We're pleased to announce Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia University as this year's Juliet Mitchell lecturer. Join us 15 October 17:30 at the McCrum theater for her talk "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...

Check out the latest from our Deputy Director Dr Holly Porter!

We're BACK and getting set for this year! First, sign up for the Juliet Mitchell Lecture given by Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia Univeristy on "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." 15 October, 5:30, McCrum Theatre. www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/juliet-...

📚Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written a book review of "In Love and at War" by @hilarymatfess.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. 📕In Love at War: cambridge.org/core/element... 📑Book Review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Christine Carpenter on So, now what? warns women to be mindful of the information they put on tech platforms & how it could be used against them - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/i... #gatescambridge #podcast @uniofcam.bsky.social @chris4short.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

Reetika Subramanian on the So, now what? podcast on the importance of engaging men in discussions about gender and climate crisis... #podcast #gatescambridge25 #climatchange #genderequality @uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Congrats to our Dela Amemate for winning the POLIS Fieldwork Photography Contest! Her image "Threads of Survival" shows aba mats from Ghana’s Volta Region. "These mats are more than products—they’re currency, sustenance, and a form of agency for women supporting their families." Link below!

💥 CRASSH at 25! Be part of our 2026 anniversary programme! Submit your ideas in response to our anniversary open calls for a special annual lecture and a series of funded half-day events on the theme of 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' buff.ly/MdzMVzX

Check out a new article by our PhD student Leah Schmidt in Ms Magazine on Canada's response to the 'gender panic': msmagazine.com/2025/07/03/c...

👀 Did you miss our recent Annual Lecture 'Anarchitecture after everything' given by Jack Halberstam? You can now watch it on our YouTube channel! The event was supported by @cambridgegender.bsky.social

Congratulations to our PhD alum Farhana Afrin Rahman for winning this prestigious award for 'After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps'!

👀 Did you miss our recent Annual Lecture 'Anarchitecture after everything' given by Jack Halberstam? You can now watch it on our YouTube channel! The event was supported by @cambridgegender.bsky.social buff.ly/fsF8YsU

Very exciting work by our PhD grad Dr Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social on femtech and menstrual tracking apps!

Rashalee Mitchell will deliver a lecture at 5pm on 10 June at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on Social Protection for Female Sex Workers in Jamaica. Do join us & share! ‬ @cambridgegender.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social newn.cam.ac.uk/event/social...

It's today! See you all at 5pm in ARB SG2!

And we get to hear about it from @whitproject.bsky.social herself tomorrow at 5pm, ARB SG2!

It's tomorrow, 21 May! Join us with IR/Hist to welcome Prof Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social to talk about her book "Erased: A History of International Thought without Men" at 5pm ARB SG2 (that's ground floor by the cafe), drinks to follow! @campolis.bsky.social @ansteecentre.bsky.social

👇 Looking forward to this...

🌿 Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema 30 May 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP buff.ly/vGOH36U This workshop aims to reassess Eco-cinema from the specific vantage point of contemporary queer cinema, and to collaboratively explore the nexus of queerness, landscape, and lens-based art

Don't miss next Wed's talk by Prof Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social on her new book "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men": 21 May, 5pm, ARB SG2, drinks to follow! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Don't miss next Wed's talk by Prof Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social on her new book "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men": 21 May, 5pm, ARB SG2, drinks to follow! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We're looking forward to welcoming Prof Patricia Owens for a book launch of 'Erased: A History of International Thought without Men' on May 21, 5pm ARB SG2. Co-hosted with the @campolis.bsky.social IR/Hist group. All welcome, reception to follow! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🌿 Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema 30 May 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP buff.ly/vGOH36U This workshop aims to reassess Eco-cinema from the specific vantage point of contemporary queer cinema, and to collaboratively explore the nexus of queerness, landscape, and lens-based art

Later today! Not to be missed!

