2025

Feminist and Queer Pedagogies: Positioning Yourself in the Classroom

ARC-GS Teachers' Lunch

Following the success and inspiration of last year's gatherings, ARC-GS is continuing these informal yet enriching lunch meetings for colleagues teaching in the fields of gender and sexuality studies.

This year's theme: Feminist and Queer Pedagogies. In this new series of lunch conversations we will explore the challenges, strategies, and possibilities of feminist and queer approaches to teaching.

• Date: 20 November
• Speaker: prof. dr. Sarah Bracke and dr. Martijn Dekker

Illegitimate Care: New Feminist Tactics against State Hostility

ARC-GS Lecture by dr. Marta Rawłuszko

In this talk, dr. Marta Rawłuszko examined contemporary feminist tactics by introducing the concept of 'illegitimate care'. In particular, she will focus on two case studies: feminist support for migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border and assistance in accessing abortion in Poland.

• Date: 14 November
• Speaker: dr. Marta Rawłuszko

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Gender Inclusivity in Ethiopia's ICT Sector and Development

ARC-GS PhD Workshop

As part of the ARC-GS PhD network, we are launching a regular workshop series where we can share and discuss our work-in-progress. A big thank-you to Jolanda Robinson for volunteering to share her work and helping us kick off this new initiative!

• Date: 3 November
• Speaker: Jolanda Robinson

Abortion Liberation: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Care in Latin America

Lecture by Cordelia Freeman

Latin America has undergone a transformation in abortion access. On the one hand, this transformation has been centred on legal reform with progressive abortion legislation passing in countries such as Argentina, Mexico and Colombia in recent years. However, Dr. Freeman argued that a different transformation has taken place - one that has revolutionised what an abortion is, where it takes place, and who provides it.

• Date: 19 September
• Speaker: Dr. Cordelia Freeman

The Closure Epidemic. How disruptions affect queer nightlife

In this talk, sociologist Amin Ghaziani drew on extensive ethnographic research to explore how the decline of traditional gay bars has made space for mobile, event-based “club nights”—a vibrant and adaptive form of queer fellowship.

• Date: 23 May
• Speaker: Dr. Amin Ghaziani

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life between Tajikistan and Russia

This talk was based on the recently published book Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life, by Elena Borisova. The book explores what migration is and what it does in rural Tajikistan—one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. In examining this dependency, Elena moves beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration and foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ and reproduce their moral communities. By addressing the complex relationship between the economic, imaginative, and moral aspects of (im)mobility, she demonstrates that mass migration from Tajikistan is as much a project of navigating ethical personhood as it is a quest for economic resources.

• Date: 8 April
• Speaker: Dr. Elena Borisova

Gender Matters! Feminist Perspectives on the Sri Lankan Debt Crisis

This lecture explored the enduring burdens of political and financial terror on Sri Lanka’s working-class women, highlighting the urgent need for feminist interventions in policy and governance.

• Date: 21 March
• Speaker: Dr. Kanchana Ruwanpura