Reporter 6/10/99: Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies: Notice

Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies: Notice

The Secretary General has recently set up a working group, to work towards an interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies. This group continues the work initiated within the 1998 and 1999 Gender Symposia, held to mark International Women's Day. There is already a large amount of research and teaching being carried out in gender studies, but it is spread between different Faculties, Colleges, and at Anglia Polytechnic University, and is often undertaken in isolation, as a 'marginal' subject.

The Centre for Gender Studies aims to bridge the barriers between Departments, drawing together researchers and visiting scholars, and providing an interdisciplinary discussion forum. The Centre will also help students find the appropriate teaching and supervision for their gender studies work. A third Gender Symposium is planned for March 2000, and a public lecture series for the Easter Term 2000.

In the coming term, the working group has put together a programme of seminars, including:

A discussion of gaining European Funding for research associated with women, with Dr Nicole Dewandre, of the European Commission, on 27 October 1999, 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m., SPS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Two meetings of the Gender Theory Study Group, on 26 October and 23 November 1999 at 8.15 p.m., in Room 10, 8-9 Jesus Lane. Speakers will be Peggy Watson, Theorising Gender in Post-Communism, and Ingrid Robeyns, How do we Measure Gender Inequality?

All are welcome to attend the first meeting. If you would like to join the Study Group (for which numbers are limited) or find out more about the Centre, please contact Lucy Delap on ucam-gender-request@lists.cam.ac.uk. If you would like to be placed on the e-mail discussion list or mailing list for the Centre for Gender Studies, please e-mail your contact details to ucam-gender-request@lists.cam.ac.uk.

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