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
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
Friday 02 March 2012, 10am-5pm
One-day Undergraduate Dissertation Symposium
Research Beehive, Room 2.22
For further information, contact Anne Graefer
Tuesday 27 March, 4–5.30pm
'A Feminist Perspective on Equality'
Professor Eva Feder Kittay, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University/SUNY
Research Beehive 2.22
Followed by Wine Reception, PEALS (4th Floor Claremont Bridge Building)
Any queries contact: Janice McLaughlin
Monday 02 April 2012
One-day conference: Bodies of Evidence: Crime, Gender & Representation
Keynote Speaker: Dr Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton)
Presented in association with the Crime Studies Network
For further information, contact Katherine Farrimond
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
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
For further information, contact: moving@ncl.ac.uk
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
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
Thursday 17 May, 3-5pm
Postgraduate Speed Dating Event
Room 2.20, Research Beehive
To book a place, please contact Emily Nicholls (e.nicholls@ncl.ac.uk), and include your research title, department, stage of study and year, along with a 300 word summary of your project.
Thursday 24 May, 7.00-10.30pm
LOUDER NOW! "Eat the Kimono"
Star and Shadow Cinema http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/918
Eat the Kimono is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality.
Guest Speaker: Dr Nobuko Anan (Northumbria University). Dr Anan's main research interests are modern and contemporary Japanese theatre/performance and visual arts, and the way that they intersect with nationhood and gender/sexuality in transnational contexts. LOUDER NOW! is a monthly night of film screenings and discussions of a feminist nature and is brought to the Star and Shadow with support from The Gender Research Group at Newcastle University.
All LOUDER NOW! events are free to attend (although £1 membership to the Star and Shadow is required).Everybody is welcome!
Friday 25 May 2012, 1-6pm (followed by a wine reception at Northern Stage)
One-day Symposium: Representations of Slavery in Neoliberal Times
Research Beehive, Room 2.20, Old Library Building, Newcastle University
This symposium brings together speakers who address neoliberalism, contemporary slavery and modern slavery through the concept of representation (visual, affective, cultural and media).It is hosted by Media and Cultural Studies, the Postcolonial Research Group and the Gender Research Group at Newcastle University.
Speakers:
Professor Marcus Wood, School of English, University of Sussex
Film Performance and the Memory of Slavery in Very Liberal Times Professor Lubaina Himid, Centre for Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire
Negative Positives: The Guardian, The Slave, The Wit and The Money
Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham
Debt, Freedom and Slavery in Neoliberal Times
Roundtable participants:
Dr. Kate Manzo (Politics, Newcastle),
Dr. Diana Paton (History, Newcastle),
Dr. Rachel Wells (Fine Art, Newcastle)
This is a free event, but places are limited. To book a place, please contact: Carolyn Pedwell: carolyn.pedwell@ncl.ac.uk
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
Thursday 28 June, 7.30pm
Privilege
Further information: http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/917