News and events

Each year the Centre for Women’s Studies hosts conferences, seminars and day schools which bring together scholars in the Centre’s key fields as well as in emerging areas. We welcome items for the news and events webpage; please send to the Centre Administrator cws@york.ac.uk.

News

Violent Concepts: Feminists Grappling with Violence, Knowledge and Practice – an interdisciplinary round table discussion.

Friday 16 May 2025

CWS organised this round table discussion involving feminist scholars from CWS, the Department of Politics, the Department of English and Related Literature, and from Newcastle University.

UK gender studies community reaffirms trans inclusion in response to Supreme Court judgment

Friday 2 May 2025

The Centre for Women's Studies joins other UK university centres, research groups and networks in gender/sexuality/feminist/women’s studies to issue a statement about the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ’sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.

The Cultivate student-led Journal in CWS celebrates International Women's Day

Monday 10 March 2025

As part of York's International Women's Week programme, a group of the Cultivate team hosted a creative writing workshop in the city.

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