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WGQ Centre
The Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History (WGQ), (formerly known as CGIS) is a thriving community of students and scholars engaged in research on gender, class and identity and the broad area of emotions, psychology and subjectivity. We host a range of events throughout the academic year including seminars, workshops and reading groups.
To subscribe to the WGQ mailing list, please email mailto:wgq@history.ox.ac.uk or send a blank email to mailto:wgiq-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk. You can also email mailto:wgq@history.ox.ac.uk to request Microsoft Teams links for seminars.
For up-to-date information on events, check our website cgis.history.ox.ac.uk and follow us on: Twitter @CGIS_Oxford
Please do get in touch with WGQ if you have any questions or would like to get invovled: mailto:wgq@history.ox.ac.uk
HT2026 Theme: WGQ in the Archives: Dearth, Remnants, Glut, and Fragments
Women’s, gender and queer historians have relied on innovative reading methods from the beginning, as they sought to bring forward hidden or subordinated subjects, or to read in between the lines and against the grain. For this Hilary term’s WGQ research seminar, we investigate the reading dilemmas and opportunities raised by archival fragments, remnants, glut, and fragments. Doing so can build on various terrain – from reading ‘along the bias grain’ (Marissa Fuentes), to ‘informed speculation’ (Saidya Hartman) to ‘re-membering’ (Saylesh Wesley/Jamey Jesperson) evidence of past lives to the present.
Each week (with the exception of week 4) will have two contributions. Contributors pre-circulate short text(s) (max 8 pages) related to the theme. At the beginning of the seminar, they present their text(s) for 5-10 minutes. Invited respondents make a response of their own choosing (e.g., read their own text, bring in archival finding/object, verbal response etc) (5-10 mins). Followed by general Q & A.
Note: The series anticipates the Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes Collective event on June 9 in Trinity term.
Type: None
Series organisers:
Lyndal Roper,
Hannah Skoda,
Julia Mannherz,
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci,
Matt Cook,
Sarah Knott
Timing: Various - see individual events
Web Address:
https://cgis.history.ox.ac.uk/
Organising department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Wednesday 4 March 2026
By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 12 March 2026
Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
Date: 12 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker
s:
Sara Johnson (UC San Diego),
Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers:
Sarah Knott,
Matt Cook,
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci,
Julia Mannherz,
Hannah Skoda,
Lyndal Roper
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
