News and events

Each year the Centre for Women’s Studies hosts conferences, seminars and day schools which bring together scholars in the Centre’s key fields as well as in emerging areas. We welcome items for the news and events webpage; please send to the Centre Administrator cws@york.ac.uk.

News

The Cultivate student-led Journal in CWS celebrates International Women's Day

Monday 10 March 2025

As part of York's International Women's Week programme, a group of the Cultivate team hosted a creative writing workshop in the city.

Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001, edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies.

Thursday 20 February 2025

CWS’s Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies are delighted to announce the publication of the second of two volumes of essays on the subject of “violence elsewhere” in German culture, published by Camden House: Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001.

Prestigious Publication Award for CWS Alumna

Monday 13 January 2025

The Higher Education Commission Pakistan Prize

Events

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

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.

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