Gender Research Group

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Semester 1

Wednesday 05 October 2011
Research Seminar: Dr Shona Hunter (Leeds University) Power Politics Emotions: Impossible Governance
Research Beehive Room 2.22
Presented in association with the Sociology Seminar Series


Friday 25 November 2011, 10am-4pm
One-day Symposium: Early Modern Recipe Books: Women’s Social Networks and Domesticity/Science/Medicine
Research Beehive Room 2.20
Presented in association with the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group
For further information, contact Emma Short
Programme


Wednesday 30 November 2011, 5.30pm
Research Seminar: Dr Alexander Edmonds (University of Amsterdam) Sexual Capital
Research Beehive Room 2.22
Presented in association with the Sociology Seminar Series and Americas Research Group

Semester 2

  1. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 7.00pm
    Film Series Launch Event: LOUDER NOW! Feminism on Film
    Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne.
    Presented in association with the Star and Shadow Cinema, curated by Rebecca Knight

    Further events in the LOUDER NOW! Film Series
    LOUDER NOW! Poster



  2. Friday 02 March 2012, 10am-5pm
    One-day Undergraduate Dissertation Symposium
    Research Beehive, Room 2.22
    For further information, contact Anne Graefer


  3. Monday 02 April 2012
    One-day conference: Bodies of Evidence: Crime, Gender & Representation
    Keynote Speaker: Dr Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton)
    Location and times TBC
    Presented in association with the Crime Studies Network
    For further information, contact Katherine Farrimond


  4. Thursday 12 April 2012
    One-day Postgraduate Symposium: The Popular and The Middlebrow: Women’s Writing 1880-1940
    Keynote Speaker: Professor Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton)
    Percy Building, Newcastle University
    Presented in association with the Long Nineteenth Century Research Cluster, School of English and supported by the Catherine Cookson Foundation
    Register and pay conference fee
    For further information, contact: middlebrow-conf@ncl.ac.uk


  5. Friday 13 – Saturday 14 April 2012
    Two-day International Interdisciplinary Conference: Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
    Keynote Speakers: Alexandra Peat (Franklin College, Switzerland) and Avril Maddrell (University of the West of England)
    Percy Building
    Presented in association with the Long Nineteenth Century Research Cluster, School of English and supported by the Catherine Cookson Foundation
    Register and pay conference fee
    For further information, contact: moving@ncl.ac.uk

  6. Thursday 26 April, 7.30pm
    don’t need you: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
    Guest Speaker: Dr Julia Downes (Durham University)
    Further information: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/916


  7. Friday 04 May 2012
    One-day symposium: Acting their Age: Women, Aging and Popular Cinema
    Keynote Speakers: Dr Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton) and Dr Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics)
    Research Centre for Film & Media, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
    For further information, contact Rebecca Knight


  8. Thursday 24 May, 7.30pm
    Eat the Kimono
    Guest Speaker: Dr Nobuko Anan (Northumbria University)
    Further information: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/918


  9. Friday 25 May 2012 (time TBD)
    One-day Symposium: Representations of Slavery in Neoliberal Times
    Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University
    Presented in association with Postcolonial Research Group and Media and Cultural Studies


  10. Friday 15 – Sunday 17 June 2012
    Three-day International Conference: Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)
    Keynote Speakers:
    Dr Helen Berry (Newcastle University)
    Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)
    Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary, University of London)
    Professor Richard C. Sha (American University) Presented in association with the Long Nineteenth Century Research Cluster, School of English and the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
    For further information, contact: taking@ncl.ac.uk


  11. Thursday 28 June, 7.30pm
    Privilege
    Guest speaker: TBC
    Further information: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/917




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