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To raise awareness of period poverty, menstrual wellbeing and the need for more environmentally-friendly menstrual products, we are delighted to be working with Hey Girls – a social enterprise based in Musselburgh – to lead a workshop in how to use a Menstrual Cup. Book here

Collection of documentary footage from the National Library of Scotland. Scotland’s women lived through major social change in the twentieth century, challenging their roles in society and fighting for equality: at work and at home, classroom to croft, girlhood to motherhood. Discover their stories and hear their voices in Her Century, a timely collection of…

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Hungary | 1975 | 89 minutes | Hungarian  Hosted by: Prof. Dina Iordanova, Department of Film Studies  Adoption is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It tells the story of Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one. 

Exploring qualitative research methods and theoretical frameworks to advance the research on the intersectionality of female entrepreneurs Building on previous successful events held in 2018 and 2020 on Re-thinking female entrepreneurship, we are pleased to announce a two-day conference on qualitative research methods and theoretical frameworks to advance the research on the intersectionality of female…

This workshop will focus on the question of whether policy and practice of race/ethnicity in HE sector in the UK is about the least possible change without disrupting the existing status quo or is it about bringing about meaningful structural and cultural change/transformation. In bringing together leading academics and practitioners from the UK, the aim…

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Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh will speak on: ‘Gender history, Global history, and Atlantic slavery’.  

Please plan joining us for a workshop + screening to celebrate the work of remarkable Soviet/Ukrainian feminist director Kira Muratova (1934-2018). Kira Muratova, who worked mostly in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, is one of the most innovative, imaginative, exciting and versatile directors to emerge out of the Soviet Union, where her early films were censored and her…

Spain/France | 1999 | 101 minutes | Spanish/Catalan/English  Hosted by: Prof. Catherine O’Leary, School of Modern Languages  A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress’ autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy’s father about the death of the…

Professor Eudine Barriteau, Pro-VC and Principal of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill campus). Professor Barriteau is a gender specialist and activist who will be giving a talk on 6th May, commencing 5.15pm in the Buchannan lecture theatre on the topic of migration and gender (title TBC).