Gender and Cultural Studies Seminar Roundtable
Intimacies in Asia in a time of Pandemics This online roundtable will focus on the broad area of intimacy as it is being reimagined, reaffirmed, or otherwise enacted in Asia in the context of our current period of COVID-19. It will include five short presentations by key scholars in this area followed by an open …
Gender and Cultural Studies Seminar Roundtable
Boys: Learning from feminist and gender studies for research on boyhoods | A GCS Roundtable ……… When and Where Friday 24 April 2020, An invitation will be sent containing the zoom code* All our events are currently held on Zoom. Please note that for various scheduling reasons, the start and finish times for each of …
Sustaining Seas launch
The Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the Sydney Environment Institute celebrate the publication of Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care with this interdisciplinary, online, academic panel. Edited by Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee, Sustaining Seas foregrounds conversations across, and within, several disciplines, including practitioners of different specialities (artists, writers, planners, policy makers) …
Situating COVID-19: Gender, Race, Ecology
Launch: Online discussion series This roundtable discussion will explore the way in which the current COVID-19 pandemic intersects with broader questions of gender, race, and ecology. In so doing, it aims to highlight how these central areas of research interest in the Department are vital areas of consideration in understanding the emergence, impacts, and ongoing …
Can there be an affirmative feminist boys studies?
Can there be an affirmative feminist boys studies? Huddle 11 December 2019 Overview Most research on boys and boyhood is focused on risk-reduction, representing boys as problems at school, on the streets, or in relationships, with an ambivalent (if not oppositional) relation to feminism. At the same time, anti-feminist public discourse highlighting the experiences of …