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Enhance

These sessions are for enhancing your education at LSE Gender through targeted professional development, academic support and cohort socials.

Alumni: Many Enhance sessions are open to alumni, email gender@lse.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

Current students: Registration links and locations can be found via your Student Hub calendar or in the departmental newsletters.

Upcoming events:

Info and Q&A Session on Marking Criteria and Degree Classification

WT WEEK 2: Monday 26 January 11.45am-12.45pm

During this session, our Deputy Head of Teaching, Dr Sadie Wearing and Exam Board Chair, Professor Wendy Sigle, will cover the Department of Gender Studies Marking Criteria and how LSE degrees are calculated. This will be a useful session to attend before receiving feedback on your first summative assessments. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about this. No need to sign-up, just come along. This session won’t be recorded.

🍕 Welcome Back to LSE Gender Winter Term Social (with Pizza!) 🍕

WT WEEK 2: Friday 30 January 5.30-7pm

Following on from your GI499 degree specific peer-to-peer dialogues, we’ll get together for pizza in the Department.

The Department of Gender Studies Town Hall

AT WEEK 3: Wednesday 4 February 11.30am-12.30pm

Ahead of your SSLC meetings with your Programme Directors, the Town Hall is an opportunity to come together with the wider LSE Gender community and ask any questions you may have for the Department Leadership Team, led by our Head of Department, Professor Sumi Madhok, and our Department Manager, Henrietta Burr. You can pre-submit a question to gender.manager@lse.ac.uk, or just come along to raise any questions or comments you’d like to discuss. Hope to see you there!

Practitioner Talk with Marvi Memon: GEN AI and gendered approach to policy reforms leading to model legislation

WT WEEK 4: Tuesday 10 February 6-7.30pm

We’re excited to welcome Marvi Memon, former Social Protection Minister Pakistan, current World Bank Advisory Council Member Partnership for Economic Inclusion and CEO of the Legislative Alliance for Women Empowerment Protection, for this practitioner talk chaired by Dr Zuzana Dančíková. Marvi will speak about her experience of GEN AI and gendered approaches to policy reforms, leading to model legislation. Marvi is also happy to discuss her broader experience as an experienced practitioner in the field, including on topics such as Feminist Policy Making, Gender and social protection programmes, and breaking gender barriers in governance. Please sign-up here to attend.

In conversation with filmmaker Céline Sciamma

WT WEEK 5: Tuesday 17 February 6-7.30pm

In this conversational session with renowned French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, students are invited to ask questions about filmmaking as a profession, the film industry more broadly, or their own career interests within the field. Céline Sciamma will give an introduction on her own experience of working in the industry, before opening the floor to questions. Please come along!

Journal publishing workshop with Ghiwa Sayegh

WEEK 8: Wednesday 11 March 12-1.30pm, Zoom

Sign up here.

Ghiwa Sayegh is the editor of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, which is a queer, radical, open-source publication from the South, with an emphasis on West Asia, and North Africa. We’re really excited that they have agreed to run a workshop as part of our Enhance programme on the experience of founding and running this journal in times of global crises, ongoing genocides, and anti-Muslim, anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist discourse and policy. Exploring questions of queer anti-colonial, collective praxis, funding, desire and the importance of tarot, Sayegh will provide unique insight into the nuts and bolts as well as the vision that are needed to sustain a publication like Kohl as a political and intellectual project for our times. For a taste of the journal, click here for the latest issue, ‘Queer (Non)Futures’.

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