Lse Gender

Take a look at our full Events Programme for Michaelmas Term, and sign up on Eventbrite.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/events

we are recruiting for three different and permanent gender studies posts:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/вА¶/assistant-prof essor-in-gender-and-вА¶
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/вА¶/assistant-prof essor-in-gender-and-вА¶
... https://www.jobs.ac.uk/вА¶/professor-in-g ender-conflict-and-rвА¶
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Response to populist attacks on Gender Studies:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/news

https://www.facebook.com/712260289/posts/ 10160747041765290/

https://www.facebook.com/664289774/posts/ 10156028366919775/

https://londonfeministfilmfestival.com/вА ¶/lfff-2018-programвА¶/

https://www.ceu.edu/вА¶/professor-andrea- peto-awarded-2018-alвА¶

a final reminder: our last event of the academic year! http://www.lse.ac.uk/вА¶/Introducing-emer ging-gender-researchвА¶

Event organised by and featuring Leticia Sabsay on the 31st May: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-c olloquium-on-populвА¶

UCU Strike: Solidarity in Times of Crisis
The Department of Gender Studies stands in solidarity with colleagues participating in the UCU industrial action over pensions (https://www.theguardian.com/вА¶/lecturer s-begin-14-day-strikeвА¶)
We support our striking colleagues because:
... We do not accept the proposed reductions in the value and security of pensions. This is an unnecessary attack on a shared good which will leave everyone who pays into the USS worse off, especially those at the beginning of their careers. We understand the issue of pensions (as well as pay) to be a gendered and intersectional matter affecting women and minorities more than other workers. Erosion of pension security disproportionately affects early career and precarious workers. We value the right to collective voice of university workers whose intellectual, pastoral, and administrative labour makes the very existence of the higher education sector possible. We back our colleagues and UCU in the call for employers to return to meaningful negotiations and lament the lack of political participation represented by LSE union members' failure to return their ballots.
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Deeds Not Words: the story of women's rights then and now
Date: Friday 9 February 2018 Time: 18.00 to 20.00 Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
... In 2018, on the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women - the Fourth Reform Act, which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time - suffragette descendant and campaigner Helen Pankhurst charts how the lives of women in the UK have changed over the last 100 years. In her new book, she celebrates landmark successes, little-known victories, where progress has stalled or reversed, looking at politics, money, identity, violence, culture and social norms. The voices of both pioneers and ordinary women - in all their diversity - are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand and strengthen feminist campaigning and with aims for the future. This is an event in LSE Library's series of activities marking the centenary of some women getting the vote in 1918.
Speakers: Dr Helen Pankhurst is a Research Fellow at LSE Department of Gender Studies and CARE international's senior advisor. Professor Mary Evans is the LSE Centennial Professor at the Department of Gender Studies.
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Much feminist research emerges against the backdrop of personal, activist, and professional investments in the 'field'. As researchers, our entanglements with the 'field' precipitate complex sets of ethical and epistemic dilemmas that both inform and complicate our intellectual and political commitments in important ways. Through a panel discussion, three PhD researchers will interrogate how their relationships with the objects, subjects, and networks that constitutes their r...espective 'fields' influence their work, challenging taken for granted notions of what the 'field' means in its entanglements with the personal and the political.

Speakers:
Magda Muter: Magda is a first year PhD student at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. She holds a MA in Sociology and in European Studies from the University of Warsaw, and a MA in Management from Warsaw School of Economics. Prior to her PhD, Magda worked in strategic consultancy. She will be talking about transitions from one вАШfieldвАЩ to another, moving from business world to academia in the context of her PhD research, which looks at changes (and the process of decision-making connected with them) in the division of labor between partners, when having their first child.

Hannah Wright: Hannah is a second year PhD student at the Department of Gender Studies. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Gender and International Relations from the University of Bristol. Prior to joining LSE, Hannah worked as a policy adviser on gender, peace and security issues for an international peacebuilding NGO, where she conducted research and analysis on gender and conflict in the Middle East, North Africa, South and Central Asia, as well as doing advocacy toward national and international policymakers. She will speak about her research on the gendering of organisational cultures in government departments responsible for foreign/security policy, and how these shape approaches to international peace and security.

