Recent Visiting Fellows and Professors include:
Previous Visitors to the Gender Institute
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously based in Women's Studies at Lancaster, her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds, as well as institutional cultures. Her publications include: Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Postcoloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) and The Promise of Happiness (2010).
In February 2011, Sara gave a public lecture co-hosted by the Gender Institute and the Department of Media and Communications. For more information on this lecture, please click here.
Dr Nkoli Aniekwu
Nkoli Aniekwu was a Visiting Fellow for MIchaelmas Term 2010. She teaches Legal Method and Research at the Department of Public Law, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. Her book Legal Methodology and Research in Nigeria was described by Professor Susanne Karstedt of the School of Law, University of Leeds as "a classic text in empirical and legal research methods."
Nkoli Aniekwu is a member of the Management Board of the Centre for Gender Studies and former Head, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Benin.
In November 2010 Nkoli gave a research seminar at the Gender Institute entitled Domesticating Cairo And Beijing: Prospects And Opportunities For Legal Obligations To Reproductive Rights Protection In Nigeria.
Elena Beltran
Elena Beltran was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute for Michaelmas Term 2012. She is member of the Department of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She was member of the board of directors of the Department of Public Law and Legal Philosophy and of the Law School. Now, she is member of the board of directors of the Women Studies Institute and she is the Chair of the Committee of Equality in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She was Visiting Scholar at the Human Rights Direction in the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg; at New York University School of Law (1989 and 1998); at Boston College; and at the Institut de Theorie du Droit, Paris X.
She has written on issues of contemporary theories of justice; liberalism and its critics; critical legal studies; feminist jurisprudence; constitutional building of sexual equality; gender and citizenship; education; gender and multicultural challenges to liberal democratic institutions; the meaning of respect for religious and non-religious; prostitution and women rights. She is currently working on property rights and human bodies, especially women bodies.
Rachel Berger
Rachel Berger is Associate Professor of History at and Fellow of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is, by training, a historian of medicine and the body in South Asia, and has worked on the history of Ayurvedic medicine in the context of late colonial biopolitics, Hindi-language discussions of gyneacology and reproductive medicine in interwar India, and the visual culture of consumption in the subcontinent. Her current South Asia-based research project takes up the history of food and nutrition in interwar and early post-colonial India, focusing on the emergence of new food economies, a shift to preventative medicine and the evolution of consumption in North India. A second project explores the concept of intimacy as it is deployed in Indian vernacular representations of sexuality and the body, focusing particularly on recovering the subject from its abstraction into the greater work of nation-building. Rachel has long-standing scholarly and activist interests in queer lives (in theory and practice), reproductive politics, and questions of power in relation to the formalization of political and activist practices. As such, she is excited to use the opportunity of being in feminist community at the LSE to begin new research on evolving discourses of 'choice', especially with regards to questions of reproduction and coupling set against the backdrop of homonationalism and neoliberal economic life.
On Wednesday 13 March 2013, Dr Berger presented a research seminar at the Gender Institute: "Love" Makes a Family? Unconventional Baby-Making, Homonational Affects, and New Terrains of 'Choice' in Neo-liberal times. Free and open to all.