Past events

This roundtable marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Women, Peace, and Security Agenda with a critical yet constructive lens. Find out more here.

Amid climate crises and social upheavals, sustainability offers both a challenge and an opportunity. Yet, dominant frameworks privilege technological and economic fixes and global climate architectures and sustainability frameworks are often complicit in perpetuating injustices. Find out more here.

Feminist and queer scholarship has very long histories of critical theoretical engagements with law and criminal justice. In this conversation, we bring together three legal scholars and thinkers to examine some key questions of law and gender and how these matter to imagining better worlds and futures. Find out more.

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This panel brings together a discussion on digital borders and queer migration, examining how technologies shape contemporary experiences of mobility, belonging, and exclusion. Find out more here.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Shirin M. Rai’s Depletion. The book examines the human costs of caring, how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation and how might they be reversed. Find out more here.

Join us for the launch of Aiko Holvikivi’s Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers. This new book examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in peacekeeping situations, and with what political effects. Find out more.

In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans* individuals, have grown in scope and intensity. The editors of this volume understand such attacks as a global force in need of urgent analytical and political attention. Find out more here.

Join us for an evening with Aslı Zengin, celebrated author of the recently published and award-winning book, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World. Find out more.

Join us for the launch of Asiya Islam’s ‘A Woman’s Job’. This new book explores the place and politics of women’s workforce participation in discourses of development, modernisation, and globalisation through the everyday lives of young women workers in urban India. Find out more.

Join us for a research relay on normativity in South Asian public culture engaging with J. Daniel Luther’s book Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only. This book offers a thematic examination of normativity as it impacts gendered and sexual subjectivity. Find out more here.

Join us for an evening with Susan Stryker, an intellectual cornerstone and historian in trans* studies; and Onni Gust, a cultural historian specialising in the colonial British Empire. This thought-provoking conversation will bring together diverse expertise to critically examine and address the urgent socio-political challenges of our time. Find out more here.

Join us for an evening with documentary filmmakers Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa, who will be talking to us about their project H24, a series they commissioned and directed for Arte TV. Find out more.

Why are critical criminologists calling for abolition now? This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability. Find out more.

Join us for the book launch of Dr Zeynep Kilicoglu’s Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment. This new book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s asylum organisations in the United Kingdom and France address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies. Find out more here.