Louisa Acciari: Louisa started her ESRC-funded PhD at the Department of Gender Studies in 2014, exploring the process of unionization of domestic workers in Brazil and their struggle to be recognised as workers. She holds an Msc in Comparative Politics from Sciences Po Paris, and an Msc in Gender Research from the LSE. She will talk about the spaces in-between academia and activism, her involvement in the field with domestic workers' organisations, and the different ways she tried to give back to her participants in Brazil.
This event is not ticketed and guests are admitted on a first come, first served basis.
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help victims of Worboys https://mmusylviapankhurstgenderresearch. wordpress.com/вА¶/mвА¶/

This talk draws on a collection of 500 postcards, showing women working in traditionally male occupations and professions at the beginning of the twentieth century. 400 of these postcards are from France and 100 of them are from other European countries. After explaining how the collection was assembled, the paper analyses this set of postcards in relation to various sources (particularly cultural, statistical, judicial, and police-related archives) pertaining to the access o...f women to traditionally male occupations. In the 1900s, the first female drivers, bill-posters and coachwomen were an event in themselves, around which passers-by would form crowds. For women, to openly carry out traditionally male occupations was perceived by the mass media as being a вАШfeminist eventвАЩ attracting photographers and cinematographers. The entertainment industry produced shows featuring characters inspired by these women. This paper analyses the different dimensions of the construction of this event and tries to understand the opposite case of women who worked in traditionally male trades but who weren't at all featured in the newspapers or by any visual media. Commenting on the collection mentioned above, this session also aims to discuss the various uses of visual archives вАУ as well as their limitations вАУ in the study of history of gender and labour.
Juliette Rennes is Reader at the √Йcole des Hautes √Йtudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she is a member of the Centre dвАЩ√©tude des mouvements sociaux. Drawings on historical sources (1880вАУ1940), her first book (Le M√©rite et la nature, Paris, Fayard, 2007) examines the genealogy of legal discrimination against, as well as of feminist struggles by, women within the labour market in modern France. She extended this work in her book Women in Male Occupations: A Visual History of Gender and Work (forthcoming in English in Sept. 2018 [2013]). Furthermore, she recently organized a large exhibition at the Mus√©e de lвАЩHistoire Vivante de Montreuil on this topic. In addition to her research, she contributes to the organization and dissemination of gender studies in France. She is the Co-Director of the MA programme in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the EHESS in Paris, and she recently edited The Encyclop√©die critique du genre (Paris, La D√©couverte, 2016).
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Can the pleasures of young Palestinian women from refugee camps in promenading on the Beirut seaside Corniche on a warm summer evening be political? Or days spent at women-only beaches? If so, how do we understand such pleasure as everyday practices, as a politics of the present moment, or conversely (or simultaneously) as mechanisms of being co-opted into a broader apparatus of consumerist ideology and capitalist complacency? Drawing on ethnographic research over 2 years I a...rgue that these moments of pleasure are caesuras in the massive apparatus of power вАУ welded from strands of work, neoliberal practice, nationalist certitudes and political exclusion вАУ which binds these women. These acts of pleasure cannot easily be categorised as вАШresistanceвАЩ but I argue that they should not facilely be considered reinforcements of hegemonic control either. They are momentary and ephemeral recognitions of ordinary life lived in hard times, attempts at clawing back an instant of joy from the drudgery of the everyday, and a surrender to the enjoyment of conviviality in public and urban spaces. If they are at all political, they are so because such conviviality is ever harder to sustain in the calamity of hopelessness that characterises so much politics today.
Research Seminar delivered by Laleh Khalili Professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Chaired by Leticia Sabsay, Assistant Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture, LSE Gender
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Save the date for next year! Watch sample HOPE & FEAR footage at: https://vimeo.com/189925512

new Call for Papers - Gendering Memory 3/2019 http://journals.sagepub.com/вА¶/Call%20fo r%20papers-GenderingвА¶

Crisis Politics and the Challenge of Intersectional Solidarity Akwugo Emejulu, University of Warwick
How might we transform the ways in which we think about вАШcrisisвАЩ, вАШactivismвАЩ and 'solidarity'?
... Drawing on my new co-authored book, Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press 2017), my talk explores the asymmetrical impacts of austerity measures on women of colour and their strategies for resistance in Scotland, England and France. Taking seriously women of colourвАЩs anti-austerity activism makes visible the complex politics of solidarity in each country. As I will argue, because the dominant representations of both the 2008 crisis and austerity measures erase women of colour's experiences, this has a profound impact on the ability of women of colour activists to mobilise affective and material resources to combat their persistent precarity and to support their radical grassroots work.
That many women of colour activists insist on an intersectional analysis of the crisis and austerity and practice a politics that names interlocking forms of inequality вАУ racism and gender inequality and poverty accentuated by the crisis вАУ this represents a fundamental challenge to the prevailing logic of what constitutes a crisis and what counts as activism. I will argue, learning from the oftentimes dismissed and delegitimised activism of women of colour opens up new possibilities for rethinking solidarity and coalition politics in this unstable political moment.
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