The Gender Institute will be running a Feminist Reading Group over the summer, using Teams; colleagues and PGRs are very welcome to attend. The group will follow an informal format: there will be short reading assigned for each session; participants will be asked to come prepared to discuss the reading and what (if anything!) might be done with it. The sessions are meant to allow brainstorming and networking; there is no designated outcome beyond having read some theoretical material that might spark new research ideas. Colleagues may attend as many or as few sessions as they wish. Meetings will be planned for an hour, but scheduled to take up 90 minutes in case of spontaneous enthusiasm. Children, pets and other unscheduled participants are anticipated and welcome. The Group will be coordinated by Liz Gloyn, who ran a summer Feminist Reading Group within the School of Humanities in 2020 and 2021. The readings and dates are as follows:
Tuesday 28 June, 3pm
Reading: “ ‘Can the subaltern speak’ to my students?” - Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757516
Chair: Liz Gloyn
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Thursday 14 July, 2pm
Reading: “Victorian Feminist Criticism: Recovery Work and the Care Community” – Talia Schaffer - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/victorian-feminist-criticism-recovery-work-and-the-care-community/FAE5A370E75C83D83319A5EEEE83CA03
Chair: Laura Sjoberg
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Wednesday 27 July, 2pm
Reading: “Feminist infrastructure for better weathering” – Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Tessa Zettel and Astrida Neimanis - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08164649.2021.1969639
Chair: Liz Gloyn
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Friday 12 August, 2pm
Reading: “Contemporary fairy tales: Narrating women academics through metaphors” – Sofia Moratti - https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/contemporary-fairy-tales-narrating-women-academics-through-metaphors-11157.pdf
Chair: Ruth Cruickshank
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Monday 22 August, 2pm
Reading: ‘Loneliness is a feminist issue’ - Eleanor Wilkinson - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14647001211062739
Chair: Stevie Atherton
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