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SUMMARY:VOICE Symposium 2026\, student led conference. Wednesday 25 March 2026.
DESCRIPTION: \nVOICE Symposium 2026\n \nThe 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 join for relaxed drinks (venue TBC)\n \nWednesday 25 March 2026 — 13:30–17:30 (registration 13:00–13:30)\nLocation: Arts Building\, Lecture Room 003\, The Scores\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AX\n\n \n \nEventbrite (required free registration): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voice-symposium-tickets-1983558559046?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl\n \nPhotography notice:\nPhotographs will be taken during the event for our Instagram (@voicesymposium). Anyone who prefers not to be photographed can let us know on the day.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/voice-symposium-2026-student-led-conference-wednesday-25-march-2026/
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SUMMARY:Dreaming through her gaze: Annemarie Heinrich and classical Argentine cinema.
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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 and the 1950s. Yet film history has long overlooked her career and contributions\, reducing her legacy to the simplistic label of “magazine cover photographer”. \nThis presentation offers a series of reflections drawn from an ongoing research project that seeks to restore texture and dimensionality to Heinrich’s figure. It does so by working with selected materials from the paper archive within her personal and professional collection\, which we have been cataloguing and systematising since 2022. \nWe will begin by outlining key aspects of the sociocultural and historical context in which her career unfolded. Then we will examine the multiple and layered facets of her professional profile as it evolved over time: worker and consumer\, self-taught pupil and informal teacher\, author and archivist. \nFinally\, we will discuss the need to recognise the historiographical value of this photographer’s paper archive\, both by bringing it into dialogue with the images that once made thousands dream\, and by appreciating it as a record of the life and craft of a working woman. \nEvent organised with the support of the Global Office\, Film Studies and the CAS (Centre for Amerindian\, Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/dreaming-through-her-gaze-annemarie-heinrich-and-classical-argentine-cinema/
LOCATION:Boardroom. Film Studies. 99 North Street\, 99 North Street\, St Andrews
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250513T080000
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SUMMARY:STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. DR. ASIYA ISLAM. ‘Working women’: Gender\, work\, and the politics of refusal
DESCRIPTION:‘Working women’: Gender\, work\, and the politics of refusal\nPopular 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 the Global South. In this lecture\, I will draw upon longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi\, India to explore situated vocabularies of work as a window into changing understandings of work amidst a push towards increasing women’s workforce participation. The distinction between different forms of work shows change in and reproduction of gender\, class\, and caste relations\, and is important for refusal of certain kinds of work. To chart a path towards understanding everyday lives that are constituted through but also entail rejection of work\, I will put feminist scholarship that explores globalisation and gendered subjectivities into conversation with feminist engagements with antiwork politics.    \n13 MAY 2025\n16:00 – 18:00\nJohn Henderson Lecture Room\, Castlecliffe \n14 MAY 2015\nMasterclass\n11:00-13:00\nSchool V\,\nSt Salvator’s Quad. \nIf you want to come the master class on the 14th of may\, these are the readings that Asiya will discuss with you.\n\nIslam A. (2025) A woman’s job. In: A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India. South Asia in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press\, pp.1-29.\n\nIslam\, A. (2022). Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change. Ethnography\, 25(1)\, 38-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211058356\n\n\nDr. Asiya Islam\nShe is an Assistant Professor in Gender\, Development and Globalisation at the Department of Gender Studies at the LSE. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge\, MSc in Gender\, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics\, and BA(Hons) Communicative English at Aligarh Muslim University.  She is interested in the relationship between gender and work\, in other words\, in understanding how gender and work mutually shape each other. She interrogates the definition\, classification\, and value of work. Her research includes under and un-paid forms of work\, such as domestic work\, care work\, as well as the work of preparing for work. She adopts an intersectional approach to gender and have particularly been attentive to the intersections between gender\, class\, and caste in her research. \n 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/staigs-annual-lecture-13-may-2025-dr-asiya-islam-working-women-gender-work-and-the-politics-of-refusal/
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SUMMARY:Forget Roma! Antuca\, a true feminist Indigenous working-class film 17th April\, 5:00 p.m School III
DESCRIPTION:  \nAt 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 del Hogar)\, a non-profit dedicated to empowering migrant and Indigenous women domestic workers. \nAntuca adopts a docu-drama format\, focusing on the life of its titular character\, portraying her journey from Cajamarca to Lima and her involvement in political activism amid employment shifts and identity challenges. \nThe restoration of Antuca was done between 2023 and 2024 in the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) at San Sebastian within the framework of the project “Preservation of the films of María Barea and Warmi\, First Women’s Collective in Peruvian Cinema” of which Dr Isabel Seguí\, a lecturer at the Department of Film Studies and co-director of StAIGS\, is a team member. \n  \nA wine reception will follow the event. \nAll welcome!  \n 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/forget-roma-antuca-a-true-feminist-indigenous-working-class-film-qa-with-director-maria-barea/
LOCATION:School III
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240911T160000
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SUMMARY:11th September:  GLEANERS\, DEVILS AND PITS: BOLIVIAN MINING COMMUNITY FILMS
DESCRIPTION:TALK+SCREENING \n\n\nDate: Wednesday 11th of September \n\n  \nPlace: School V  \nTime: From 4 to 5.30 \n\n 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) \n\n\nInvited speaker: Miguel Errazu (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) \n\n\nConvener: Isabel Seguí (Dept Film Studies and St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies) \n\n\n Blurb: One of the most remarkable experiments in radical film pedagogy and media proletarianisation in Latin America cinema is the Miner’s Film Workshop\, held in Bolivia in 1983. The resulting thirteen films – that were thought lost for decades – have been recently found in Paris\, together with the entire administrative archive of the workshop. An international research team is currently working on preserving these primary sources and developing a digital restitution project in Bolivia. This presentation will discuss the historical protagonism of women in the workshop and delve into problematic issues related to the preservation and archival activation process in the present. Moreover\, for the first time in the UK\, we will have the opportunity to watch two of the shorts. Join us for a rare visual treat and some academic self-criticism!
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/11th-september-gleaners-devils-and-pits-bolivian-mining-community-films/
LOCATION:School V and Arts Lecture
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SUMMARY:Chinese Cinema: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mint on Tour 8th sept-26th october
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nThe programme will run from 8th September – 26th October across Edinburgh\, Glasgow\, Dundee\, Inverness\, Aberfeldy\, and St Andrews and the tour consists of 7 feature films\, 2 short film programmes\, live music accompaniments\, discussions\, introductions and more! Scroll down to browse the full film selection and get ready to book screenings and shows near you with your friends and family!  \nLink here: https://www.unicornscreening.com/mint-on-tour
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/chinese-cinema-women-hold-up-half-the-sky-mint-on-tour-8th-sept-26th-october/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240409T150000
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SUMMARY:Second Annual St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Lecture 9th April
DESCRIPTION:The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Jemima Repo will be visiting this April. \nDr 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\, Palestine\, and popular culture. Dr Repo’s book\, The Biopolitics of Gender\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015 and was awarded the 2017 International Studies Association’s Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Book Award. She was also the 2021 winner of the APSA Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. \nDr Repo will be delivering both our annual StAIGS Lecture and our Graduate Student Masterclass. The lecture is open to all\, but the masterclass is registration only and places are limited\, so please contact the organiser\, Dr Fletcher (jef1)\, if you would like to attend. Full details for these events are below and the poster is attached. \n  \nSecond Annual St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Lecture \nApril 9\, 3pm-5pm\, St Salvator’s Quad\, School II \nThe Lecture will be followed by a wine reception in Edgecliffe. \nTitle: Commodification and the Economics of Feminist Activism \nAbstract: The resurgence of feminist activism in recent years has been accompanied by the emergence of feminist commodities\, some by small feminist businesses\, others mass-marketed by chains\, some sold purely for profit\, others attached to donations to feminist and other social justice causes. This entails two shifts in feminist activism: first\, the increasing reliance on charitable giving through commodity consumption as a means of feminist political action and second\, the transfer of the work of feminist activism from movements to enterprises. This paper examines the implications of such feminist practices by juxtaposing them with past instances of feminist activism engaged with the commodities. Selling things has been a part of funding feminist activism since the women’s suffrage movement. During the second wave\, feminists likewise had to make various compromises or take political risks in order to secure funding for activism. I examine the parallels between contemporary and past economic modes of feminist activism\, and in so doing analyse how the intensified turn to commodification and the enterprise form change the politics of feminism itself. \n  \nSt Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Graduate Student Masterclass \nApril 10\, 11am-1pm\, Muir Room\, Old Burgh School \nThe Masterclass is registration only\, so please register by March 22 to avoid disappointment. The Masterclass will be followed by a catered lunch. \nTitle: Genealogy\, ‘Gender Wars’ and the Spectre of Liberalism \nAbstract: Polarisation is widely recognised as a mainstay of the current feminist debate around gender in the UK\, and beyond. ‘Gender critical feminists’ or ‘TERFs’ are pitted against ‘trans activists’ or ‘trans-inclusionary’ feminists. There are many effects of this polarisation. For starters\, these two groups are assumed to be internally coherent politically\, theoretically and ideologically. In this paper\, I am interested in three further effects\, which I also wish to counter. First\, the polarisation of feminism has led to a sense that the two positions exhaust the possible feminist approaches to gender today. Second\, the polarisation of feminism has led to newfound efforts across feminisms to stabilise and entrench given definitions of ‘gender’ as true that run contrary to the queer/poststructural feminist ethos\, and third\, it has re-established the liberal politics of recognition as the primary legitimate mode of feminist politics. The paper draws on feminist\, queer and trans genealogies to destabilise these configurations and to consider a politics that displaces the matrices of identity\, representation\, and recognition.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/second-annual-st-andrews-institute-for-gender-studies-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Girlhood Stories: What can(‘t) stories about girls do?. 16th November 16:00.
DESCRIPTION: Girlhood Stories: What can(‘t) stories about girls do? \nThe 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.   \n The talk will take place from 4pm to 5.30pm\, on Thursday the 16th of November\, in the Arts Seminar 7 in the Arts Building (ARB: 317).   \nCatherine (Kate) Mackenzie is a 4th Year PhD researcher in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews\, with supervision also at the University of Strathclyde (Dr Elaine Webster\, School of Law).  Kate’s PhD research is on Imagining Children’s Rights in Central Africa: Francophone Fiction and State Discourse since 1999.   She takes a post-colonial approach to analyse how such texts reflect differing conceptions of childhood and shed light on the tensions inherent in the relationship of the child to the adult\, the individual to the state\, and African nations to the international human rights regime.  \n  \n Abstract: My work brings together representations of childhood in international children’s rights law and in four francophone African novels. I do not set one against the other\, but rather use law as a lens to explore fictional representations of childhood and vice versa. A question which runs through my analysis is: what does narrative bring to understanding of childhood and of children’s rights? Here\, I focus on stories and rights of girls.  \n The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child ((1990) set out the rights of everyone under age 18. For ‘the child’ of the UN Convention\, sex is irrelevant; the Convention bars discrimination\, but makes no direct mention of girls (or boys). The African Charter makes brief mention of girls in relation to education. Beyond that\, there is no suggestion in either treaty that the needs\, vulnerabilities\, capacity to access rights for girls are any different than for boys. In rights terms\, if female sex is significant\, then girls are ‘becoming women’\, their rights addressed by women’s rights law.    \n In the two novels in my study with girl protagonists\, the girls’ female sex is central to their lives. In Our Lady of the Nile\, by Scholastique Mukasonga\, adolescent girls are seen as becoming-women\, -wives\, -mothers. In Johnny Mad Dog\, by Emmanuel Dongala\, the girl protagonist starts as cared for child\, emerges into the role of protective mother to a younger child. In both novels\, girls who are having consensual sex are portrayed as outside ‘proper’ childhood. That is\, both stories depict girlhood as uneasily straddling childhood and womanhood within societies significantly structured around sex.  \nFor my analysis\, stories of girlhood make visible i) the significance of sex\, elided in children’s rights law and discourse\, and ii) the ways in which the experience and social understanding of girlhood is shaped by impending womanhood. The separation in human rights law of girls’ rights as children and as female is shown to reflect a wider social ambivalence (with North/South dimensions) around girlhood and the material and social link between girlhood\, womanhood and potential motherhood.  \nThere is a further question: what can stories do for girls? In both novels\, the girl protagonists are inspired by the real or imagined stories of strong women. The notion of ‘relatable’ role models is ubiquitous in children’s rights/development discourse. The girl protagonist of Johnny Mad Dog is herself discussed as a role model in educational editions of the novel (though she is invisible in the title and the cover illustrations of most editions). Her own role model\, the real life African American scientist and astronaut Mae Jemison\, is the subject of dozens of ‘inspirational’ books for children. At the same time\, both real life and fictional stories\, especially of the marginalised\, may be critiqued as objectifying. Do girlhood stories challenge or inevitably function within existing power dynamics? – a question Dongala has female characters explore in relation to stories of sexual violence. I invite discussion. 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/girlhood-stories-what-cant-stories-about-girls-do-16th-november-1600/
LOCATION:Arts Building
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SUMMARY:Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor:  Caste\, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor:  Caste\, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK\n Sweaty\, seductive sex club on a Saturday night London\, and amidst some raunchy Bollywood music someone whispers to you a shloka. In the nudity of a sauna in Leicester\, a stranger who desires you\, randomly asks you your caste. We can have weird encounters in most unanticipated ways and in strangest of places – even when they reek of desire\, sexuality\, and possible freedoms. When I came to England for a short fellowship\, I was prepared I might face racial othering\, but I wasn’t expecting caste. And yet the first message I received on Grindr asked\, ‘Are you a Brahmin?’. \nThe vagaries of caste are often seen restricted to the South Asian subcontinent\, and its diaspora and her queerness only seen through its racialized othering. Using anecdotes and stories from desi queer encounters in the UK\, my presentation reveals colonial continuities of caste among South Asian queer lives. While we question dominant framings of sexualities that originate in West as insufficient to explain lives elsewhere\, I ask\, what happens to the Dalit queer lover when desires among us continue to be coded through upper caste-class framings? Challenging the homogenous idea of a South Asian queer community\, this presentation highlights subcontinental geopolitical divisions\, religious differences\, caste hierarchies\, and communal obligations in shaping diasporic queer spaces and subjectivities. \nBIO: \nDhiren Borisa is a Dalit queer activist\, poet\, and urban sexual geographer\, and is currently employed as Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law school\, India. He is presently in UK working on his first monograph as Urban Studies Foundation International fellow and a visiting researcher at University of Sheffield. He is also an honorary visiting fellow at the School of Geography\, Geology\, and Environment at the University of Leicester\, UK. He  attained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi on Queer Cartographies of Desires in Delhi. His research primarily focuses in studying caste and class dynamics in sexual mappings and makings of cities from an intersectional and decolonial lens both among queer spaces in India and in diasporic queer worldings. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/holding-some-ground-on-a-greasy-dancefloor-caste-queerness-and-south-asian-diaspora-in-the-uk/
LOCATION:Arts Building
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SUMMARY:Book talk:  Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China\, Jia Tan
DESCRIPTION:The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies)\, invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade.  \nJia Tan is a Global Fellow at the University of St Andrews.  \n\nDigital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media\, feminist and queer culture\, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls “rights feminism\,” or the emergence of rights consciousness in Chinese feminist formations\, as well as queer activism and rights advocacy. Expanding on feminist and queer theory of masquerade\, she develops the notion of “digital masquerade” to theorize the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism\, queerness\, and rights. Drawing from interviews with various feminist and queer media practitioners\, participant observation at community events\, and detailed analyses of a variety of media forms such as social media\, electronic journals\, digital filmmaking\, film festivals\, and dating app videos\, Jia Tan captures the feminist\, queer\, and rights articulations that are simultaneously disruptive of and conditioned by state censorship\, technological affordances\, and dominant social norms. \n  \n \n\n\n Jia TAN is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her doctoral degree in critical studies of cinema and television from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (New York University Press\, 2013). Her research has been funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council\, Social Science Research Council\, Harold Lloyd Foundation\, and so on. She is on the editorial board of Communication\, Culture\, and Critique as well as Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-talk-digital-masquerade-feminist-rights-and-queer-media-in-china-jia-tan/
LOCATION:BWD10 (24)\, Butts Wynd Building
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SUMMARY:2nd may Book presentation: Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela
DESCRIPTION:We invite to the presentation of the Book: Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela\, Moises Da Silva\n2nd of May 2-4 pm. Book Launch. School 1 followed by a reception in Social Anthropology Coffee Room\n3rd of May 2-4 pm\, Workshop I: Publishing  St Mary’s College T205 Lecture Room 2\n4rd of May 2- 4 pm\, Workshop II: Doing Fieldwork in Law and Anthropology: Challengees\, Opportunities and Best Practices  St Mary’s College T205 Lecture Room 2
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2nd-may-book-presentation-minoritarian-liberalism-a-travesti-life-in-a-brazilian-favela/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T110000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Masterclass
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/graduate-student-masterclass/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture - details to follow
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lecture-details-to-follow/
LOCATION:School II
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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SUMMARY:Professor Robin Dembroff will be visiting the Institute in April 2023.  
DESCRIPTION:The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Robin Dembroff will be visiting the Institute in April 2023.   \nRobin Dembroff is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. They work on feminist and LGBTQ philosophy\, with a focus on what gender is and how it shapes social outcomes\, experiences\, and ways of knowing. Dembroff’s current book project\, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gender\, is under contract with Oxford University Press\, with a planned release in 2024. Their work has been published in professional journals spanning three disciplines\, and appears in popular venues including Scientific American\, The Boston Review\, TIME\, The Guardian\, and The New York Review of Books. In 2019\, Dembroff co-authored an amicus brief in support of gay and transgender employees\, which was submitted to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of over seventy philosophy professors. They have given over a dozen keynotes and named lectures\, and will be a panelist for the 2023 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Michigan. In 2022\, Britannica named Dembroff one of twenty “shapers of the future” under 40 in academia and ideas. \nThese are the activities with Professor Dembroff \nThe Inaugural St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Lecture   \nApril 18\, 4pm-6pm\, St Salvator’s Quad School II  \n‘Real Men on Top’  \nAbstract: Most people think that patriarchy is a matter of men versus women. Patriarchy is widely understood as a system that works to privilege men while subordinating women. In this talk\, Dembroff offers an alternative paradigm. Through this paradigm\, patriarchy is not taken to privilege men in general. Instead\, patriarchy is seen as reproducing the wealth and influence of men who conform to society’s most highly valued stereotypes of manhood. Patriarchy puts these “Real Men” on top.  \nArché Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar   \nApril 19\, 3pm-5pm\, Edgecliffe G03  \n‘Reimagining Transgender’  \nAbstract: ‘Transgender’ often is understood either as the name of an identity\, or else as a term covering the full spectrum of gender nonconformity. In “Reimagining Transgender”\, Dembroff advocates for recentering our understanding of ‘transgender’ on the experience of costly and willful gender deviance.  \n St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Graduate Student Masterclass   \nApril 20\, 11am-2pm\, Old Burgh School Lumsden Room  \n‘The Metaphysics of Injustice’  \nAbstract: Patriarchy and white supremacy are unjust social systems\, constituted by social practices that produce systemic gender injustice and racial injustice. Intersectional theory highlights that these forms of injustice are inseparable\, but what does this mean? In this paper\, Dembroff suggests that intersectional injustice is best explained by the overlap of unjust systems\, or when unjust systems are co-constituted. They argue that\, despite this overlap\, unjust systems can be individuated in terms of their essential ideologies.   \nThis masterclass is registration only. Places are still available\, so to register please email the organiser: Dr Jade Fletcher jef1@st-andrews.ac.uk. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/professor-robin-dembroff-will-be-visiting-the-institute-in-april-2023/
LOCATION:School II
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230306T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230306T180000
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SUMMARY:6th March: Laura Mulvey\, 'Flappers on film: the young modern woman in 1920s cinema'
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Film Studies and the St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies are delighted to welcome you to a guest lecture with Professor Laura Mulvey. \nIn this presentation Professor Laura Mulvey will revisit her long-standing interest in the flapper film. The energetic and self-sufficient young modern woman who emerged into city life and onto the screen in the 1920s first caught her attention as a possible antidote to the woman as spectacle\, discussed in her 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. The flapper’s image was\, by and large\, emblematic of an aspiration to economic and emotional freedom\, carried onto the screen\, by the mobility of the cinema itself in the late silent period. However\, this seemingly innocent image\, quickly picked up by Hollywood\, obscured certain social and ideological contradictions: in the US the concept of the young modern woman was not only de-politicised and highly commodified but she also embodied whiteness at home and facilitated the diffusion of ‘American-ness’ abroad. But\, at the same time\, urbanisation and modernity\, in various key cities across the world\, generated indigenous versions of the young modern woman\, in which she came to embody\, once again\, a social and iconographic emblem of both liberation and contradiction. With clips from contemporary films\, Professor Mulvey will raise how some of these issues materialised on late 1920s and early 30s screens. \n\n\n\n\nLaura Mulvey (born 1941 in Oxford) is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College\, University of London. She was Director of Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) from 2012 to 2015. She is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989); Citizen Kane (1992); Fetishism and Curiosity (1996); Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006); and Afterimages: On Cinema\, Women and Changing Times (2019). She has co-edited British Experimental Television (2007); Feminisms (2015); and Other Cinemas: Politics\, Culture and British Experimental Film in the 1970s (2017). Mulvey made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen\, including Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)\, and two films with artist and filmmaker Mark Lewis. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laura-mulvey-flappers-on-film-the-young-modern-woman-in-1920s-cinema-tickets-545998023787
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/6th-march-laura-mulvey-flappers-on-film-the-young-modern-woman-in-1920s-cinema/
LOCATION:School III
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230206T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230206T150000
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Seminar with Professor Jack Halberstam 6th feb
DESCRIPTION: \nIn light of the Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series \, the Gender Institute and the School of English invites you to a:\n \n \nPostgraduate Seminar with Jack Halberstam\nMonday 6 February\, 2-3.00pm\, Arts Building Lecture Room 003\nYou are warmly invited to join Jack Halberstam for an informal seminar discussion\, in advance of his Carnegie lecture. Please come prepared with your questions and comments!\nProfessor Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities; Director of the Institute for Research on Women\, Gender and Sexuality; and Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/post-graduate-seminar-with-professor-jack-halberstam-6th-feb/
LOCATION:Arts Building
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221104T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221104T160000
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SUMMARY:STAIGS Seminar Nov 4: Dr Zoë Shacklock\, The Category Is: Streaming Queer Television
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome you back to this year’s StAIGS (St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies) Seminar Series\, in which staff across the university will be sharing and discussing their work on gender-related topic. This semester we have two seminars\, which will both be in-person in School V. If you are interested in presenting next semester\, please let us know! \n \nFriday November 4th\, 2:30-4 pm: Dr Zoë Shacklock\, Department of Film Studies\n \nIn our first seminar\, Dr Zoë Shacklock will be discussing her work on streaming services and queer television. Please see below for the abstract\, and we hope to see you there! \n \nThe Category Is: Streaming Queer Television\nStreaming television is often seen as a progressive space for queer representation\, due to the wealth of queer people and stories found across its programmes. Yet for queer people to be seen on streaming television\, they must first be made visible at the level of the interface\, which determines which programmes are presented to users and in what ways. Through the organisation of the interface\, streaming television acts as a discursive formation that constructs knowledge about what it means to be queer. Borrowing from both Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lynne Joyrich\, I argue that streaming television constructs an epistemology of the category\, in which queerness is presented as categorisable and predictable. I explore how the two key features of streaming television’s interfaces – categories and algorithms – construct an understanding of queerness as normatively visible and inseparable from consumer choice. Yet while streaming giants construct a neoliberal understanding of normatively visible and consumable queerness\, queer-specific streaming services such as Revry offer a different\, “messier” understanding of queer lives\, suggesting that streaming television holds the potential of a more radical interface with queerness.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/staigs-seminar-nov-4-dr-zoe-shacklock-the-category-is-streaming-queer-television/
LOCATION:School V and Arts Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T200000
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SUMMARY:Jordan and Skinner present The Time Machine
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 13 October 2022\, 6.30pm \nPay What You Can £15.00 / £12.00 / £10.00 \nTickets: https://byretheatre.com/shows/jordan-and-skinner-present-the-time-machine/ \nRunning time: 1hAges 12+ \nAward-winning feminist theatre company Jordan & Skinner present this radical retelling of The Time Machine. \nIn a secret bunker\, a group of feminists are taking matters into their own hands as they contemplate impending doom and ask if it is all too late to turns things around. Meanwhile\, a traveller lands in the year 802\,701 to discover the fate of future humans and tries to unravel how it all came down to this. Join this fiery and furious company of extremists for a tale of time travel\, survival and human evolution in a bold and irreverent re-imagining of H. G. Wells science fiction classic. \n\nThe performance will be followed by a post-show discussion featuring the play’s director Caitlin Skinner\, members of the cast and St Andrews University feminist scholar Ana Guiterrez Garza and Zoe Shacklock from Film studies and Deputy director of STAIGs. 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/jordan-and-skinner-present-the-time-machine/
LOCATION:The Byre Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Jade Fletcher (School of Philosophy)
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-jade-fletcher-school-of-philosophy-2/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Jade Fletcher (School of Philosophy)
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-jade-fletcher-school-of-philosophy/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Ewan Bottomly (School of Psychology)
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-ewan-bottomly-school-of-psychology/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T200000
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SUMMARY:Current Contentions in Gender and Social Change. End of term event. 7th April.
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Gender Studies and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies would like to invite you to the end of term event. Current Contentions in Gender and Social Change.\n7th of April (in person) at St Andrews University \n15:00 – 16:00 in School V:  Climate Change and Gender by Dr Bridget Bradley (Anthropology Department).\n17:00 – 17:30 Alumni Research (Mlitt in Gender Studies) with talks on gender.\n17:30-19:30 Lecture: Trans History meets Trans Philosophy. Arts Lecture Theatre.\nWith the participation of Dr Katherine Jenkins and Professor Zoe Playdon in a conversation on the bridge between theory and lived experiences with regards to trans rights. Moderated by Dr. Ana Gutierrez Garza.\n19:30- 20:00 Wine reception\nCome and join us!! \nProfessor Zoe Playdon\n\nZoë Playdon is the Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of London. Educated at the universities of Newcastle on Tyne\, Leicester\, Warwick\, and at Henley Management College\, she holds five degrees\, including two doctorates. Trained as a historian and an archaeologist\, Zoë chose her third subject – English literature – as the starting point for her career as a classroom teacher at an inner-city comprehensive school. Subsequently\, she became a senior civil servant at the Department of Education and Science\, before moving to the University of Warwick as Chief Executive of its business consortium and head of Continuing Vocational Education. \n\n\nIn 1993\, Zoë transferred to the University of London\, as Professor of Postgraduate Medical Education and Head of Education at NHS Kent\, Surrey and Sussex Regional Postgraduate Medical Deanery. She is a former co-Chair of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists [GLADD] and\, with Dr Lynne Jones MP\, co-founded the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity in 1994\, which continues to meet. \n\n\nZoë has thirty years’ experience of front-line work in LGBTI human rights\, including legal cases\, where she has worked with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC\, Dame Laura Cox\, Ben Emmerson QC\, Stephanie Harrison QC\, and Lord David Pannick QC. \n\n\nZoë has written extensively in academic and legal circles. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes is be her debut mass-market book. \nDr. Katherine Jenkins in her own words\nI am a philosopher at the University of Glasgow\, specializing in social philosophy. I joined the department as a Lecturer in July 2020. Before that\, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College\, Cambridge.I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield\, and a BA and MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. \nMy research is primarily in social philosophy\, especially the ontology of social categories. I’m interested in how social categories such as races and genders exist\, and how these categories are bound up with systematic injustices. I’m also interested in feminist philosophy and critical philosophy of race more broadly\, in the philosophy of sex and sexuality\, and in social epistemology. Topics I have written about include rape myths\, pornography\, and gender identity. \nI am currently writing a monograph\, Ontology and Oppression: Race\, Gender\, and Social Construction which examines the nature of social categories that are bound up with oppression\, such as gender and race\, and the ways in which emancipatory social movements can best respond to such categories in view of the important role they play in many people’s identities. In it\, I argue that the very fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social group\, such as the group women\, can be wrongful\, and\, indeed\, oppressive. However\, I also show that identities based on these social group memberships can still be valuable.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/end-of-semester-event-day/
LOCATION:School V and Arts Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Sarah Gharib Seif (School of IR) "Beyond the ‘Jihadi Bride’"
DESCRIPTION:In 2015\, the ‘phenomenon’ of women traveling to join the Islamic State seemed to have taken over the news\, with regular mentions of disbelief of why they would decide to leave their ‘ideal’ Western lives to join a ‘barbaric’ terrorist group. Various attempts to engage with the roles these women have played (and media coverage of it) has focused on a shallow interpretation of agency (and its perceived presence or not)\, and depictions thereof. Moreover\, much of the existing literature on women involved in terrorism not only focuses on the personal\, but it treats the women themselves as the challenge for the existing parameters and policies set by the state\, whilst simultaneously avoiding how these policies are inherently gendered. This project seeks to move beyond this binary to interrogate how dominant state actors have been complicit in the creation of specific narratives around the women who joined IS. This project seeks to investigate how both media and government actors in the Anglosphere\, with a particular focus on the UK\, continue to create and perpetuate racialised and gendered narratives about these women in a manner which continues to sustain the dominant cultural order. Through postcolonial\, decolonial\, feminist\, and critical race theoretical positionings\, this project seeks to assess the role of the media and the government in othering these women through discourse and practice\, based on long-standing colonial\, racialised\, and gendered perceptions of ‘us’ vs. ‘Other’.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-sarag-gahib-seif-school-of-ir/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220316T203000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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SUMMARY:Lecture 16 March Migrations of Gender: Meditations on Mobility and Movement from the Commonwealth Caribbean
DESCRIPTION: \nMigrations of Gender: Meditations on Mobility and Movement from the Commonwealth Caribbean\nProfessor Violet Eudine Barriteau\nOn Wednesday 16 March 2022\, 6:30pm to 8:30pm\,\n  \nThis event is coordinated by the School of Art History’s Museum & Gallery Studies in collaboration with the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS). \n Professor Violet Eudine Barriteau is a Grenadian born Caribbean feminist\, scholar and activist with a distinguished record in research\, executive administration and educational leadership. She is Professor Emerita of Gender and Public Policy and the immediate past Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies\, a position she held for six years. Wednesday 16 March 2022\, 6:30pm to 8:30pmParliament Hall\, 66 South Street In-person Registration:https://professorveudinebarriteau.eventbrite.co.uk University Calendar:https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/migrations-of-genderthe-gender-of-migration-lecture-by-professor-v-eudine-barriteau/
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/1024/
LOCATION:Parliament Hall\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Catherine Cross (School of Psychology)
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URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-catherine-cross-school-of-psychology/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220212T142016Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Zoë Shacklock (Film Studies) "The Category Is: Streaming Queer Television"
DESCRIPTION:Streaming television is often seen as a progressive space for queer representation\, due to the wealth of queer people and stories found across its programmes. Yet for queer people to be seen on streaming television\, they must first be made visible at the level of the interface\, which determines which programmes are presented to users and in what ways. This paper argues that streaming television acts as a discursive formation that constructs knowledge about what it means to be queer\, and what recognisable queerness looks like. If queerness is interested in disruption\, destabilisation\, and mutability\, streaming interfaces\, conversely\, rely on predictability and categorisation. I explore how the two key features of streaming television’s interfaces – categories and algorithms – construct an understanding of queerness as normatively visible and inseparable from consumer choice. To borrow from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lynne Joyrich\, I argue that streaming media constructs an epistemology of the category\, in which queer life must be predictably categorised in order to be visible. 
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-zoe-shacklock-film-studies-the-category-is-streaming-queer-television/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
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SUMMARY:University of Leicester collaboration: Contemporary Television\, Gender\, Sexuality & Decolonising the Arts
DESCRIPTION:The University of Leicester is proud to be supporting the Students’ Union in hosting Dr Zoe Shacklock and Dr Ana Sol Gonzalez Rueda of the University of St. Andrews’ Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS) as they dive into their academic work and how it relates to queerness and decolonising. Come join on us for this online event on the 23rd of February 4-5pm. Tickets free!  
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/university-of-leicester-collaboration-contemporary-television-gender-sexuality-decolonising-the-arts/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
CREATED:20220126T142253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T120920Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Elise Watson "Gender\, Invisibility and the Circulation of Print in the Dutch Republic"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine annotation\, inscription and literary exchange among Catholic lay sisters in the early modern Dutch Republic. In a country where the public practice of Catholicism was illegal\, these women created community through writing on and sharing devotional books and single-sheet prints. Using surviving examples of these sources in context\, I will examine how the invisibility afforded by their gender and marginalised religious status actually enhanced these women’s access to illicit print in a society that marginalised them.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-elise-watson-school-of-history/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260621T103317
CREATED:20220123T184546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T091224Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Paul Fleig “Feminism and Media Archaeology”
DESCRIPTION:This brief presentation will explore a few recent and recurring examples of gendered technology through the lens of media archaeology. Over the last two decades\, media archaeology has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research exploring different historical intersections of media old and new\, digital and analogue\, futuristic and anachronistic. Against many media archaeologists’ attempts to separate technological hardware from sexuality or gender\, I will discuss recent and ongoing research on how and why different media have been gendered female\, with particular attention to the examples of telephonic/synthetic voices and audio-visual archives.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/research-seminar-paul-fleig-feminism-and-media-archaeology/
LOCATION:Psychology Room 1\, St Mary's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Byre - A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego (theatre show)
DESCRIPTION:A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego is a riotous new feminist physical theatre show\, from the maker’s of Fringe First winning production Sanitise\, that cuts to the bone of the current conversation around gender politics. Andrea has been giving her lecture but it’s not going well. Her previous events have been marred by protests and she’s hoping the open minded audience will hear her out. You see\, half the world are suffering under the weight of a great burden and if we don’t wake up to this problem everything will smash. And we wouldn’t want that now\, would we.\n \n\nIn person screening – Sunday 14th November\, 2:30pm\nOn demand – 15-18th November\n \n\nVisit byretheatre.com/upcoming for tickets. £10-16 pay what you can\n\n \nJordan  &  Skinner  are  a  theatre  company  who  want  to  see  a  world  in  which  women  take  up  space*. We are based in Scotland and lead by performer Melanie Jordan and director Caitlin Skinner. We make joyful performance about the stuff that makes us angry.  Our style is a mix of physical theatre\, clown\, dance\, politics and visual metaphor with an unapologetically militant intersectional feminist agenda.\n*by women we mean–  trans\,  cis\,  non  binary\,  gender  non  conforming\,  femmes\,  females\,  girls and more.
URL:https://staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-byre-a-brief-history-of-the-fragile-male-ego-theatre-show/
LOCATION:The Byre Theatre
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