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  • Girlhood Stories: What can(‘t) stories about girls do?. 16th November 16:00.

    Arts Building

     Girlhood Stories: What can(‘t) stories about girls do?  The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted that Catherine Mackenzie will be delivering the StAIGS Seminar on Thursday the 16th of November. The talk is titled: Girlhood Stories: What can(‘t) stories about girls do? The abstract is copied below.    The talk will take place from 4pm to…

  • Second Annual St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Lecture 9th April

    The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Jemima Repo will be visiting this April. Dr Repo is Reader in Political and Feminist Theory at Newcastle University. She has published widely on topics across contemporary social and political theory (especially feminist theory and biopolitics), the politics of population, political economy,…

  • Chinese Cinema: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mint on Tour 8th sept-26th october

    Chinese Cinema: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mint on Tour “薄荷紫云行巡展计划”is a touring programme of Chinese cinema coming to Scotland this Autumn. The programme is presented by MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) x Aya Films and is a mix of contemporary, classic and short Chinese films made by and about women.   The…

  • 11th September: GLEANERS, DEVILS AND PITS: BOLIVIAN MINING COMMUNITY FILMS

    School V and Arts Lecture

    TALK+SCREENING Date: Wednesday 11th of September   Place: School V  Time: From 4 to 5.30  Organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS) Invited speaker: Miguel Errazu (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Convener: Isabel Seguí (Dept Film Studies and…

  • Forget Roma! Antuca, a true feminist Indigenous working-class film 17th April, 5:00 p.m School III

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    School III

      At StAIGS, we are honoured to welcome Latin American feminist filmmaker María Barea for a screening of a recently restored version of her modern classic Antuca (1992), a Peruvian film made thanks to the collaboration of Warmi Cine y Video, the pioneering women's film collective and Iprofoth (Instituto de Promoción y Formación de Trabajadoras…

  • STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. DR. ASIYA ISLAM. ‘Working women’: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal

    ‘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…

  • Dreaming through her gaze: Annemarie Heinrich and classical Argentine cinema.

    Boardroom. Film Studies. 99 North Street 99 North Street, St Andrews

      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…

  • VOICE Symposium 2026, student led conference. Wednesday 25 March 2026.

    Arts Building

      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…