Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

The Reading Group has been transformed into the CGIS Discussion Group — a combination of work-in-progress and reading group sessions.

All welcome – staff and students.
Please share widely to anyone you think would be interested.

Theme: “Sources and Methodologies”

17:00 - Research Brief Encounters
All staff, students, and early career researchers from any discipline are encouraged to attend this informal, fun and sociable event to meet and chat about research. Undergraduates who are developing/considering dissertations on gender, identity and subjectivity are also warmly invited to join us.
Various Speakers

11:30 - CGIS Reading Group: On the theme of ‘Gendered mobilities’
Please read in advance: • Thomas Faist, ‘The Mobility Turn: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences?’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36:11 (2013), pp. 1637-1646. • Ceri-Anne Fidler, ‘The Impact of Migration upon Family Life and Gender Relations: the case of South Asian Sea-Farers, c. 1900-1950’, Women’s History Review, 24:3 (2015), pp. 410-428. • Nancy L. Green, ‘Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender’, Gender & History, 24:3 (2012), pp. 782-789.
Various Speakers

17:00 - SPECIAL LECTURE:‘The Scorpion’s Lash: Gender and the Making of an Imperial Anthropocene in Victorian Afghanistan’
Antoinette Burton (Illinois University)

11:00 - WORKSHOP: ‘Global and Comparative Feminisms in the long 19th century’
Various Speakers

11:30 - ‘“Something to Declare”: Travel and the Postcolonial Queer’
Churnjeet Mahn (Strathclyde University)

12:30 - CGIS reading group: On the theme of ‘LGBTQ studies’.
This session is kindly being chaired by Professor Dan Healey, Professor of Modern Russian History, St Antony's College. • Ann Cvetkovich, 'In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings’, in An archive of feelings : trauma, sexuality, and lesbian public cultures, (London, 2003), Chapter 7. • David M. Halperin, ‘Introduction: In Defense of Historicism’ in How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago & London, 2002). • Charles E. Morris, ‘The Mourning After’, in Remembering the AIDS Quilt, edited by Charles E. Morris, (East Lansing, 2011), pp. xxxvi-lxix.
Various Speakers

11:30 - ‘Mothers on the Move: Gender, Slavery, Law, and Space in Nineteenth-Century Cuba’
Camillia Cowling (University of Warwick)

11:30 - The Limits of “White slavery”: Migration, anti-alienism, and the dominant discourses of trafficking in turn-of-the-century England’
Rachael Atwood (Westminster University)

11:30 - Special reading group for International Women’s Day 2017
• Professor Lyndal Roper will be discussing: Natalie Zemon Davis ‘Women on Top’ in Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, 1975), pp. 124-51. • Professor Ruth Harris will be discussing: Judith Walkowitz, ‘Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence’, Feminist Studies, vol 8 , 1982, pp. 542-78. • Dr Rachel Moss will be discussing: Judith M. Bennett ‘Medievalism and Feminism’ Speculum, vol. 68, no. 2, 1993, pp. 309–331.
Various Speakers