Centre for Gender History

Semester Two:

 

 

Monday 26 Jan 2026, 1.00-3.00 pm
Dr Frankie Dytor, University of Exeter
Alchemical Romance: Towards a Trans History of Aesthetic Experience 
Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251
 
Monday 9 Feb 2026, 1.00-3.00 pm
Dr Jay Todd, University of Glasgow
Exploring ‘non-binaryness’, gender fluidity, and non-binary lives in the UK, 1965-2000
Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251
 
Monday 23 Feb 2026, 1.00-3.00 pm
Prof Cordelia Beattie and Dr Suzanne Traill, University of Edinburgh
Alice Thornton's Books: Remembrances of a Woman’s Life in the 17th Century
Venue: Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251
 
Monday 9 March 2026, 1.00–3.00 pm
Prof Mattie Armstrong-Price, Fordham University
Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways
Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251
 
Monday 30 March 2026, 1.00-3.00 pm
Dr Rahul Rao, University of St Andrews
'The Phallic Lives of Statues'
Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251
 

Wednesday 6 May 2026, 4–5 pm
Research Seminar: Prof Churnjeet Mahn, University of Strathclyde
'Queer Reach and Diasporic Belonging'
Global History Seminar
Venue: Humanities Research Hub

 

Semester One:

 

Wednesday 1 October, 3.15-5.00 pm
Centre for Gender History Welcome Event
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery and Lecture Theatre

 

Monday 13th October, 12.30-2.00 pm
Research Seminar: Dr Jade Scott, University of Glasgow
Communicating Women: Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625
Early Modern Work in Progress Group
Venue: Brogan Room, 2 University Gardens

 

Monday 13th October, 2.00-4.00 pm
Hufton Postgraduate Network: Welcome Coffee and Cake
Venue: Room 251, Gilbert Scott Building

 

Monday 3 November 2025, 1.00 -3.00 pm
Work in Progress: Dr Anna McEwan, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Book Proposal Workshop
Venue: Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251

 

Thursday 6 November 2025, 1.00-3.00 pm
Hufton Postgraduate Network
Coin Handling Workshop with Cameron Maclean: The Coinage of Mary Queen of Scots
Venue: The Hunterian Collections Study Centre, Kelvin Hall.

 

Monday 17th November, 12.30-2.00 pm
Research Seminar: Ashley Brown, University of Glasgow
Liminality and masculinity: the position of post-Reformation Scottish scholars
Early Modern Work in Progress Group
Venue: Brogan Room, 2 University Gardens

 

Thursday 20th November 3.00-4.00pm
Hufton Postgraduate Network PGR Work in Progress:
Grace Wright, ‘Màiri Mhòr nan Òran’s Textile Work and Political Representation during the Crofters’ War of the 1880s'
Emily Hay, ‘The Body of the Queen: Mary Queen of Scots and Early Modern Textual Reactions to Sexual Assault'
Venue: Room 134, Gilbert Scott Building + online.

 

Monday 24 November 2025 1.00 -3.00pm
Research Seminar: Dr Emma Newlands, University of Strathclyde
Masculinity, military health and medicine in the twentieth century
Venue: Gilbert Scott, Committee Room 251

 

Friday 28th November 5.00-8.00pm
Hufton Postgraduate Network
End of Semester Pub Quiz Social
Venue: Curler’s Rest

 

Monday 8 December, 2025, 1.00-3.00
Research Seminar: Dr Charmian Mansell, University of Sheffield
Female Servants: a new history in global, long-run perspective
Venue: BOYD ORR, Room 411

 

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Research seminar and work in progress sessions are hybrid: Zoom links will be circulated via the Centre Moodle page in advance of each session.

Any questions, please email arts-genderhistory@glasgow.ac.uk 

 

First published: 1 November 2025

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