Events

School VI, 5pm - 7pm The lecture is concerned with reimagining peacekeeping, which starts with a return to critical theories and concepts in order to acknowledge the production of gendered, racial and classed inequalities in peacekeeping relations. In particular, critical concepts from gender theory such as standpoint and intersectionality, alongside postcolonial and critical race theories…

Thurs 7 Nov, 10-12pm, Edgecliffe G03 Our capacity to form sophisticated social groups has been essential to our survival both individually and as a species. Coordination in groups has allowed us to surmount the difficulties posed to us as organisms that are individually very weak and physically vulnerable relative to other large mammals. In this…

Thursday, November 14, 17:30-20:30 Location: Byre Theatre Studio Film: Lipstick Under My Burkha Director: Alankrita Shrivastava India | 2016 | 117 minutes | Hindi w/English Subtitles | 18 Session hosted by: Shruti Narayanswamy, Department of Film Studies   Set in the crowded by-lanes of small town India, Lipstick Under My Burkha chronicles the secret lives…

Naluwembe Binaisa (London) "‘Releasing’ photographs: gender, care, and solidarities through the public sphere in Nigeria" Friday 11am – 1pm, Social Anthropology Seminar Room 50

***We apologise that this event has to be postponed! We will reschedule it at a later date.***   Edgecliffe Room 104 from 1-2pm (Coffee/tea from 12:30pm) The internal speaker (brown bag) series will have short informal talks about common topics to promote interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations. Each speaker will give about a 7-10 minutes talk…

Wednesday November 20, 4 – 6 pm, Edgecliffe G03. Extracted Speech: Being Made to Speak (led by Sophia Rommel) Abstract: Imagine you are a woman sitting in a tutorial, discussing a seminal text with your group. You desire to point out how the author’s argument entails implicit gendered assumptions. You look around the room and…

Fri 22 Nov from 2pm – 3pm in OUB Forrest Room: Topic: Whiteness.   The topic is Whiteness, and the suggested readings are: Ruth Frankenberg, '"White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism": A Women's Studies Course Exploring Racism and Privilege',Women's Studies Quarterly Vol 18, No 1/2 (1990): https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004034?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=au%3A&searchText=%22Ruth+Frankenberg%22&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fsi%3D1%26amp%3BQuery%3Dau%253A%2522Ruth%2BFrankenberg%2522%26amp%3Brefreqid%3Dsearch%253A6213e9bd74c227ab39f67b5df46fde8c&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4802%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A86564157b1bec1bee4080461d7b34af9&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Audre Lorde, 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House',…

**This Event is Postponed. Further information will be provided when the event is rescheduled.** 3 December: Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography. With the authors Paloma Gay y Blasco (Social Anthropology) and Liria Hernández. 12:30-2 pm.

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (Vancouver) "Deception and Valid Consent"   Friday, 6 December; 2pm to 4pm; Edgecliffe G03. "When all goes well, one’s agreement to φ constitutes valid consent to φ. If I agree to your doing X to me, for instance, and all goes well, then I waive any right I had against your doing…

Wednesday, December 11, 16:00-19:00 Location: Byre Studio Film: El Hombre, Cuando Es El Hombre / A Man, When He is a Man Director: Valeria Sarmiento Chile | 1982 | 66 minutes | Spanish w/ English subtitles Session hosted by: Dr Isabel Seguí Fuentes, Department of Film Studies & StAIGS.     Set in Costa Rica,…

Wed 18 Dec from 2pm – 3pm in OUB Forrest Room: Topic: TBA.