{"id":45,"date":"2021-11-05T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2022-04-23T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:03:27","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The GRG Annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gender Research Group&nbsp;awards an annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. Students present their dissertations at a symposium (which has taken place virtually over the past two years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Min Wild (Plymouth) has acted as a judge in the 2020\/21 and the 2019\/2020 symposiums.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>202021 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First&nbsp;Place&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Erin Hollinshead (B.A. in Combined Honours)&nbsp;for her dissertation on Peru\u2019s family planning and sterilisation under the Fujimoro government<\/li><li>Second&nbsp;Place&nbsp;\u2013 Grace Waterhouse (B.A. in English Literature)<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>for her work on Angela Carter and the rejection of androgyny as escape<\/li><li>Third&nbsp;Place&nbsp;\u2013 Becky Tuck (B.A. in Politics and Sociology)&nbsp;for her project on gender and the Universal Basic Income<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Honourable Mentions: Kate Adair (B.A. in Law). Eleanor Gelson (B.A. in Education), Lauren Jackson (B.A. in Sociology) and Alica Page (B.A. in English Literature and History).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were submissions from every School in HaSS (which is a first!). The judge noted that the energy of all the submissions, and praised all participants for their passion and commitment to think about gender studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019\/20 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First Place \u2013&nbsp;Maria Marti (B.A. in Sociology)<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cListen &#8211; our Troubled Body is Speaking: Embodied Legacies of Female Basketball Players\u201d<\/li><li>(Joint) Second Place \u2013 Abi Hockaday (B.A. in English Literature),<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThe Cyborg and the Goddess: (Im)Possible Femininity in Neal Stephenson\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Snow Crash&nbsp;<\/em>(1992)\u201dand&nbsp;Lauren Duckworth (B.A. in English Literature),&nbsp;\u201cMonstrous Female Otherness in Carol Ann Duffy\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The World\u2019s Wife&nbsp;<\/em>(1999)<\/li><li>Third Place \u2013 Molly Tonks (B.A. in History)&nbsp;\u201cWomen in the Soviet Army in World War Two\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality of presentations was extremely high, and our judge noted the students all displayed an \u2018excellent grasp of intellectual content\u2019 and the demands of the \u2018level of engagement and attention\u2019 required in presenting their work virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The GRG Annual Masters Dissertation Prize<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gender Research Group awards an annual Masters Dissertation Prize.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner: Gabriella Rutendo Mwedzi, \u201cBlinded By Faith: An Investigation into the Attitudes of Black Christian Clergy Members Towards Intimate Partner Violence in England and Wales\u201d (completed for the M.A. in Sociology and Social Research).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runner-Up: Abi Hockaday, \u201cWomen, Computers and Sex: Power and Desire in Early British Science Fiction Magazines\u201d (completed for the M.Litt. in English Literature).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to the shortlisting and judging colleagues: Dr Sarah Collins (HCA), Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul (NLS), and Dr Gareth Longstaff (SACS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Jennifer Richards and Professor Liz Todd judged the 2020&nbsp;Prize and noted that they \u201cwould like to congratulate all three authors, each of whom delighted and informed us in equal measure.&nbsp;We enjoyed three well-crafted, well-paced and outstandingly well-researched&nbsp;dissertations. Well done indeed!\u201d.&nbsp; They look \u201cforward to seeing the future research of shortlisted authors!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner: Marta Kuhn (dissertation&nbsp;submitted for the M.A. in the History of Medicine), \u201cTaking the Curse off \u2018the Curse\u2019: An Analysis of Menstrual Health Education Films in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Judges\u2019 Comments<\/em>: [T]he author also took us on a different journey, one which chimes with the work the&nbsp;Institutes are doing. They&nbsp;gave us a very clear account&nbsp;of why the social and cultural matter to our understanding of a physiological phenomenon: menstruation. They had a good understanding of the gaps in current research on British educational films on women&#8217;s health, and they persuaded us their research was step towards filling these. We appreciated this author&#8217;s story of the entangled rather than linear history of menstruation. We felt the wiser for reading it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joint Runners-Up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juliana Beykirch (dissertation&nbsp;submitted for the M.Litt. in English Literature): \u201c\u2018[D]oubly press&#8217;d, by Love and Friendship\u2019: Male Homosociality and the Early Modern Female Playwright\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Bishell (dissertation&nbsp;submitted for the M.Litt. in Latin American Studies): \u201cGender, Socio-Spatial Politics, and \u2018Constrained Freedom\u2019 in Cuban and Dominican Reggaeton&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie Sanders, Karen Ross and Annie Tindley acted as judges for the GRG Masters Dissertation Prize 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner: Nicole Samantha Ellis, MA in Media and Public Relations, \u201cBlackfishing and the Pretty Privilege: Analysing the Beauty Stereotypes on the Cultural Identity of Mixed-Race Women\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runner-Up: Hannah Budge, MSc in Food and Rural Development Research, \u201cDetrimental or Fundamental: Does the Lerwick Up-Helly-Aa Gender Debate Help or Hinder Shetland Society?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both dissertation were described by the judges as breaking new ground in their fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The GRG Writing Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Gender Research Group runs monthly writing groups broadly designated by the subject that the participants are working on. In 2020\/21, the groups are running on Friday mornings on the following subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender &amp; Writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender &amp; Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violence &amp; Activism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender\/Sexuality &amp; Institutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topics are chosen every year based on the interests of the participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Book Launches and Other Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gender Research Group hosts many book launches and events related to the topics of gender, sexuality and\/or the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent events include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A talk by Grace\u00a0Lavery about her new book,\u00a0<em>Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis<\/em>, hosted by the HASS EDI Director, Professor Kate Chedgzoy, on April 6th 2022.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace\u00a0Lavery\u00a0is Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, and affiliated faculty in the Department for Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. <em>Please Miss<\/em>\u00a0is a memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook.\u00a0<em>Please Miss<\/em>\u00a0can be purchased via Daunt Books:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdauntbookspublishing.co.uk%2Fbook%2Fplease-miss%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CChiara.Pellegrini%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C680daea02435411ced2d08da141ba511%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637844406217292425%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=Hem7jB9VO2aads186jfiE%2BK5I%2BuHSypwII%2FtULHmipg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dauntbookspublishing.co.uk\/book\/please-miss\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8216;Spaces of Consent&#8217;, an event consisting of two panel discussions and a virtual exhibition. This event was organised by Tina Sikka on the 29th-30th April 2021, and focused on taking up and troubling how sexual consent as a social and legal framework has changed and its place in the #MeToo era. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details can be found here by clicking &#8216;View Details&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/spaces-of-consent-tickets-150717854159\">eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/spaces-of-consent-tickets-150717854159<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The book launch to celebrate the publication of Professor M\u00e1ire Cross\u2019s (Emerita, School of Modern Languages) book,&nbsp;<em>In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan: A Political Biography&nbsp;<\/em>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/books\/id\/53154\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/books\/id\/53154\/<\/a>).&nbsp;This event was hosted by the The Gender Research Group, in conjunction with the Labour &amp; Society Research Group and the School of Modern Languages, on November 19th, 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GRG Annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize The Gender Research Group&nbsp;awards an annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. Students present their dissertations at a symposium (which has taken place virtually over the past two years). Dr Min Wild (Plymouth) has acted as a judge in the 2020\/21 and the 2019\/2020 symposiums.&nbsp; 202021 Winners First&nbsp;Place&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Erin Hollinshead (B.A. in Combined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/events\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Events&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10546,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/genderresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}