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

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.

Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001, edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies.

Thursday 20 February 2025

CWS’s Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies are delighted to announce the publication of the second of two volumes of essays on the subject of “violence elsewhere” in German culture, published by Camden House: Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001.

Events

Mon

May

Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice: A conversation and a poetry reading

All are welcome to the opening evening of the EUTERPE York-Coventry Spring School, setting the tone for a week of events with an evening on the joys and challenges of translating multilingual authors and texts.

Tue

May

Use the words you have to get the words you need

In this performance-lecture we’ll feel our way with the words we have toward the ones we need.

Wed

May

A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British voices panel

“Gaza does not propel people to cool contemplation; rather, she propels them to erupt and collide with the truth.” – Mahmoud Darwish, Silence for Gaza (1973)

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