GENCAS

The Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society is  University Research Centre based in the School of Arts and Humanities which brings together staff from across the campus who research into gender. It hosts conferences, symposia and workshops, provides a home for PhD students working on gender, and runs a successful MA, Gender and Culture.

Director: Dr Brigid Haines

Associate Directors:

Professor Nicola Cooper

Dr Rachel Farebrother

Dr Sarah Gamble

Dr David Turner

Contact Details:

Please send all correspondence to
Dr Brigid Haines, 
GENCAS/Department of Modern Languages,
Singleton Park,
Swansea,
SA2 8PP
or email: b.haines@swansea.ac.uk

 

Current GENCAS events

Theorising Wales conference (12-14 July 2010)

Bodies, Gender and Medicine (5 March 2010)

Previous GENCAS events

Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Marie-Luise Kohlke

Click here for a summary of the event and more photographs. For online access to a full recording of the interview, click on one of the following links:

mms://mrcstr1.swan.ac.uk/english/nes.wmv (fast broadband access)
mms://mrcstr1.swan.ac.uk/english/nes_med.wmv (low bandwidth broadband connection)
mms://mrcstr1.swan.ac.uk/english/nes_audio.wma (audio only version, for dial-up modem access - very low bandwidth, 20Kb/s)

 

GENCAS has also forged links with the research activities of a number of other research centres, most recently the Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender Series (BIGS) within the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) at the University of London.

Other recent and/or current GENCAS activities include:

Annual interdisciplinary symposia series: Riding the Third Wave: Gender, Feminism and the New Millennium

Research seminars in the series ‘Women and Gender’ with contributions from research students, staff, and visiting speakers.

 

Postgraduate research seminars organised by research students. Click here for the GENCAS postgraduate page

A cross-campus gender reading group for students, academic and non-academic staff

[Image courtesy of Marcello Ferrada-Noli]