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UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network
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Our aim is to explore the points where gender and feminist politics intersect with a diverse range of power relations and social movements. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/gender-and-feminisms-research-network
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Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health
2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online
Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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Seminar: Urban Mental Health
An in-person and online seminar exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
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NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
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November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists
1 December 2025, 6pm-8pm
We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England'
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IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists
We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England'
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November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Researching gender inequalities in Kenyan education: Promising practices and persistent barriers
30 Oct 2-3:30pm
Join this event to hear from Dr Ayse Demir, Dr Sarah Fedha, Dr Francis Omondi, and Dr Eliza Ngutuku on their research in Kenya.
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Researching gender inequalities in Kenyan education: Promising practices and persistent barriers
Join this event to hear from Dr Ayse Demir, Dr Sarah Fedha, Dr Francis Omondi, and Dr Eliza Ngutuku on their research in Kenya.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

📅27 Oct, 2-4pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN

Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour.

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The 1950s Shit They Want From Me: Tay-Vis and the Disciplinary Lens of Reproductive Labour
Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
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'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970
10 Oct 2025, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room, London
IHR Women's History seminar with Amanda Vickery (QMUL)
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Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970
This session explores Miss Great Britain (1945–70) as a lens on beauty, gender, class, race, and national identity, revealing sexism yet also new forms of female agency.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies
22 Jul 2025, 16:00 – 18:00
Join UCL Urban Lab for a reflective roundtable of scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies.
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Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies
Join UCL Urban Lab for a reflective roundtable of scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies. This event is part of a series celebrating 20 years of UCL Urban Lab.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Revolutionizing Human Development: Learning from Feminist Co-operators in the Americas
🚨TOMORROW! 3 June, 4-6pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social 🚨
With the wonderful @carolinehossein.bsky.social ⭐

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Revolutionizing Human Development: Learning from Feminist Co-operators in the Americas
Black feminist co-operators engage in globalizing solidarity economies through a specific form of mutual aid – formally referred to as Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) – to meet livel...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today
27 May 2025, 10am-12pm
Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
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Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today
Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
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May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Care or control? Regulating technology, behaviour & gender at school
Hybrid, 23 May 11:00 – 17:00 @ioe.bsky.social
A panel discussion to discuss the global uptake of mobile phone bans in schools to support and promote young people’s rights and prevent sexual violences.
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Care or control? Regulating technology, behaviour and gender at school
Join this panel discussion to discuss the global uptake of mobile phone bans in schools to support and promote young people’s rights and prevent sexual violences.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Rainbow Trap – London Launch
10 July 6:15pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'.
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Book cover of 'Rainbow Trap' by Kevin Guyan
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Victim/Suspect: film screening & panel discussion
15 May 3:30–7pm
Watch the film & learn about similar UK cases from our panellists, where women accused of lying to police about sexual assault have been prosecuted.
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Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion
A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion
15 May 3:30–7pm
A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison.
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Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion
A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison.
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peoples.
29 April 3:30-5:30pm
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Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peop...
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April 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion
15 May 2025, 3:30 pm–7:00 pm
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Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion
A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison.
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome.
Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment.
13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social
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New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL
This reading group invites students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages to consider interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of sexuality, reproductive health, and...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe
29 April 3:30-5:30pm
Examining literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family & household organization to the governance of colonized peoples.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peop...
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
26 March 2025, 5-7pm
We're pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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March 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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‘I simply rejected femaleness’: Diana Chapman’s narratives of gendered & sexual selfhood in mid-20thC Britain
11 March 6:30pm
Prof Rebecca Jennings Inaugural Lecture opens up questions re the entangled nature of gendered and sexual subjectivities in mid-20thC Britain
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Professor Rebecca Jennings: Inaugural Lecture
Join UCL History to celebrate Rebecca Jennings' professorship with a welcome from Dr Antonio Sennis (UCL) and an introduction by Professor Matt Cook (University of Oxford).
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March 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
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IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published
This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
7 March 2025, 1:30pm-5pm
Collaborative thinking, a discussion and a collaborative mapping and analysis activity. A prelude to the 2025 qUCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The Word for Quilting was Work
27 Feb 5:30pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social
Bailey will suggest Europe's premodern quilts might offer provocations for how we write feminist art histories of quilting, ultimately aiming to dismantle the primacy of a gender-binary.
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The Word for Quilting was Work
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Jess Bailey (University of Edinburgh) for a talk on 'The Word for Quilting was Work'.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Honoured to have @reproutopia.bsky.social deliver our annual qUCL/GFRN lecture!

March 7

‘The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism'

Respondents @galarexer.bsky.social Victoria Mangan, Emrah Karakus

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qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms'
7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm
qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture.
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qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms'
qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture.
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February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM