The Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) hosts an online seminar series showcasing feminist and gender-focused geographical research. The series brings together scholars at different career stages and across a range of geographical contexts.
Upcoming seminars
GFGRG ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES
Feeling, power and method: Feminist perspectives from a research agenda for emotional geographies
Speaker: Danielle Drozdzewski, Natasha A. Webster, Tess Osborne
Date: 20 April 2026, 12:00-13:00 (UK)
Format: Online (Zoom)
The seminar introduces ‘A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies’ and reflects on how emotional geographies contribute to feminist geographical scholarship. The book explores how emotions shape knowledge production, research relationships, and everyday spatial experience, foregrounding questions of power, care, embodiment, and positionality.
GFGRG ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES
All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers – how we mentor matters
Speaker: Lindsay Naylor
Date: 11 June 2026, 13:00-14:00 (UK)
Format: Online (Zoom)
In All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, Lindsay Naylor argues for a feminist approach in geography that is both world-dismantling and world-making, pushing back against a neoliberal academy. Care in this context is examined through labor, social reproduction, relations of exchange, and affect.
There are currently no further seminars scheduled. Please check back soon or follow us on social media for updates.
Past seminars
GFGRG ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES
Promotora m(other)work in the cracks of the world
Speaker: Dr Cristina Faiver-Serna
Date: 27 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 (UK)
Format: Online (Zoom)
In this seminar, Dr Cristina Faiver-Serna builds from Black and Chicana feminist theory to analyse how promotora grassroots geopolitical counters the spatial imagination and material violence of the Port Authority, and why lessons from promotora praxis are worth paying attention to amidst the global fight for climate justice.
GFGRG ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES
Transgender experience and the question of space
Speaker: Dr Eden Kinkaid
Date: 6 February 2026, 13:00-14:00 (UK)
Format: Online (Zoom)
In this webinar, Dr Eden Kinkaid develops a critical phenomenology of space grounded in transgender experience, sketching an intersectional theory of space that rethinks how bodies, power, and lifeworlds shape being-in-the-world.
GFGRG ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES
Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine’s resistance
Speaker: Walaa Alqaisiya
Date: 18 December 2025, 12:00-13:00 (UK)
Format: Online (Zoom)
This talk extends work on gendered ecologies of waste in Palestine to explore the structural relationship between Western liberal feminism and imperialist accumulation in Gaza.