Events

For further details about any of the events listed below please contact Victoria Robinson or Georgina Waylen.

email : v.robinson@sheffield.ac.uk

email : g.waylen@sheffield.ac.uk

Feb 2010


Workshop on Masculinity
(For further details of this upcoming event, please see "News")

Dec 2009


Workshop on Men, Masculinity, and the Home
Victoria Robinson (Department of Sociological Studies) 'Occupational Masculinities in Transition Across Public and Private Spheres' Laura King, (Department of History) 'Men at Home: Emotional Relationships Between Fathers and Children in Britain, c. 1918-1960' (Cosponsored by SSGRN and PGRN)

June 2009


Dr Joe Cooke (University of Stirling) 'Exploring intergenerational relationships amongst people who have migrated from Africa' (Co-sponsored with Centre for Gender Studies in Europe and Dept of French).

Feb 2009


Dr Victoria Robinson (Sociological Studies Sheffield) 'Sporting Masculinities: Rock Climbing and Extreme /Everyday Partnerships' (Co-sponsored with Sociological Studies)

Nov 2008


Dr Fiona Mackay University of Edinburgh, 'Institutionalising 'new politics' in post devolution Scotland: 'nested newness' and the gendered limits of change' (co-sponsored with Dept of Politics)

Oct 2008


Dr Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, University of Turin and Dr Chiara Bertone, University of East Piedmont, `Studying men's heterosexualities in midlife: results from an Italian research project´ (Co-sponsored with Sociological Studies)

Feb 2008


Dr Natalia Gerodetti (Leeds Metropolitan University) "Female Sexuality and Mobility between Public and Private: Railway Stations, Prostitution and the Social Purity Movement."
(co-sponsored with Centre for Gender Studies in Europe)

November 2007

Workshop with Professor Carole Pateman (UCLA) on her contribution to Feminist Theory (co-sponsored with the Centre for Political Theory and Ideologes).

November 2007

Seminar with Dr Deborah Smith on `Gender, Justice and Customary Law in Afghanistan´ (co-sponsored with Centre for International Policy Research).

June 2007

GRN 1 Day Workshop on Men and Masculinities. It included the following papers:

  • ‘Masculinities in Transition: Identity and Occupation’, Professor Jenny Hockey and Dr. Victoria Robinson, Department of Sociological Studies
  • 'Men die earlier than women; Is this unfair?', Dr. Aki Tsuchiya, Department of Economics, and School of Health and Related Research
  • 'Researching Men: Issues in Gender and Methodology', Dr. Paula Meth. Dr. Katie McClymont
    Department of Town and Regional Planning
  • 'Deprived Masculinities?: In Search of Hegemonic Masculinity in Postwar Japan', Dr Hiroko Takeda
    School of East Asian Studies
  • 'Ritual encounters? Reconstructing homosociability in the eighteenth century', Dr Karen Harvey, Department of History

May 2007

GRN Seminar with Professor Liz Stanley (University of Edinburgh) on 'Yours sincerely, Olive Schreiner': Olive Schreiner's letters, feminist theory and the Schreiner electronic epistolarium.

December 2006

GRN Seminar with Professor Shirin Rai, (University of Warwick), on 'Gender, Justice and Rights: Honour Killings in South Asia'.

May 2006

GRN workshop on Masculinities. With papers by:

  • Mary Vincent and Bob Shoemaker, Department of History: Men and Violence: Historical Approaches.
  • Jenny Hockey, Alex Hall, and Vicki Robinson, Department of Sociological Studies: Masculinities, Identities and the Workplace.
  • Vicki Robinson, Department of Sociological Studies: Masculinities and the Extreme Sport of Rock Climbing.

March 2006

GRN Workshop on Methodologies for Gendered Research. Panel Presentations by:

  • Jenny Saul (Philosophy) on Gender Research in Philosophy
  • Georgina Waylen (Politics) on Gender Research in Politics/International Relations
  • Susie Molyneux Hodgson (Sociological Studies) on Gender Research in Sociology
  • Mary Vincent (History) General Overview/Discussant

February 2006

Inaugural Meeting.