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

Highly Commended Award for Centre for Women’s Studies Director, Dr Rachel Alsop, at University of York Inclusive Impact Awards

Monday 1 December 2025

Dr Rachel Alsop along with colleagues Professor Sara de Jong and Professor Simon Parker from the Department of Politics received a highly commended award in the 'Bridge Builder' category at the fourth annual Community Without Limits Inclusive Impact Awards held at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall on Tuesday 25 November.

Paper presentation at Narratives of Care Conference at La Trobe University, Dept. of Social Inquiry

Monday 17 November 2025

Dr Asha Abeyasekera will present her paper in late November 2025.

Urban Development as a ‘Condition of Possibility’ for Domestic Violence: Tracing the Multi-scalar Impacts of Post-War Urban Regeneration on Colombo’s Working-Class Poor

Monday 17 November 2025

An online talk for the BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Study Group seminar series on Violence

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