About Assuming Gender
Assuming Gender is a Cardiff University project, comprising a journal, seminar, and lecture series. http://www. assuminggender.com
Assuming Gender Description
Assuming Gender is an electronic journal dedicated to the timely analysis of constructions of gendered texts, practices, and subjectivities. This journal seeks to continue and shift debates on how gender is problematized in contemporary discourses as well as participate in the dialogue and tensions that maintain the urgency of such conversations.
We feature cutting-edge research from a diverse range of methodologies and approaches to gender studies, and include work in feminist theories, queer theories, critical and cultural theory, literature, film studies, sociology and other relevant fields. As an online, open-access, international, peer-reviewed academic journal, we accept articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics and welcome critical debate across all fields of inquiry.
To support and extend the conversations that take place within our journal, we also organise a lecture and seminar series in Cardiff University. Details of such events will be posted on this site, and we hope to see you at one of our events.
Assuming Gender is based in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy (http://www. facebook.com/EncapCardiffUni), Cardiff University and is funded by the Cardiff University Graduate School in Humanities and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory (http://www. facebook.com/CardiffCCCT). We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their generosity and support, without which this project simply would not have been possible.
We hope you will participate in the dialogues and debates as readers and contributors.
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📢Important announcement! 📢 If you're planning on coming to our welcome meeting on Wednesday 10 October, please note that we will be in room 2.47 of the John Percival Building, NOT in the cafeteria as previously announced! Hope to see you there 😊
Dear all,
We are delighted to present our line-up of speakers and film screenings for this autumn. We hope to see you at some of these events! https://assuminggender.wordpress.com/…/ our-events-this-sem…/
Join us on the Wednesday 17th October for a very exciting guest paper from Kenneth Norwood (University of Southampton)!
Dear all, After a summer break, we are back with an exciting schedule of events for this autumn, including film screenings, presentations, and our traditional Christmas lecture! We hope to see many of you this year, but first of all we'd love you to come along to our welcome meeting which will be for new and returning board members. If you would like to be part of our team this year, please come to the cafeteria in John Percival Building on Wednesday 10th of October at 2.30pm.... We'll be discussing plans for this year, including:
- The themes of our future events, and what speakers we'd like to invite - Our next journal issue - Our 2019 conference - A potential reading group and workshop in semester 2 - And more!
Keep an eye on this space for more updates about our activities this year!
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If you would like to be part of our team this year, please come to the cafeteria in John Percival Building on Wednesday 10th of October at 2.30pm. We'll be discussing plans for this year, including:
- The themes of our future events, and what speakers we'd like to invite - Our next journal issue - Our 2019 conference... - A potential reading group and workshop in semester 2 - And more!
Whether you're just starting your Master's degree or your PhD at Cardiff, we would love to welcome you on our board! Assuming Gender started as a student-led project in 2008. It offers a rich space for theoretically informed debates around the hotly contested issue of gender and its place in society and culture, considered from a multidisciplinary perspective. You are welcome even if you're not based in ENCAP. Joining a research group is a great way to enhance your own work. Taking part in organising academic events and participating in a journal are also excellent ways to gain a better view of what it means to be a researcher. Last but not least you'll get to know other researchers based in ENCAP!
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Our next Film Screening 😊🎥
Join us for a screening of Sophia Coppola's 'The Beguiled' (2017). We will have a short, informal discussion of the film following the screening and as always cinema-style snacks (popcorn, biscuits, chocolates etc.) will be provided!
You can see a trailer of the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBoLK5z_F Ho
Happening tomorrow 😊🎥 All are very welcome!
Our next Film Screening! 😊🎥 All are very welcome!
We're delighted to invite everyone to a screening of George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ on the 25th of April! This is a co-screening with @alixbeeston's 'Object Women in Literature and Film' module 😊 3:15pm in room 0.31, John Percival Building, Cardiff University. All are very welcome and cinema snacks (popcorn, chocolates, biscuits etc.) will be provided!
Happening tomorrow! 😊 all are very welcome 😊
All are very welcome to come along to this fabulous screening of 'Lemonade' which is co-hosted with Alix Beeston's 'Object Women in Literature and Film' module 😊🎥🎶
We're delighted to invite everyone to a screening of Beyonce's 'Lemonade'! This is a co-screening with @alixbeeston's 'Object Women in Literature and Film' module 😊 All are very welcome and cinema style snacks (popcorn, chocolates, biscuits etc.) will be provided!
Happening today!! Come along and see this beautiful, unsettling film 🎥
Our next film screening 😊🎥
Join us to watch Lucile Hadžihalilović's 'Evolution' (2015)! We'll have an informal discussion of the film following the screening and cinema style snacks will be provided. All very welcome!