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Past Events - 2008/09

  • Bedrocks and Beyond: the launch of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality
    A drinks reception and dialogue on issues of gender and sexuality in critical, personal and political perspectives
    Monday 21st January 2008, 5.30 – 8.30pm  @  Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WCIE 7EX

  • BIGS & the College Gender Group present:
    Professor Joan Wallach Scott (Princeton)   'Cover-Up: French Gender Equality and the Islamic Headscarf'
    Wednesday 23rd January 2008, 12.30pm - 2.30pm  Room 101, 30 Russell Square

  • 'NORMATIVITIES'
    BIGS was pleased to present the first in a series of seminars designed to provide a forum for postgraduate students working on issues relating to gender and sexuality to present their ideas to one another in a relaxed and supportive environment.
    Caroline Walters: 'Safe, Sane, Consensual': A Discourse that attempts to normalise BDSM?
    Carly Guest: 'Heterosexual Bodies: Women's Discussion and Construction of their Heterosexualities'
    Eleanor Wilkinson and Katherine Ludwin: 'The Annual Festival of Homosexual Misery: Taking Pride in Gay Shame'
    Tuesday 4 March 2008 from 6.30pm - 8.30pm in Room 354, Malet Street, Birkbeck

  • BIGS Postgraduate Event: Seminar Series  SEXUALITIES: Politics & Practices
    This seminar series followed on from a recent seminar at the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.  The seminars aim to provide participants with opportunities to engage in conversations across different disciplines, to encourage new ways of thinking, and to help identify questions for future research.

    Seminar One: Religion, sexuality and education
    Pam Alldred (Youth Work Studies, Brunel)
    Gordon Lynch (Professor of Sociology of Religion, Birkbeck)
    Wednesday 5 March 2008, 12.30pm - 2.30pm  Room B04, Malet Street, Birkbeck, University of London


    Seminar Two: Homophobia and bullying
    Daniel Monk, School of Law, Birkbeck
    Ian Warwick, Senior Research Officer, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education
    Wednesday 24 April, 12.30pm - 2.30pmSeminar Room, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London

  • BIGS & College Gender Group   Lecture at the Department of Gender Studies
    Speaker Dr. Lanfranco Aceti  -  En-Gendered Obligations: The Imposition of Assimilation
    Tuesday 22 April 2008 from 12.30pm - 2.00pm  Room 407, Malet Street, Birkbeck
    The lecture was followed by a screening of:  Medea  Directed by Pierpaolo Pasolini, Italian Cinema Screening Series
    The New Cinema at 43 Gordon Square WC1 22 April 2008 from 2:30pm - 5.00pm

  • Inaugural BIGS Guest Lecture  Professor Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California)
    'Bees, Bio-Pirates and the Queer Art of Cross-Pollination'
    Thursday 15 May 2008, 6.30pm - 8.00pm  Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speaker: Aiofe Monks,  Kiss me, I'm Irish: Performing Gender in St Patrick's Day and Riverdance
    Date: Wednesday, 1 October 2008  Time: 12.30-2.00pm  Room: Birkbeck College, Room 251, Malet Street

  • Seminar Series with at the Institute of Education  Autobiographies of gender research: Feminist Futures
    Speaker: Stephen Frosh
    Date: Thursday 6 November 2008 Time: 5.30 - 7pm Venue: Room 541, IoE

  • Special Event To mark World Aids Day on 1st December BIGS invites all interested academics and post-graduate students to meet each other and to talk briefly and informally about your interests.
    Date: Wednesday 26th November 2008 Time: 12.30-2.00pm Room: B29, Malet Street

     

  • Seminar Series with at the Institute of Education  Autobiographies of gender research: Feminist Futures
    Speaker: Valerie Hey
    Date: Thursday 27th November 2008 Time: 5.30 - 7pm Venue: Room 541, IoE

  • Queer Age Study Day
    A free workshop on queer studies today, sponsored by the FLL Literature Certificate Programme and the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality
    Informal ‘taster’ sessions that examine different perspectives on and moments in the histories, fictions, performances and theories of queer lives. Speakers included Heike Bauer, Jonathan Kemp, Aoife Monks and Paulina Palmer.
    Date: Saturday 6 December 2008  Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm  Room: 153, Birkbeck College, Malet Street (entrance on Torrington Square)

     

  • Film Seminar  Jerusalem is Proud to Present
    BIGS and the Thomas Coram Research Unit will be showing the documentary  ‘JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO PRESENT’ followed by a panel discussion.
    Date:  Monday 8th December 2008 Time: 6pm  Venue:  Institute of Education

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speaker: Karen Wells, Development Studies  Memorialising violent death in London: the ethical demands of grievable lives
    Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2008  Time: 12.30-2.00pm  Venue: Birkbeck College, Room 252, Malet Street

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speaker: Becky Taylor (History)  We're all Classed, but what about Gender? Making Liveable Lives in Contemporary England
    Date: Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 12.30-2.00pm Venue: Birkbeck College, Room 252, Malet Street

  • Artist Seminar  -  O.B. De Alessi (Chelsea College of Art)For Today I am a Boy Playing Gender Identity
    Date: Monday 16 February, 6pm  Venue: Room 407, Birkbeck College, Main Building (entrance Torrington Square)

  • Reading  -  Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 – 1914
    In celebration of  LGBT History Month and the publication of the paperback edition of London and the Culture of Homosexuality
    Date: Monday 23 February, 7pm  Venue: Gays the Word bookshop, 66 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB

  • Discussion  George Ives (1867 – 1950) Queer Lives and the Family
    A free talk by Matt Cook about the homosexual law reformer to mark LGBT History Month
    Date: Thursday 26 February 2009, 2-3pmVenue: The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU

  • BIGS Postgraduate Seminar Genderblinding": how to obscure gender in narrative
    Speaker - Malcolm Wilson 
    We looked at literary strategies for making a mystery of the gendered subject. As well as a wide survey of texts and theoretical frameworks, the focus was on 'James Miranda Barry' by Patricia Duncker and 'Written on the Body' by Jeanette Winterson. We also looked at cinematic strategies and work on a text in need of "genderblinding" and showed some short film clip.  A few pieces of reading material were sent out before the seminar, as prompts for discussion.
    Date: Wednesday 4 March, 7-9pm  Venue: Room 102, Clore Management Centre

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speaker: Amber Jacobs (Psychosocial Studies)Relational Innovations: Myths of Intimacies and Transmission and Some Feminist musings on Barebacking
    Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 12.30-2.00pm  Venue: Birkbeck College, Room 253, Malet Street

  • Film Screening and Discussion 'Mirror, Mirror' by Zemirah Moffat
    Mirror Mirror is a 58min documentary, based on an audio-visual ethnography of London's queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities - a counterpoise to London's mainstream segregated scenes. The film is not only queer in content, however, but also queer in form, as it uses dialogue and intersubjectivity as its main stimulus and narrative drive.  It was part of Moffat's PhD into the relevance of shared-anthropology, where she argued that integrated audio-visual participant feedback is both an effective and affective strategy for representing contemporary queer cultures - indeed any culture who resists identification by exogamous sources.
    Date: Monday 16 March, 6pm – 8pmVenue: Thomas Coram Research Unit Library, 27/28 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AA

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speaker: Jonathan D. Mackintosh (Languages, Linguistics and Culture) White Dreams - The Eugenic Imagination of Homo in 1950s Japan
    Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 12.30-2.00pm Venue: Birkbeck College, Room 252, Malet Street

  • BIGS Postgraduate Workshop
    The Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) invited interested Masters and PhD students to take part in "The Body in the Archive: A postgraduate workshop on Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts" led by Elizabeth Stephens (chair: Heike Bauer)
    Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 6.00-8.00pm  Venue: Room 633 Malet Street, Birkbeck.
    This workshop discussed the practice and theory of archival research in the development of research projects undertaken within the context of gender, queer and sexuality studies.  It focused equally on critical issues – what constitutes an archive? which bodies of knowledge come to be objects of historical knowledge and why? – along with questions of applied methodology – how can one access the material found in different sorts of archives, and what are the most productive methods of analysis?

  • BIGS College Gender Group
    Speakers: Dr Sadie Wearing (LSE)  - Iris and the subject(s) of age
    Professor Lynne Segal (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck) - Never Again: The Ambivalences of Ageing
    Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 12.00-2.00pm Venue: Birkbeck College, Room 251, Malet Street