The UCL Women’s Liberation seminar series showcases research addressing social and political issues concerning the status and meaning of women’s rights. Sign up for updates by emailing feminism-join@ucl.ac.uk. 

Past Seminars

Rethinking sex, brain, and gender: Beyond the binary

Prof. Daphna Joel, Tel-Aviv University

Children’s understanding of sex and gender

Dr Katie Alcock, Lancaster University

Tues 29th November 2022, 1-2pm, UCL Institute of Education (Room C3.09, IOE 20 Bedford Way).

A recording is now available via UCL Media Cental ‘Children’s understanding of sex and gender’.

 

Mothers, infants, and sexed language: a journey

Dr Karleen Gribble, Western Sydney University

Thursday 6th October 2022, 1-2pm, UCL Institute of Education, room G02, 55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H 0NU.

A recording is now available via UCL Media Cental ‘Mothers, infants, and sexed language: a journey’.

 

‘Gender, (social) science, and academia: reflections on a journey of 60 years’

Professor Ann Oakley

12^th July 2022

 

‘Use the right words’: Verbal Hygiene and Feminist Politics

Professor Deborah Cameron, Oxford University

16th March 2021 14.00-15.00 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Cental ‘Use the right words’: Verbal Hygiene and Feminist Politics

Sex or gender identity? Practical and ethical implications for medicine

Dr Sara Dahlen, Kings College London

17th February 2021 14.00-15.00 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Sex or gender identity? Practical and ethical implications for medicine’

Queer Theory and the Transition from Sex to Gender in English Prisons

Dr Michael Biggs, University of Oxford

7 December 2021 14.00-15.00 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Queer Theory and the Transition from Sex to Gender in English Prisons’

 

Psychosocial factors and gender dysphoria: emerging theories

Dr Lisa Littman

7th October 2021, 14.00-15.00 BST

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Psychosocial factors and gender dysphoria: emerging theories’

 

How prostitution myths are linked to all our lives as women

Dr Helen Johnson, director of Stand Against Sexual Exploitation

30th June 2021, 14.00-15.00 GMT

Recording available on request

 

Complicated Sisterhood: negotiating socialist feminism in the second wave periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Woman

Bec Wonders, doctoral researcher, Glasgow School of Art

28 April 2021, 14.00-15.00 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Complicated Sisterhood: negotiating socialist feminism in the second wave periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Woman’

 

Scrutinizing the US Equality Act: Context, Conflict, and Consequences

Callie H Burt, Associate Professor, Georgia State University

18 March 2021, 15.30-16.30 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Scrutinizing the US Equality Act: Context, Conflict and Consequences’

 

Women and Social Mobility in Postwar Britain

Professor Selina Todd, Department of History, University of Oxford

27th January 2021, 14.00-15.00 GMT

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Women and Social Mobility in Postwar Britain’

 

Let’s Talk about Brain Sex

Professor Sophie Scott, UCL

2 Dec 2020 14.00-15.00

A recording is now available via UCL Media Central ‘Let’s Talk About Brain Sex’