Feminism and futurity
New times, new spaces
This interdisciplinary seminar series focuses on feminist engagements with changing understandings of time and space. Feminist theoretical work has not only reshaped understandings of women, gender, and sexuality, but it has been critical to transformations in taken-for-granted categories of time and space across the social sciences and humanities. Central to the seminar series is a concern with how feminist contributions to theorising in the fields of economy, governance, community, nature and life challenge underlying assumptions of time and space in these domains.
The seminar series has a number of aims:
- to consider how changing conditions of social, political, and economic life require new formulations of key geographical concepts such as time and space
- to explore how contemporary feminist and gender-sensitive scholarship resituates familiar feminist questions in light of broader economic, political, and social transformations
- to bring feminist and gender-sensitive scholarship into conversation with geographical and social science research on the new times and spaces of contemporary life
The objectives of the seminar include:
- extending feminist contributions to theorising the changing times and spaces of contemporary political, social, and economic life
- fostering broader cross-disciplinary conversations on the relevance of feminist research to new theorisations of time and space
- creating a space for productive dialogue between researchers and non-academic users
- providing opportunities for postgraduates and new researchers to engage with experienced researchers in areas of mutual interest
