book on Tuesday 6th May at 4:30pm and the networking and general get together afterwards - gender@rhul.ac.uk.
April 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM