Hungary | 1975 | 89 minutes | Hungarian Hosted by: Prof. Dina Iordanova, Department of Film Studies Adoption is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It tells the story of Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one.
Exploring qualitative research methods and theoretical frameworks to advance the research on the intersectionality of female entrepreneurs Building on previous successful events held in 2018 and 2020 on Re-thinking female entrepreneurship, we are pleased to announce a two-day conference on qualitative research methods and theoretical frameworks to advance the research on the intersectionality of female…
This workshop will focus on the question of whether policy and practice of race/ethnicity in HE sector in the UK is about the least possible change without disrupting the existing status quo or is it about bringing about meaningful structural and cultural change/transformation. In bringing together leading academics and practitioners from the UK, the aim…
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Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh will speak on: ‘Gender history, Global history, and Atlantic slavery’.
Please plan joining us for a workshop + screening to celebrate the work of remarkable Soviet/Ukrainian feminist director Kira Muratova (1934-2018). Kira Muratova, who worked mostly in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, is one of the most innovative, imaginative, exciting and versatile directors to emerge out of the Soviet Union, where her early films were censored and her…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…