Upcoming seminars of University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Upcoming seminars of University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies will include:
“The New Menopausal Subject” byProfessor Catherine Rottenberg who works in the areas of feminist theory and feminist media studies, with a particular focus on neoliberal feminism and the politics of care. The seminar will discuss how menopause has not only become a key site of popular neoliberal feminism but also one through which the contemporary struggle over how we (should) perceive gendered embodiment - particularly sex, gender, and bodily existence - is being played out.
The seminar will be held in person in S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, as well as online via Zoom at 12.30 pm, Monday 9 February 2026. For online attendance registration in advance is required. Registration can be done on this link.
The registration will close at 09.00 on Monday 9 February 2026.
“Blurred Violence: Exploring the Politics of the Misogynist Involuntary Celibate Community” by Dr Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, Postdoctoral Researcher at Goldsmiths, on the HORIZON-funded project You-DARE (Youth Debunking the Gendered Arguments of Far-Right
Extremism). The seminar will conceptualise 'online violence' as blurred violence - violence that we can observe but for which no one is taking responsibility.
The seminar will be held in person in S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, as well as online via Zoom. For online attendance registration in advance is required. Registration can be done on this link.
The registration will close at 09.00 on Monday 16 February 2026.
“Is 'victim-survivor' our imperfect alternative to describing people with lived experience of sexual violence? Exploring the meaning behind identity labels for victim-survivors using arts-based methods” by Dr Laura Jane Bower, Lecturer in Criminology and Victimology, University of Portsmouth.The seminar will explore how all language is utilised by victim-survivors, showcasing artwork they have created, considering how ethnicity, gender and disability interact with language choice.
The seminar will be held in person in S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, as well as via Zoom. For online attendance registration in advance is required. Registration can be done on this link.
The registration will close at 09.00 on Monday 23 February 2026.
“Staging Black Masculinities” by Dr Elizabeth Robles Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, University of Bristol.Her research is focused on the histories of Black and Brown artists in British Art History, with a particular focus on the period from 1960-the early 1990s. Her paper will consider how Faisal Abdu’Allah’s I Wanna Kill Uncle Sam… (1993) and Chris Ofili’s Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars (1997) engage Black Atlantic cultural forms to interrogate 1990s discourses around fixed forms of black masculinity and diasporic identities.
The seminar will be held in person in S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, as well as via Zoom. For online attendance registration in advance is required. Registration can be done on this link.
The registration will close at 09.00 on Monday 9 March 2026.
