Events

“The Body Positivity Movement”: Book Launch & Lecture

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Join us in York for the launch of Dr. Gemma Gibson's brand new book on the triumphs and shortcomings of the "body positivity" movement.

A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British voices panel

Wednesday 21 May 2025

“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)

Use the words you have to get the words you need

Tuesday 20 May 2025

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

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

Monday 19 May 2025

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.

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

Wednesday 23 April 2025

Join us for an interdisciplinary round table discussion as we think through how we, as feminist scholars, mobilise concepts around ‘violence’ and what is at stake in doing so.