New article by Ros Gill in Australian Feminist Studies

AFS Journal ‏‪@AFSJournal New issue due out soon with lead article by ‪@RosalindGillLdn + Shani Orgad on the ‪#confidence culture ‪#feminism

More talks from Ros: Kent and Warwick

CCI’s Ros Gill was out and about on International Women’s Day and susbsequent days. On March 9th she spoke at ESRC’s Gendered Inclusion series at Canterbury, looking at postfeminism in the workplace. On Saturday March 12th she gave the closing keynote at Let’s Hear it for the Girls, at Warwick University, discussing the way girls…

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A tribute to Doreen Massey

Jo Littler has co-written a tribute to theorist and activist Doreen Massey, who died on Friday, for Open Democracy, which can be read here

Jenny at Open City Lagos events: book launch + workshop

On March 4th, Dr Jenny F Mbaye participated in the book launch of “Open City Lagos” (www.opencitylagos.com), edited by Monica Umunna and Ore Disu. The launch was jointly organised by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (ng.boell.org) and Nsibidi Institute (www.nsibidiinstitute.org) and hosted by the Goethe Institute at City Hall, Lagos (Nigeria). Jenny took part in the “Conceiving the Open City…

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‘Porn Trouble’: article by Laura García-Favaro published

CCI PhD Candidate Laura García-Favaro has just had an article published in Australian Feminist Studies entitled ‘Porn Trouble’: On the Sexual Regime and Travels of Postfeminist Biologism. The article looks at peer-to-peer discussions and editorial content about men’s consumption of pornography in women’s online magazines based in the UK and in Spain. The analysis shows how…

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Andy gives a seminar at Cambridge

Porf Andy Pratt gave a seminar in the Department of Architecture and the History of Art, who are hosting the City Seminar Series (on March 1st). Andy gave a paper called Resilience and the urban cultural economy. The paper was based upon one published recently in City, Culture and Society, and a paper that Andy…

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Sexual violence on campus: screening + talks

On February the 27th, the Gender and Sexualities Research Forum hosted a screening of The Hunting Ground – a powerful and harrowing documentary on sexual violence on US campuses and institutional failure to support affected students. Although a difficult watch, those attended were moved by the powerful stories told by survivors and by those campaigning for change….

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Jo gives talk at Royal Holloway

This week Jo Littler gave a talk based on work from her forthcoming book After Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility  to staff and postgraduate students in the Department of Law — which includes Sociology and Consumption studies — at Royal Holloway, University of London.