This hybrid event brings together a panel of speakers from the LSE Department of Gender Studies and the Gender Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, in conversation about the contours of feminist knowledge production and representation in different social, political, material and institutional contexts.
In what ways do epistemologies of gender and feminism open up new modes of knowing and being, and where do they become entangled in, or complicit with, established power structures, including within the neoliberal academy?
How should we understand the centre and the margins of contemporary feminism, and of gender studies? What are the differences that matter in how we reproduce and/or contest feminist knowledge in activism and scholarship?
This public event is free and open to all but registration is required here. If you'd like to join virtually, please do so via Microsoft Teams using this link.
Meet our speakers and chair
Kavita Maya is a Research and Outreach Fellow at the Royal Holloway Gender Institute, and a member of the Feminist Review Editorial Collective. An interdisciplinary gender studies scholar, her research and writing focus on the co-constitution of race, gender, coloniality and nationalism in the post-Christian Goddess and Pagan movements, and on using arachnean metaphors to untangle white feminist textual practices in contemporary spirituality, politics and counterculture.
Kat Gupta (they/them) is a Lecturer in Political Communication at Royal Holloway University of London. Their research uses corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis to explore representation, marginalisation and power, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, and intersections of these with other identities. They are the author of Representation of the British Suffrage Movement (Bloomsbury 2015) and co-editor of The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives (Routledge 2020) and Non-Binary Lives: an anthology of intersection identities (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020).
Aiko Holvikivi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies. Her research interests relate to transnational movements of knowledges and of people, and how these are produced by and productive of gendered and racialised (in)security. Her forthcoming book monograph titled Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers examines epistemologies of gender training and will be published by Oxford University Press.
Sadie Wearing is Associate Professor in Gender Theory, Culture and Film in the department of gender studies. Her work primarily examines the ways in which cinema, literature and popular culture reflects and contests wider cultural dynamics and includes questions of gender, sexuality, public and private memory, national identity, aging and ableism. She is the co-author with Niall Richardson of Gender in the Media (2014) and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (2015). Her forthcoming book, Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Post-war Britain, is co-authored with Yvonne Tasker.
Laura Sjoberg is British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations and Head of the Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research addresses issues of gender and security, with foci on politically violent women, feminist war theorizing, sexuality in global politics, and political methodology. She teaches, consults, and lectures on gender in global politics, and on international security. Her work has been published in more than 50 books and journals in political science, law, gender studies, international relations, and geography. Dr. Sjoberg’s recent books include International Relations’ Last Synthesis? (Oxford, 2019), and (with Jessica Peet) Gender and Civilian Victimization. Her recent articles have explored failure in critical security studies, characterizations of women in and around the Islamic State, what counts as feminist work in Security Studies, sexuality in US-Cuba rapprochement, gendered insecurity, and everyday counterterrorism.
More about this event
This book launch is being co-hosted by the Department of Gender Studies and is a part of our 30th Anniversary calendar of events. The department pioneers intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational teaching and research, addressing the tenacity of gendered power relations and gendered inequalities in times of global transformations. Established in 1993, LSE Gender is the largest Department of Gender Studies in Europe.
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