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In Spring 2023, we were honoured to welcome Professor Judith Butler for a week of activities and events from April 25th - 28th.This was fortuitously timed with the announcement of Butler’s new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, and Sara Ahmed’s new publication, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. This presented an unmissable opportunity to platform work aro…

This year, we are delighted to welcome Sandi Toksvig OBE to join us at the Department of Sociology to take up the inaugural Qantabrigian Fellowship for 2023-24.Sandi of course needs no introduction - her contributions to comedy, literature, and political activism are well known, having earned her a myriad of commendations throughout her career. For…

This year Stonewall conducted the "LGBT in Britain: University Report" which shows that "for many lesbian, gay, bi and trans students, the [university] experience can be marred by discrimination, exclusion and abuse because of who they are." The report is extensive, and in October 2018 we were joined by Pete Mercer from Stonewall who talked us thro…

A series produced by lgbtQ+@cam to interview researchers on the way in which we can 'queery' the curriculum. How do we queer the curriculum? And why is it important? This video features Dr Sofia Ropek Hewson, a queer theorist whose PhD examined the work of Paul B Preciado.

Check out our new page which will list reading&study groups at the university. Does your department have a lgbtq+ reading group? Let us know.https://www.lgbtq.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events-in-a-page/reading-study-groups

“You have to carve a little space for yourself, which is what queer people have done forever”, said PhD student George Severs, speaking about a current lack of opportunities for exploring queer theory in higher education, barring personally motivated study.Read all about our programme in an article written by Varsity:https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/…

Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging, edited collectionDeadline for submissions: January 1, 2019Contact email:tyler.bradway@gmail.com Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis)Tyler Bradway (SUNY Cortland)Duke University Press (tbc)“Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging” is a proposed volume at Duke University …

Seeking participants for third-year undergrad dissertation research. The research is on how LGBT+ people view drag and, by extension, the concept of identity. I’m looking for ten to twelve participants, some who do drag and some who don’t, and from a wide array of backgrounds within the LGBT+ spectrum (ie it wouldn’t be useful for me to interview t…

Cambridge Queer Theory (CQT) is an interdisciplinary reading group based in the Department of Sociology and brings together graduate students and faculty from across the university to explore Queer Theory in acadmia and beyond. Meeting every other Thursday afternoon during term time.First meeting: Oct 18th, 2:30-5pm (Lecture Room 7, 8 Mill Lane)Fil…

The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion and the Body in Queer Cultures2–3 May 2019University of Cambridge, UKwith a keynote lecture by Sara AhmedCall for PapersDeadline for submissions: Wednesday 5 December, 12 noonqueerartoffeeling@gmail.comSince the earliest works of queer theory, scholars have placed the body at the centre of queer experien…

Call-out for survey respondentsO. Newnam's sociology part2B dissertation explores issues of masculinity and homophobia and its effects on working-class gay men’s educational experiences.If you are an undergraduate, post-graduate (any year) or have graduated, and self-identify as both working-class and as a gay male, and would be willing to take par…

We've published our first video in the Queer(y)ing the Curriculum series, where we interrogate the question posited by Kevin Jennings "what's the use of queer studies?" as well as asking "how do we queer the curriculum?" You can follow us on YouTube, or join our mailing list, to find out when we produce new videos.https://youtu.be/4D6UhmKeINk

In June 2018 LGBTQ+@Cam invited 25 academics from LGBTQ+ programmes at universities around the UK. We hosted people from Glasgow, Sussex, Oxford and more, in order to discuss shared experiences on the development of academic LGBTQ+ programmes.After introductions which included sharing the strengths and difficulties of everyone's programme, Professo…

Kevin Jennings has a quarter-century of experience is popularizing LGBT history. In 1994 he co-founded the US LGBT History Month (now observed every October) and also authored *Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay & Lesbian History for High School and College Students*, the first book of its kind. He then helped write and produce *Out of the Past*, th…

LGBTQ+@Cam is a new programme launched by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2018 to promote research, outreach and network building related to queer, trans and sexuality studies at the University of Cambridge.Based in the Department of Sociology, and working closely with allied initiatives in other Faculties and Centres, the LGBTQ+@Ca…