International Gender Studies Centre Seminars Hilary Term

               

GENDER AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC,

              CIVIL & SOCIAL SURVIVAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2010 Hilary Seminar Series, Thursdays 2-3:30 p.m.

  Queen Elizabeth House, 3, Mansfield Road, Lecture Room 3.

 

Week 1 Nancy Lindisfarne SOAS

Jan 21st . Writing Ethnography: A Welsh Miner’s Story

Week 2 Shirley Ardener  QEH/ISCA

Jan 28^th Money-Go-Rounds (ROSCAs):Cameroon Diaspora 2009

Week 3 Daria Ukhova   St Hildas College

Feb 4th Maternal and Child Healthcare in 21st Century Soviet Russia

Week 4 Deborah Fahy Bryceson  IGS/University of Glasgow & 

Feb. 11^th         Richard Sherrington, University of Cambridge

'Miners' Magic: Fetish Creation in Tanzanian 

Artisanal Mining'

Week 5 Alison-Louise Kahn  Linacre College

Feb. 18^th         Captured by Women: Unveiling the lost film archives from 

                            the Pitt River’s Museum 

Week  6          Marianna Leite, Visiting Fellow, IGS

Feb. 25^th          Power, Violence and Health in Rio de Janeiro

Week 7                          International Women’s Day:  

March 4^th                        GRASS ROOTS AND GLASS CEILINGS

Becky Ayebia Clarke, Ghanaian Publisher specialising in Afro-Caribbean Writing

                 African Identity in the Modern World

                                                Mette Berg, ISCA -  

             The Rise (& Fall?) of Academic Careers for Women

Week 8 Elena Schak St. Anthony College

March 11^th,       Women and the Law: Is there Justice for Women?

Convenors: Jacqueline Waldren and Marianna Leite