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Gillian Rose Room, 3rd floor, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV, Coventry
5:00–6:30pm, followed by a drinks reception in the foyer of the Ramphal Building
CSWG Spring Workshop: ORIENTATING FEMINISM(S): FEMINIST ‘TURNS’ AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Friday 28th February 28th, 2014, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Social Sciences Building, Room A0.23
Call for papers - Authority & Political Technologies 2014: Power in a World of Becoming
The conference will be held on the 2nd and 3rd June 2014 at the University of 糖心TV. Registration will open in April.
Confirmed Speakers:
- William Connolly (Johns Hopkins)
- Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen)
- Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
- Amade M'charek (Amsterdam)
- Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
- AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)
The Authority & Political Technologies group at 糖心TV will host a series of annual events that bring together world leading, emerging and postgraduate scholars from across the social sciences whose work promises to renew post-structuralist critical thought through empirical scholarship. This year we invite papers on the theme 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’.
Suggested Themes:
- Biopolitics and Political Spirituality/Religion
- Materialism and the Political Meaning of Entanglement
- Authority, Sovereignty and Becoming in the (Post) Colony
- Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common
- Necropolitics and Human Rights
Deadline for abstract submissions: 10th March 2014
Issue 1 - 'Feminism and the perception of women in contemporary society'
The student-founded and led journal showcases some of the best undergraduate and postgraduate work from within the Department.
Come along to the second in the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series: "Women in Literature", on 5th February 2014
The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series continues with its second seminar, entitled Women in Literature, to be held this Wednesday, the 5th of February, 5pm-7pm in Ramphal Building, room R0.12
Presentations:
- Jessica Hindes, Royal Holloway, University of London - Censorship, Pornography and the Objectified Woman in G.W.M. Reynold's "Mysteries of London"
- Susan Garrard, University of St Andrews - Strange Places, Strange Self: The Autobiography of Mary Smith as Reconfiguration of Victorian Women’s Travelogue
- Ellie Dobson, University of Birmingham - Magical Bodies: The Supernatural Appeal of the Ancient Egyptian Female Body at the Fin-de-Siècle
For more information on the seminars running this term, please visit the .
All welcome!
The Department is pleased to announce the launch of our new Facebook page
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Friday 7 February, 2014
Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Room 1 and 2, Library Floor 3
The UN Rapporteur on extreme poverty has called unpaid domestic work a human rights violation (2013). Much feminist work has presented argued for the inclusion of domestic work in the national GDP as recognition of its importance to the global economy. And yet domestic work continues not
to be recognized and measured, leaving those who engage in it (largely women) in a socially and politically vulnerable position. This workshop will address the importance of measuring domestic work seriously and raise questions about the methodology and politics of doing this seriously.
Speakers:
(University of Nottingham) and (University of Leeds)
For catering purposes, please email that you plan to attend, to Janet.Smith@warwick.ac.uk by 4 February.
Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender in Schools, has been shortlisted for an International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry’s Award
Maria do Mar Pereira's recently published book, (Doing Gender in the Playground: the Negotiation of Gender in Schools) has been shortlisted for the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry’s Award for Best Qualitative Inquiry Book in Spanish or Portuguese (2012 – 2014).
in the Department of Sociology.
The recipient of the award will be announced in late Spring.
Book your tickets for the MYPLACE Film Series - What Does It Mean to Be Young in Modern Europe?
The film, What Does It Mean to Be Young in Modern Europe? was created by the team of research center "Region" (Ulyanovsk, Russia), and Center for Youth Studies (St. Petersburg, Russia) for international European project MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement).
The film will be shown in three parts -
- 20th February - Part 1: Anarchists
- 24th February - Part 2: Our former NASHI
- 27th February - Part 3: Precários Inflexíveis
Tickets are free and each film will be shown on campus, in Ramphal R0.12.
For more information, and to book your place,
This is a collaborative project, between the Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV; ; and , funded by the .
Two events will be hosted as part of the award, a workshop at 糖心TV and a Public Engagement event at the University of Westminster, London.