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qUCL PGR Work-in-Progress Symposium

18 July 2023, 11:00 am–5:00 pm

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qUCL are hosting a symposium for all UCL PGRs working on gender and sexuality to present and share their work with each other.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

qUCL

Location

IAS Common Ground
G11, Ground Floor, South Wing
UCL, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Draft programme (subject to change)

Tea/coffee (provided): 10.45-11.00

Session 1: 11.00 - 12.30pm
Chair: Dr Xine Yao

  • Baylee Woodley - Forsaken, Flamboyant, and Failed Femininities: Thinking between the Medieval and the Modern
  • Ellen Durban -  Married Women who Desire Women: Experiences of Marriage, Motherhood, and Divorce in Postwar Britain
  • Louis Shankar - In the Shadow of Forward Motion: On AIDS and Acceleration

Lunch (provided): 12.30 - 1.30pm (vegetarian, with vegan and GF options)

Session 2: 1.30 - 3pm
Chair – Dr Simon Lock

  • Kate Luxion - All the bits and pieces: The rolling impacts of in-progress LGBTQ+ health research
  • Evangeline Tabor – Using large population studies to explore LGBTQ+ health inequality in the UK
  • Bindu Mehra –  The Inaccessible Narrative

Tea/coffee (provided): 3 - 3.15pm

Session 3: 3.15 - 4.45pm
Chair – Dr Emma Jones

  • Greg McGuiness - Deviant Bodies in Digital Spaces – Outlining an Ethnographic Investigation of Queerness and Videogames
  • Daniel Ovalle Costal – Design Speculations towards a Canon of Queer Domesticity
  • Rían Kearney - Queer Space Archive: Tracing Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ Venues from Memory

Drinks reception: 4.45 - 6pm

To ensure we have enough catering please register to attend at https://qucl-wip.eventbrite.co.uk