It's tomorrow! We're excited for Prof Mara Viveros Vigoya's talk "From the Centre to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality" that we're hosting with our friends @clascam.bsky.social. 5pm, ARB SG2. All welcome, drinks/snacks afterward! @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

Congratulations to our PhD student Leah Schmidt for winning a Pierre Trudeau Foundation scholarship for the rest of her PhD! www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/leah-...

It's today! We can't wait to launch Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman's book "After the Exodus" at 5pm in ARB 2SG today with reception to follow!

Coming up soon as well, on 7 May! We're thrilled to co-host this talk by Prof Mara Viveros Vigoya with our friends @clascam.bsky.social.

Coming up on Wednesday!

Coming up in just a week! See you there!

Mark calendars, coming up in a few weeks!

Celebrate Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman's book launch of "After the Exodus" with us on Wed 30 April, 5pm ARB SG2! www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/book-la...

We're looking forward to a talk "From the Centre to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality" by Simon Bolivar Professor Mara Viveros Vigoya, co-hosted with @clascam.bsky.social on 7 May! All welcome.

We're looking forward to a talk "From the Centre to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality" by Simon Bolivar Professor Mara Viveros Vigoya, co-hosted with @clascam.bsky.social on 7 May! All welcome.

Congratulations to our PhD student Kyla Simone Piccin on her article in Antipode, "Taking Settler Colonialism Seriously in Abolition Ecologies"-- open access below!

📣 Call for responses Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema A workshop which explores queer and ecological perspectives in cinema, and the nexus of queerness, landscape and lens-based art Submit a contribution by 4 April 2025 Join us at the workshop on 30 May 2025

☘️🌐 We're launching the #ClimateBridesMap series. We begin with Gender Inequality—because it is not just a backdrop, it is the system that decides who gets protected in a crisis and who gets married off. Let’s break it down. @cam-repro.bsky.social @reetiks.bsky.social @doremai.bsky.social (1/9)

📢 Applications are invited for a fixed-term Assistant Professorship (Lectureship) in African Politics, joined with a Fellowship at Trinity Hall, which will run until 30 September 2027. For more information and to apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50761/ Closing date: Wednesday 23 April 2025

💫 Cambridge Festival: Menstrual Sounds 🗓️ 3 April from 5-6.30pm 📍Alison Richard Building , CB3 9DP 🎟️ bit.ly/4bwb0i9 This workshop will create a space for exploring menstrual cycles through the medium of sound without the limits of commodification in the context of data capitalism

Congratulations all shortlisted, especially our recent PhD Farhana Afrin Rahman nominated for her book "After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps", CUP, 2024.

Congratulations and best wishes to our comrades at Uni Warsaw on their new Gender and Sexuality Studies MA!

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities and Film and Screen Studies (permanent) at Cambridge Digital Humanities and Cambridge Film and Screen, coordinated by @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social Closing 15 April ⏰ Find out more and apply: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Congratulations Naoise! We can't wait to get our own copy ;-)

Congratulations to our recent PhD Farhana Afrin Rahman, shortlisted for the BISA L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize for "After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps." www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... More on Farhana's work: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/news/farhana...

We are delighted that Muaz Chaudhry has won a Gates Scholarship to do their PhD with us! They will work on determinants and consequences of labor market exclusion for trans and queer communities in South Asia. Read their bio here: www.gatescambridge.org/biography/19... @gatescambridge.bsky.social

This Thursday, from 5.30pm, the sun's going to shine so come out and join us at Old Divinity School for informal panel discussion and browse our exhibition over drinks and nibbles - spread the word, all are welcome!

Join us Monday 12:30 for Dr Shannon Philip of @camsociology.bsky.social and their talk "Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa." 12:30 ARB S1 or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corporate-...

Join us Monday 12:30 for Dr Shannon Philip of @camsociology.bsky.social and their talk "Corporate Machismo: Gender Inequalities and Sexual Harassment in Corporate Offices in Postcolonial India and South Africa." 12:30 ARB S1 or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/corporate-...