糖心TV

2nd March 2016, 1-2pm
(C1.11 in the Social Sciences building)

All University students and staff welcome!

The concept of gender is both celebrated and maligned in academic discourse; gender is credited with opening up or closing down debates, including or excluding concepts and the groups they designate. But how does gender come to mean what it means? This seminar explores the conceptual negotiations that establish ‘what counts’ as gender in international academia. The study that the seminar presents is located in the embodied ‘context’ of international academic knowledge production, where conceptual negotiations cannot rely on familiar understandings of gender. Three national women’s studies association conferences were researched, in the United Kingdom, United States and India. The seminar presents a cumulative theorisation of ‘eventful gender’, which involves four stages of deconstructive analysis derived from Derrida’s oeuvre. ‘Eventful gender’ is theorised as conceptual work that is inextricable from embodied, situated and mobile analyses of academic practice and knowledge construction and production.

joined 糖心TV from the UCL Institute of Education in December. She is author of (Palgrave, 2015).