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
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.
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
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.