Monday 16 November 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK LSE Gender is delighted to welcome Marquis Bey and distinguished journalist Sandip Roy, who will offer international perspectives on nonbinary lived experiences through their respective new books Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory and Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal. Bey’s Nonbinary Life blends memoir and…
Wednesday 18 November 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm GMT, online (UK) As part of UK Disability History Month, Dr Louise Hewitt based at the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich will present a paper on the ‘Disabled Witness Project’. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Irene Zempi (irene.zempi@ntu.ac.uk). Find…
Thursday 19 November 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK As governments, democratic and authoritarian alike, restrict children’s access to social media in the name of protection, this lecture asks a harder question: protection for whom, and from what? Bans are typically justified through an abstract, universal image of “the…
Wednesday 9 December 2026, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT, online (UK) Guest Speaker: Dr Loren Parton Title: The knowledge and understanding of practitioners of technology-facilitated violence and abuse Abstract: Image- based sexual abuse (IBSA) is a specific form of technology-facilitated violence and abuse (TFVA). Whilst scholarship in this area is growing, and has value in drawing…
Wednesday 20 January 2027, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT, online (UK) Guest Speaker: Dr Camila Iglesias Title: Listening to the “Voices of Lived Experience”: Rethinking Victim Support for Hate Crime and Violent Extremism Abstract: Victims of hate crime and violent extremism face compounded harms that differentiate them from victims of general crime, including social…
Tuesday 2 February 2027, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm GMT, online (UK) As part of LGBT History Month, Professor Sarah Lamble based at the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London will present a paper on ‘Hate crime against trans people in the aftermath of the 2025 For Women Scotland Supreme Court decision’…
Monday 8 March 2027, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm GMT, online (UK) As part of International Women’s Day, Professor Surya Monro based at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University will present a paper on ‘Understanding Hate Crime against Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming and Intersex (TGNCI) people: Structural factors and social norms’. The…
Thursday 22 April 2027, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK) As part of Stephen Lawrence Day, Dr Bisi Akintoye based at the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Roehampton will present a paper on ‘Intergenerational Experiences of Racialised Policing’. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Irene Zempi (irene.zempi@ntu.ac.uk)….