Past events

12 August 2023, 1:30pm

Jackie Kay: A Life in Protest

Join the prolific and award-winning writer Jackie Kay at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where she unveils her remarkable poetry collection, "A Life in Protest."

07 July 2023, 4:30pm

Opening Hegel's Autological Circle: Irigaray & Sexual Difference

A seminar exploring the results of Irigaray's revolutionary thought of sexual difference for philosophy and politics.

21 May 2023, 1:00am

Deep Dive 2023 – Lucy Irigary

This year the Gender & Sexuality Studies Reading Group will be exploring the work of Luce Irigaray, a French-Belgian feminist philosopher and author of multiple books including Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), An Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993) and The Way of Love (2002).

06 July 2023, 5:00pm

Questioning Irigaray: A Concluding Lecture

This concluding session will focus on the questions that have arisen in the course of the reading group.

20 June 2023, 4:30pm

The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India

Shailaja Paik’s talk focuses on her new book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford, 2022), which offers the first social and intellectual history of the Dalit (“Untouchable”) performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theatre in Maharashtra, Western India—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth century India.

29 May 2023, 4:00pm

GENDER.ED's Annual Research Showcase

We invite you to this event featuring selected projects on gender and sexualities from across the Schools at the University of Edinburgh. Our featured projects include cutting-edge academic and institutional research, student campaigns, and change projects. We have also planned a roundtable this year to reflect on “Feminist, Women’s and Gender Studies at Edinburgh: Looking Back, Looking Forward.”