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• Conference Review: New Directions in the History of the Women's Liberation Movement
• Girls, Travel, and Global Issues: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Workshop - CANCELLED
• LGBTQ Workshop
• OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRES, PROJECTS AND SEMINARS
• Summer School
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar - CANCELLED
• Reading Group: ‘Domestic service, mobility and otherness'
• Reading Group: Joint session with the Race and Resistance Research Group.
• Professor Dan Healey
• Dr Amanda Power
• Professor Lyndal Roper
• Professor Jane Humphries
• Dr Siân Pooley
• Oxford Feminist Thinking Seminar Series
• Oxford Feminist Thinking Seminar Series
• Finding a feminist home in Oxford: Four reflections
• Film Review: Lady Bird
• Feminist Thinking Seminar: "Virtual Diaspora and Postcolonial Feminism”
• Feminist Thinking Seminar: “Visible and Invisible: Ordinary Acts of Resistance During the Twilight of the Franco Regime.”
• Feminist Thinking
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Undergraduate Thesis Workshop
• Reading Group: Gender and sexual politics: theoretical perspectives
• Reading Group: Psychoanalysis and History
• Reading Group: Experimental Workshop on Sources
• Henk de Smaele Guest Lecture: A Political History of the Nude
• Experimental Sources Workshop
• Review: Oxford Feminist Thinking Conference
• CGIS Presents...Research Brief Encounters
• CGIS Discussion Group: ‘Gendered Sensations: The Intersection of Gender and Sensory Histories in the Early 20th Century’
• Discussion Group: ‘Finding Rape in the Archives: Methodologies for Evaluating Survivor Voices from the Past’
• Disability History Month Workshop: “Disability History at Oxford: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future”
• Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Customs in Common: making ‘race’ in the black/white Atlantic
• Into Silence
• Discussion Group: CGIS Meet and Greet
• Book Review: Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
• LGBTQ History Month Workshop: Performance and Queer Histories
• Discussion Group: Sasha Rasmussen (Oct. 24, 2018)
• CGIS Discussion Group: Sapphic Code: The language of lesbian desire in late 19th and early 20th century archival sources
• CGIS Discussion Group: Colourism: The Gendered Politics of Appearance in African American History
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Performing Glinka’s opera ‘A Life for the Tsar’ on the village stage: women choir directors in early twentieth-century Russia
• GWC Seminar: Modern metamorphoses: interiority, commerce, and the Pygmalion myth in late nineteenth-century Theatre
• GWC Seminar: Nan Youngman (1906-1995): Artist and Educationalist
• GWC Seminar: ‘The Painters Are In’: Visual Culture and Menstruation 1950-2020
• Lucia Akard on ‘Finding rape in the archives: methodologies for hearing survivor voices from the past’
• LGBTQ History Month Event 2019
• Queer Studies in Central Asia - Conference Review
• The Female Body and Trauma in Elizabeth Siddal’s sketches
• Film Night: 9 to 5 (1980)
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Graduate Presentations
• Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Graduate Presentations
• Investigating Gender: Sources and Approaches
• Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci
• Beyond Oxford
• CGIS Presents...Research Brief Encounters
• Professor Kathryn Gleadle
• Introducing our new Postgraduate Reps
• CGIS Steering Committee 2019-20
• CGIS-CGH Summer School returns...this Autumn
• CGIS-CGH Autumn Colloquium on Intersubjectivity
• CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Workshop on Approaches to Subjectivity
• CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Workshop on Approaches to Identity
• CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Workshop on Objects and Bodies in the History of Gender and War
• CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE: CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Approaches to Gender Workshop
• CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Professor Marilyn Booth on 'Feminist thinking in 1890s Egypt: Listening to the elusive Zaynab Fawwaz'
• CGIS Lunchtime Workshop: Teaching Women's History, Gender History, and Queer History
• CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE: CGIS Lunchtime Talk: Dr Anna Louise Senkiw on 'Fake News: Writing Actresses’ Lives in the Eighteenth-Century Newspapers’
• CGIS Workshop on new research on gender, identity, and subjectivity
• Start of term Research Brief Encounters event 2019-20
• LGBT History Month event: Tuesday 18 February 2020
• CGIS-CGH Autumn Colloquium 2019 'Intersubjectivities' - Colloquium review
• Professor Christina de Bellaigue
• New CGIS undergraduate representatives
• CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE Research Brief Encounters Monday 24 February 2020 5-7pm
• CGIS Workshop on new research on gender, identity, and subjectivity
• Workshop on Primary Sources and Approaches to researching histories of gender, identity, and subjectivity
• New MSt/ MPhil in Women's, Gender, and Queer History
• New statutory chair in Women's History announced
• CGIS workshops move online
• Biographies Roundtable
• Applying to the Masters Programmes in Women’s Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Queer History
• Lunchtime talk by Anna Senkiw: ‘Dying on the stage: Staging Actresses’ Deaths in the Press’
• CGIS Teach-In on incorporating gender, identity and subjectivity into essays
• CGIS Workshop on Histories of Heterosexuality
• CGIS lunchtime talk by Lyndsey Jenkins: '"Any time, any where, for anything": relocating suffragette militancy in the mind'
• CGIS Workshop on Teaching and Inclusion
• Oral History Seminar
• The History of the Gendered Body
• Women Making History: 100 Years of Oxford Degrees for Women
• Special Faculty Lecture by Philippa Levine: “Decently-Clad Women and Trousered Men". The Missionary and the Body
• Announcing the first Hillary Rodham Clinton Professor of Women’s History
• CGIS Research Brief Encounters
• Graduate-led research seminars
• CGIS undergraduate workshop on using primary sources in essays
• Film Review: Ammonite
• Dr Hannah Skoda
• Professor Julia Mannherz
• Dr Grace Heaton
• Undergraduate workshops: how to include gender, identity, subjectivity and sexuality in essays
• Sara Hashmi
• Alyssa Hickman
• Abby Hughes
• Isobel Davis
• Professor Marilyn Booth
• Reading Group on Religious Subjectivities
• Virginity and Masculinity: Conceptualising Male Monastic Life in 10th Century England
• Female Husbands and Queer Wives
• Trans Histories Today and Tomorrow: Queer Perspectives and Popular Audiences
• ‘Everything A Woman Could Ask For’: Irish Women in Late Nineteenth-Century America
• Undergraduate Thesis Workshop: Approaches and Sources for Histories of Gender, Identity and Subjectivity
• Merze Tate: On Race, Gender, and Education
• The Politics of Purity: Marian Theology and Feminist Feeling
• Menstruation, the Male Gaze and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages
• Gender and Justice in Late Medieval France
• Women and Musical Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
• Theme Paper a). Masculinity PRESENTS: Beards in History Facial Hair and its Meanings in the Past
• Curdling Historical Practice - How to Mix It All Up and Live with the Results
• CGIS Edit-a-thon
• Oxford History of Emotions Seminar
• Sexual Violence and Social Contract: A History of Violence from Sati to Gang-Rape in India
• Menstruation, the Male Gaze and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages.
• Brief Encounters
• Gender History and the Worlds of Care
• Incorporating Gender, Identity and Subjectivity into Essays
• The Question of the Female Slave Community and Culture in the American South
• The Challenges of Writing a Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Gender History in U.S. Courts: Same-sex Marriage, Abortion, Transgender Rights
• Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
• Methodological Praxis: A Textbook on Black Women’s History
• Riots, Rights, and Respectability: Black Women and the Courts in the Aftermath of the 1863 New York City Draft Riots
• A healthy bath: early modern notions of the body, climate and the healing powers of the sauna
• Student Presentations
• Finding Gender and Queer History in the Medieval Muslim World
• Queer History Lunchtime Talk
• Rediscovering Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
• The Afterlife of Charity Folks: Slavery's Ghosts, Family History, and Descendant DNA
• Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
• "Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?”: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy
• Intersectionality and Realities: Racialized Women’s Lives in 19th Century California
• Black Women, American History and the Rough Corners of Vengeance
• 'The Terrible Doubt of Appearances': Langston Hughes, Masculinity, and Homosexuality
• Establishment of the Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexualities
• Gender and Representations in the Early Modern Hispanic World
• Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
• Native Women in the Archives of Colonial Mexico
• Surviving Southampton: Black Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
• Marriage Contestations in Colonial Nigeria
• Narrating a History of Amelia Newsham
• Hygiene, Health, Pleasure, and Propriety: A Workshop on the History of Bathing
• A Workshop on Legal Sources and Late Medieval Sexuality
• CGIS Michaelmas Term Card
• Professor Brenda Stevenson lecture: 'The Enslaved Black Family'
• LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• “Solidarity and Persecution: Queer Women in Nazi Germany”
• "Historians Will Say They Were Just Good Friends": University Histories, Queer Histories”
• Animated Transitions: “Sex Change”, Racial Fantasies and Trans*/Animal Relations
• 'Transfeminine Lives in Nazi Germany’
• 'The young sodomite: Age and agency in sodomy cases in the late medieval Southern Low Countries'
• 'The decadence of morals: Sodomy and temporality in Paris, 1660–1730'
• 'The Invention of (Gay) Community'
• Charlotte Kutz
• Ellie Birch
• Hannah Ezer
• ‘Motor Organs, Delicate Constitutions: De/gendering Airborne Bodies in the First World War’
• 'Black Women and the Convict Lease System'
• What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family
• Clementi and the woman at the piano
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Barbara Savage in conversation with Lyndal Roper
• Saidiya Harman, ‘Venus in Two Acts’
• Doing History With Things: Visit to the Ashmolean
• Brenda Stevenson Lecture
• Writing about Difficult Subjects – WGIQ Writing Breakfast
• Are galli eunuchs? Beyond bodies in the Roman Mediterranean
• Sarah Fox (Birmingham): ‘“six weeks before you are brought to bed”: anticipating birth in early modern recipe collections’
• Kudakwashe Chitofiri - Penises in Captivity: Myth and Folklore
• Dominic Janes (Keele), Queering the Middle Ages and Student Life in 19th to 20th Century Oxford
• Dreams and History Workshop
• WGIQ Hilary Term Card
• Undergraduate Thesis Workshop
• Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity: Use of cookies on this website
• The Challenges of Memorializing HIV/AIDS
• Marie Linos (Oxford)- ‘How Significant Is the Other: Anglophone Couples of Scholars and the Making of a Transatlantic Social Science (1890-1940)‘
• Lyndsey Jenkins - ‘I am constantly shocked by cases of blatant and unquestioned discrimination against women in every sphere of life’: the struggle to outlaw sex discrimination in Britain, 1966- 1975. '
• Trinity Termcard
• CANCELLED - Alison Oram- Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
• Rebecca Jennings - Married lesbians and notions of love and selfhood in post-war Britain
• Amin Ghaziani - The Closure Epidemic: How Disruptions Affect Queer Nightlife
• Joint meeting with the History Faculty LGBTQ Network Reading Group- 'Female Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Classical World'
• Writing Fridays
• Stacie Vos- Reproducing the Cloister: Hroswitha of Gandersheim, Margery Kempe of Lynn, and 20th-Century Networks of Female Medievalists
• Undergraduate LGBTQ History Workshop
• Aincre Evans (Oxford): "West African Women's Movements in Global Feminist History"
• Olivia Holder (Oxford): “Ceramics and Resistance: Artistic Assertions of Black Caribbean Identity”
• Carly Guest (Northumbria University): “Family Stories and Secrets in memories of the UK 1984/85 Miners' strike”
• Gerard Koskovich: “Conceiving the Past at the GLBT Historical Society: Inside San Francisco’s Queer Museum"
• Alison Oram (Institute of Historical Research): “Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage”
• 2024 Michaelmas Termcard
• Research Speed Dating
• Writing, psychoanalysis and history: Hannah Zeavin In Conversation
• 2025 Hilary Termcard for Weekly Seminars
• 2025 HT Special Events Termcard
• 2025 HT The "Care" Series Termcard