Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality & Law - Upcoming Events, workshops and conferences
Events and workshops
- SCC Annual lecture, Thursday 27 February 2025 at 6pm:?'Challenging Sex Discrimination within the Criminal Justice System' by Harriet Wistrich
Seminars
For further details and to be invited to these, and future seminars, please?email scclaw@soton.ac.uk
- Wednesday, 7th May 2025 – 12:30-14:00: "The Role of Law in Constituting the Labour, Race, and Gender Interface. A Political Economy Approach to Anti-Discrimination Law" - Julieta Lobato, PhD candidate and Lecturer in Labour Law, University of Buenos Aires, currently a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany.
- Wednesday, 14th May 2025 – 12:30-14:00: Dr Gemma Mitchell, Lecturer in English Trusts Law at the University of East Anglia.
See below for a list of past talks.
Previous events
- Thursday, 12th Dec 2024 – 12:30-14:00: "Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales"?- Dr Jennifer Aston, Associate Professor in History at Northumbria Law School.
- Wednesday, 6th Nov 2024 – 12:30-14:00: “Calibrating Women’s Equality: How Closely Should Courts Scrutinise Claims that Women’s Equality Should be Constitutionally Limited?” - Dr Meghan Campbell, Reader in International Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School.
- Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 – 12:30–14:00: “Courts and Judges as agents of social change in Africa” - Dr Martha Gayoye, Lecturer in Law, University of Keele.
- Wednesday, 17 April 2024 - "Maternal Well-Being, Infant Feeding and Return to Paid Work" - seminar by?Prof Grace James and Prof Sarah Jewell, University?of Reading.?Register here.
- Wednesday, 6 March 2024 - "Reducing Bias in the Workplace" - seminar by Dr Cansin Arslan , University of Exeter Business School
- Thursday, 22 February 2024 – 18:00-19:00: Annual Lecture by Dr Shreya Attrey
- