UCCGS Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture: Michaelmas 2022

On Monday 7 November Professor Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor, Clark University, held the UCCGS Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture on Making Feminist Sense of the Ukraine War at the Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge.

The sheer brutality of the Russia-provoked war in Ukraine can tempt us to shove aside gender analysis, as if it were trivial, best left to some post-war later era. Nonetheless, feminist studies of multiple armed conflicts - from World War I to the recent current wars in Ethiopia and Colombia - have taught us that the time to start investigating the militarized workings of femininities and masculinities is before the first gun is even fired. Ukrainian feminists are among those now conducting this crucial gender analysis.

Recording of lecture available here.