School of Social and Political Science

"When judges make policy: Exceptional criminal courts and the judicialization of politics in Benin"

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to invite you to the following seminar part of their CAS Seminar Series 2024/2025.

Mathias Thaler – Repetition in Action: The Problem of Human Agency in the Anthropocene

Part of the CRITIQUE Seminar Series.

Book Launch: Gender in South Asia and Beyond

Join us for the launch of this essay collection celebrating the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery, who for over 40 years, carried out pioneering research on a range of subjects including gender and development. With guest speakers Prof Anuj Kapilashrami and Prof Lynn Jamieson.

Gendered Resistance to Pollution 

Part of the Researching Latin America talk series

Where to next? Post-school transitions and career decision-making among young people in Scotland: Insights from the Growing Up in Scotland study

Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City

Screening of Mme d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690): part of LLC’s ‘Missing Matter: Challenges of and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery’ programme

GENDER.ED is delighted to co-host a screening of La Compagnie Subversive Stage Production: Thérèse d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690) at the L’Institut français d’Ecosse, part of LLC’s ‘Missing Matter: Challenges of and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery’ programme.

Substance Use Coercion and Domestic Violence: Towards a more nuanced understanding

The exploitation of substance use as a form of coercive control is an insidious and often overlooked aspect of domestic abuse in Australia and internationally.

Film screening - The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

In this documentary, British historian David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants has been 70 years in the making.

The Deadbot Society: AI and the End of the Human Past

The 2020s are marked by a convergence of huge computing power with the greatest memory dump in history. The digital participation of billions – producing, exposing and sharing data and information about personal and public selves and experiences – has forged an astonishing shadow archive of us.

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

Making/Field/Technologies