Institute ofGender Studies

Institute of Gender Studies

ResearchSeminar Series

2016–17

Seminars (excluding March and April events) take place in Beswick 013 on the Parkgate Road campus, are open to all, and are free to attend.

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Paper title

27th October2016 5pm – 7pm Jo Turner

Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester

‘More a home than a refuge’: Battery House, Winchester

24th November2016

5pm – 7pm Jenny Slater

Department of Education, Sheffield Hallam University

School toilets, ‘development’, and queer disabled bodies

26th January2017 5pm – 7pm Kristin Aune

Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University

Representations of religion on the British feminist webzine ‘The F Word’

16th February2017 5pm – 7pm Timo

Obergoeker

Department of Modern Languages, University of Chester

Masculinity and pop culture in 1980s France and Britain

9th March2017

Emma Rees (Inaugural Lecture and Diversity Festival event)

Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester

Who broke feminism? The obligation of privilege

19th-22nd April2017 Talking Bodies

Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester

A biennial international, interdisciplinary conference on identity, sexuality and representation

11th May2017 5pm – 7pm Rebecca Collins

Department of Geography & International Development, University of Chester

‘No sex please, we’re naked’: Locating sanctuaries for the desexualised nude

8th June2017 5pm – 7pm

Students enrolled on the MRes in Gender Studies, 2016-17

Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester

MRes students showcase their dissertation plans in a series of short talks

For further information on any aspect of the work of the Institute, please contact igs@chester.ac.uk