This year we are privileged to introduce Professor Yvette Taylor, Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, as our key speaker.
The lecture draws upon recent ESRC funded work, including Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012) and Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (2009). It draws attention to contemporary intersections, sticking points and collisions between class, gender and sexuality: how are people made to 'fit' place in recessionary times? Who is rendered excessive to family, community, national, international terrain and how are economies of belonging, fitting and exceeding space (as 'waste', 'potential', 'impact', and as regenerative subject-citizen-researcher) being negotiated in academic and non-academic environments? What are the forces that 'fit' the good, mobile academic to place and what shape can this take if the 'fit' is to reach beyond the individual, if queer, academic, to instead encompass questions of care, attentiveness and varied presence. In times when certain presences are rendered excessive (and in need of 'cutting-back') this Lecture urges a re-focus on intersectional dilemmas, classed endurances and gendered inequalities.
Date and time: Friday 15 June, 5-7pm
Location: Keyworth Building, Lecture Theatre A, London South Bank University, Southwark, SE1 0AA
This free lecture offers an excellent opportunity for academics, and prospective Masters and Doctoral students to meet and share ideas.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you are interested in attending this free lecture please complete the online booking form.
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