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

Posted on 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.

Attended by some 30 members of the university community, the event focused on how feminist scholarship can challenge mainstream conceptualisations of violence, and what is at stake in doing so.

Speakers: Clare Bielby (CWS); Maya Caspari (English and Related Literature); Harriet Gray (Politics); Alison Phipps (Sociology/CWS York and Newcastle)

Chair: Asha Abeyasekera (CWS)