Archive
Birkbeck is a world-class research and teaching institution, a vibrant centre of academic excellence and London's only specialist provider of evening higher education.
Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality organises and supports various lectures, workshops, and projects over the course of the year to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration amongst academics and the wider community. In order to share our events with the greatest possible audience, we record many of these events. You can access these for free at any time.
BIGS PAST EVENTS
Read about previous Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality events.
BIGS PODCASTS
2019
2018
- Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon
2017
- Morbid Love in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Between Decadence and Degeneration
- BiGS Event: Decolonising Witchcraft: Implications for Knowledge and Health
2016
- BiGS Event: 'We can't live together like those faggots'. Cinematic Representation of Queer Migrants from Muslim-Majority Countries Living in Europe
- BiGS Event: British Caricature and Queer Fashioning 1750-1900
- BiGS Event: ‘Archives of Feeling’: Matt Cook on the AIDS crisis in Britain, c.1987
- BiGS Event: Bowie at Birkbeck
- BiGS Event: Feminism and Radical Utopianism, Past and Present
- BiGS Event: Fat Activism is Dangerous
- BiGS Event: Homonationalisms and Criminalised Queers: A Panel Discussion about Global Sexual Politics
- BISR Methods Lunch: Between the Sheets/In the Streets: Interdisciplinary Sexuality and Gender Studies Research
- BiGS Event: Centre Stages of Development: Performance, Public Art and Sexual Politics
- BiGS Event: 'Pink Slave' or the Modern Young Woman? Au Pairing in the UK from the 19th Century to the Present
2015
- Antinormativity's Queer Conventions: A Dialogue with Robyn Wiegman - Robyn Wiegman, Daniel Monk, Sasha Roseneil, Lynne Segal
- The Gendered Dynamics of Power: A One-Day Conference
2014
- Pits and Perverts Revisited: 'Pride' the Movie and Politics Now
- Gendering Representations of the Financial Crisis
- Filming the Absent Mother
2013
- Temporal Vertigo: The Paradoxes of Ageing
- The Wild: Humans, Animals, Anarchy
- 'Older Women', Policy and Politics
- A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the Work of Jane Bennett
- The Future of Feminism
- After, Beyond the Fragments
- Women's Lives, Well Being and Community: Arts-Based Biographical Methods
2012
- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
- Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste