Centre for Gender History

Semester 1:

 

Wednesday, 7 October, 4pm — Centre Welcome Event
Location TBA and Teams

 

Monday, 12 October, 2pm — Prof Durba Mitra (Princeton)
‘The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism’
Teams only

 

Monday, 19 October, 1pm – Dr Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
‘Researching Homophobia and Transphobia in Colonial Contexts: Sudan, 1899-1956'
Humanities Research Hub (1 University Gardens) and Teams

 

Monday, 2 November, 1pm — Prof Susan Pedersen (Columbia)
‘Lady Frances and Lady Betty Object: The Family Politics of Women's Suffrage’
Humanities Research Hub (1 University Gardens) and Teams
Co-sponsored with Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies

 

Thursday, 5 November, 4pm — Prof Onni Gust (Nottingham)
'A Tale of Two Montagues: trans studies, colonial knowledge, and the Scottish Enlightenment'
409 Boyd Orr and Teams
Co-sponsored with Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies and Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies

 

Monday, 9 November, 1pm — Dr Louise Brangan (LSE)
'The stories we tell: Why we can't remember the Magdalene Laundries’
Humanities Research Hub (1 University Gardens) and Teams

 

Monday, 16 November, 1pm – Dr Sydney Sheedy (Concordia)
Title TBC
Teams only

 

Monday, 30 November, 1pm — Global Histories of HIV/AIDS Activism 
Dr Nikos Papadogiannis (Stirling), 'Community HIV testing and Black African activists between the UK and sub-Saharan Africa in the 2000s' 
Dr Giulia Sbaffi (Stirling), ‘Blackness, migration and sex work activism: TAMPEP and the politics of race in 1990s–2000s Italy’
Humanities Research Hub (1 University Gardens) and Teams

 

Seminar convenors: Sarah Cockram, Annalisa Martin, Sam Rutherford, Christine Whyte

 

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Research seminar and work in progress sessions are hybrid: Zoom links will be circulated via the Centre Moodle page in advance of each session.

Any questions, please email arts-genderhistory@glasgow.ac.uk 

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First published: 1 November 2025