Gender Institute research seminar and public lecture series

2008/2009 PROGRAMME

Only confirmed seminars/public lectures are listed - everything is open to all with no reservations required. For further information please contact our academic events coordinator.

Monday 3 November 2008 6pm
Gi Research Seminar
New Theatre, East Building

Robyn Wiegman
Professor, Women's Studies and Literature Duke University

Knowing What We Mean

abstract

Thursday 6 November 2008 4pm
Gi Research Seminar (D311 Clement House)



Jennifer Nedelsky
Professor of Law
University of Toronto
: chair: Anne Phillips; discussant: Nicola Lacey

Rights and the Fully Human Self

abstract

Wednesday 12 November 6.30pm
Gendering the Social Sciences Public Lecture
Hong Kong Theatre



Wendy Brown
Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley: chair: Anne Phillips

Desiring Walls

abstract

mp3 recording

4th February, 2009 6.30pm
Gendering the Social Sciences Public Lecture
Hong Kong Theatre


Lauren Berlant
George M. Pullman Professor University of Chicago
: chair: Clare Hemmings; discussant: Sadie Wearing

After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the Precarious Present

abstract

mp3 recording

17th February, 2009 6pm
Gi Research Seminar D502 Clement House

Kathy Davis

Professor, Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht

chair: Clare Hemmings

Feminism as Traveling Theory: the Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves

abstract

11th March, 2009 6.30pm
Gendering the Social Sciences Public Lecture
Hong Kong Theatre

Ratna Kapur
Professorial Fellow, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations and Director, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi: chair: Sumi Madhok

Hecklers to Power? The Waning Tools of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in South Asia

abstract

mp3 recording

17th March, 6pm
D502 Clement House

Culture of Rights Panel Discussion with

Kate Nash, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths
Comparing Cultural Politics of Human Rights

and

Sumi Madhok, LSE Gender Institute
Notes on Vernacular Rights Cultures

chair: Kalpana Wilson

28th April, 2009 6pm

Gi Research Seminar D502 Clement House

Vron Ware
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Open University

discussant: Rosalind Gill, Open University

chair: Clare Hemmings, LSE Gender Institute

The New Literary Front: Reading the Girls of Riyadh

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Gender Institute research seminar and public lecture series

2008/2009 PROGRAMME

Only confirmed seminars/public lectures are listed - everything is open to all with no reservations required. For further information please contact our academic events coordinator.

Culture of Rights Panel Discussion with

Abstracts

Biographies