Events

Upcoming Events

GFGRG Call for Event Proposals 2025/2026

The GFGRG welcomes proposals for events that align with our aim to support and promote feminist geographical research and practice. We can offer sponsorship of up to £300 for workshops, panels, reading groups, creative projects, or community collaborations that advance feminist and gender-focused geographical work, but we welcome proposals below that amount.

If you would like to submit a proposal, please use the below form and send to Cordelia Freeman (c.freeman@exeter.ac.uk) by 15 January 2026. Depending on the number of requests we receive, we may be able to reopen the call later in the year.

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Launch of the GFGRG Online Seminar Series

The GFGRG committee is delighted to announce the first talk in our brand new online seminar series. These will take place once or twice a term and if you have anyone you would love to hear speak, please do let us know.

Our first speaker will be Walaa Alqausiya (Northwest University in the People’s Republic of China) and the title of her talk will be ‘Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine’s resistance‘.

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The Gaza genocide is a revelatory moment that exposes the structural relationship between Western liberal feminism and imperialist accumulation. This talk extends my work on gendered ecologies of waste in Palestine to argue that Gaza’s genocide demonstrates how imperial value extraction operates through the simultaneous elimination of Palestinian reproductive capacity and the mobilization of liberal feminist discourse to legitimize this elimination. I then examine how, from the 1936-39 Great Revolt to the Intifada, Palestinian women revolutionaries developed anti-imperialist praxes refusing both colonial domination and Western feminist frameworks. I explore how women in besieged Gaza enacted this revolutionary praxis, transforming genocide into sites of disobedience, which demonstrates anti-imperialist feminist pedagogy produced through revolutionary struggle rather than academic abstraction. These practices centre national liberation, reject liberal inclusion within imperial structures, and offer revolutionary lessons for confronting US-led imperialism’s gendered violence across the Global South.

This first seminar will be online, on 18 December 2025, 12:00-13:00 (GMT).

The seminar will not be recorded so please sign up to attend here.