VOICE Symposium 2026 The VOICE Symposium is a student-led conference at the University of St Andrews, bringing together postgraduate researchers for an afternoon of presentations and discussion across four panels, with audience Q&A and a short refreshment break. After the event, the Women, Writing and Gender and Gender Studies students invite attendees to…
The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies welcomes Global Fellow Dr María Aimaretti (Universidad de Buenos Aires), who will deliver a talk on Annemarie Heinrich, the most relevant photographer during the classical industrial period of Argentine sound cinema: an agent of aesthetic modernisation and a synergistic protagonist of the cultural industry between the 1930s…
‘Working women’: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal Popular discussions about the four-day working week, quiet quitting, and the great resignation following the Covid19 pandemic indicate dissatisfaction with and changing attitudes towards contemporary waged work. And yet, waged work remains central to the construction of the aspirational, entrepreneurial, hyper-industrious woman essential for development in…
