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Prof Andrei Markovits is at ÌÇÐÄTV as a Visiting Fellow in IAS. In this seminar he will talk about the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Association Football on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas the women in North America entered a field that was virtually open for them since men busily covered the playing fields and cultural space of the hegemonic team sports of baseball, football (American and Canadian), basketball and ice hockey; their European counterparts were forced to contest what has arguably been the most male-dominated space in European public life throughout much of the 20th century. Both of these roads harbored immense obstacles. Both entailed challenges of their own that these pioneering women had to overcome. However, spurred by the massively important and popular World Cup tournaments, the last three decades have led to a rapprochement of developments on both sides of the Atlantic by catapulting women's soccer onto hitherto unexpected, maybe even unimaginable heights.

He has written a book on the subject.

Andy is the Karl W Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies and an Arthur F Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

All are welcome to this seminar. Drinks and nibbles will be available afterwards. No registration necessary.

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure to warmly invite you to attend a talk by an internationally renowned feminist criminologist: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Her paper is entitled: ‘Women in conflict with the law and the criminal justice dance’. The talk is organised by Professor Azrini Wahidin and the Criminal Justice Centre, Co-directors: Dr Ana Aliverti and Professor Vanessa Munroe.

Date: 29th May. Room: S2:09. Lunch 12.30

The research seminar will start at 1pm and last for an hour -preceded by a buffet lunch at 12.30. The seminar format is quite informal, structured around a 30 minutes presentation and the remaining time for questions. The seminar will be held at Faculty of Social Science, in the Law School.

‘Women in conflict with the law and the criminal justice dance’

This seminar will focus on the rather erratic developments in regard to criminal justice policy concerning women over the years, making particular note of steps forwards and backwards and what is now needed for policy and practice development. The seminar will briefly highlight what we know about 'what works' with women, but also what else we need to know in order to make advances in thinking and practice.

I look forward to seeing you there,

Professor Azrini Wahidin

Loraine Gelsthorpe was born in North Nottinghamshire, England, although she spent some early years of her life in Germany (her mother was German).

Loraine is Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and has worked in the Institute since 1994. She had studied at Sussex University to begin with, followed by training and then working as a social worker for a three-year period. What was intended as a one year stay at the Institute of Criminology to study for the M.Phil in Criminology turned into four and a half years when she was persuaded to do a PhD as well, relinquishing the opportunity to serve as a probation officer in Bristol. Post-doctoral appointments at Lancaster University, Bangor University and then the LSE then took her into London to study social work and police decision-making in regard to young offenders, five different prisons to study prisoners’ experiences of different prison regimes in England, and then into different probation areas to look at race and gender issues in pre-sentence reports (once called social inquiry reports).

Loraine has wide ranging interests: criminal justice decision-making and sentencing, women, crime and criminal justice, policy developments relating to women, and ‘what works’ with women, and more generally community penalties, and the links between criminal justice and social justice. She is currently doing research on deaths under community supervision, and on a community housing and support project for women leaving prison. Loraine is a member of the Government’s HM Inspectorate of Probation Advisory Committee, and a Fellow of the Probation Institute in England and Wales. She is also a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Research Advisory Committee, and a member of the 2021 REF sub-committee: Social Policy & Social Work. Loraine is also a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP registered and accredited).

Loraine has an extensive publications list, including chapters in successive Oxford Handbooks of Criminology, and the Routledge Handbook of European Criminology. Her most recent book is: Research Ethics in Criminology edited by M. Cowburn, L. Gelsthorpe & A. Wahidin, A. (Eds) (2017) (London: Routledge). See also: Gelsthorpe, L. (2018) ‘After Corston: community, change, and challenges’ in L. Moore, P. Scraton and A. Wahidin (eds) Women’s Imprisonment and the case for abolition. Critical Reflections on Corston ten years on. (Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge) and Gelsthorpe, L. and Russell, J. (2018) ‘Women and Penal Reform: Two steps forwards, three steps backwards?’ Political Quarterly, 89, 2, pp 227-236.

As part of Prof. Mary Hawkesworth's visit to ÌÇÐÄTV (jointly organised by PAIS, Sociology and CSWG, and funded by the IAS) we are organising a series of events, including this mentoring and networking session for feminist social scientists.

Colleagues are warmly welcomed to attend this event. It is open to PhD students, early career researchers (including teaching fellows and research assistants) and assistant and associate professors. The event will be chaired by Prof. Akwugo Emejulu (Sociology).

As part of Prof. Mary Hawkesworth's visit to ÌÇÐÄTV (jointly organised by PAIS, Sociology and CSWG, and funded by the IAS) we are organising a series of events, including this public lecture.

The talk will consider manifold ways that the state directly and indirectly engages in violence against women, LGBT and racial minorities - themes developed in Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings, which will be published by Polity (U.K) in January. This lecture will be chaired by Prof. Shirin Rai (PAIS).