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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…

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. 

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…

In theme with the ongoing UCU strikes, for the next Feminist Philosophy Reading Group we will be discussing the relationship between feminism and socialism! We will be reading Ann Ferguson’s entry on Socialism in the Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy and you can access the paper here(with your uni login): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781405164498.ch52 . It’s a nice short paper…

Film: Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore  Director: Sarah Jacobson  US | 1996 | 95 minutes | English  Hosted by: Dr Connor McMorran, Department of Film Studies  A high schooler from suburbia gets in touch with her sexuality while working at a dingy movie theatre in the city, in Sarah Jacobson’s much overlooked riot grrrl, counter-culture, slacker comedy.