Ngender: Gender and Sexuality Related Research Seminar Series at Sussex brings together postgraduate and early careers scholars working with gender as a theme or focus of their work. We aim to share ideas across departments and disciplines, and create a sense of community particularly among scholars not affiliated to traditional gender studies courses. This year, for the first time, we are supported by RLI funding and plan to host two special events throughout term. Visit the blog ngender.wordpress.com/ for further details.
The seminars take place every Tuesday, 1-2pm, in Arts B 274. Refreshments will be provided.
January 22nd: Emilomo Ogbe, Institute of Development Studies
‘The Construction of The Nigerian Identity’: The Intersections of Enforced Heteronormativity and Colonialism
January 29th: Claire Bennett, University of Sussex & Dr Sibel Safi, University College London
Lesbian Asylum Seekers: Talking about ‘Violence’ and ‘Sexuality’ During the Legal Asylum Process. Honour killing asylum applications of Turkish asylum seekers in the UK and the asylum gender gap
February 5th: Morna Laing, London College of Fashion
Nostalgic Glue: ‘Re-unifying’ the Female Subject through Childlike Femininity
February 12th: Divya Mehta, University of Sussex
History as Gendered Archetype in Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz
February 19th: Novidayanti Hayid, University of Sheffield & Maria Corral Fernandez, University of Sussex
Waria and Islam in Indonesia: How do Warias negotiate their gender and sexual identity? Palestinian queers in Israel/Palestine: political concerns and potential challenges to the status quo
February 26th: Gilda Nunez, University of Barcelona
Deprivation and drug dealing: a comparative study from the female perspective
Week of 8th March: Special Event for International Women’s Day
Information to follow
March 12th: Ieva Seryte
Femme Bloggers: Construction, Representation and Dynamics of Identity Politics Online
March 19th: Lorena Fuentes, Birkbeck & Laura Joyce, University of Sussex
Bringing Political Economy Back-In: Theorizing the Femicides of Maquila Workers in Guatemala. Reproducing Violence: Rihanna, Chris Brown and the Aestheticization of the Ciudad Juarez Femicides
March 26th: Padmini Iyer, University of Sussex
Gender, sexuality and schooling: a feminist critical discourse analysis of a new sex education curriculum from Delhi, India
April 9th: Anais Bertrand-Dansereau, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Falling in love with participatory research: the ups and down of researching love with young people in Malawi
April 17th, End of term special event: Naomi Booth, University of Sussex
Succumbing to the Power of Capital: Female Masochism and the Retrograde Swoon in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy with discussant Rachel Wood, University of Sussex