The CIVIS Gender Studies Network – GSN launches the CIVIS gender studies lectures, aimed to bring together and make visible ongoing gender research carried out in the CIVIS member universities.
The seminars, open to the entire CIVIS community, will take place monthly in an online format.
The first event, entitled The Female Turn: How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, will take place Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 5 pm (CET). Speaker is assoc. prof. Malin Ah-King, from the Stockholm University. More details about the subject of the seminar and about the speaker are available on the CIVIS webpage, here.
The next seminars programmed till the summer of 2023 will take place as following:
Wednesday, 15 martie 2023, 5 pm (CET): Dealing with disrespect: How women attribute experiences of unequal treatment. Speaker: prof. Marion Müller, from Tübingen University. More details about the subject of the seminar and about the speaker are available on the CIVIS webpage, here
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 5 pm (CET): Growing Up Queer in Contemporary Greece: Tactics of Everyday Life. Speaker: PhD candidate Yulie Papadakou, from University of Athens. More details about the subject of the seminar and about the speaker are available on the CIVIS webpage, here.
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 5 pm (CET): Female Genital Mutilation or Modification? The socio-legal conundrums of the international zero-tolerance approach. Speaker: assoc. prof. Sarah O’Neill, from the Université libre de Bruxelles. More details about the subject of the seminar and about the speaker are available on the CIVIS webpage, here.
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 5 pm (CET): Women in American Studies: History of a Discipline from a Gender Perspective. Speaker: prof. Ralph J. Poole, from the Salzburg University. More details about the subject of the seminar and about the speaker are available on the CIVIS webpage, here.
All seminars are organised digitally on Zoom and hosted by Minerva – Laboratory on diversity and Gender Inequality at Sapienza University of Rome.
To receive a Zoom link and passcode, please register before the seminar by writing to emil.edenborg@gender.su.se.
More information about the programme of the seminars can be accessed on the CIVIS events webpage, here.
CIVIS is a European University Alliance gathering 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European Universities pilots, it brings together around half a million students and more than 70 000 staff members, including 37 400 academics and researchers.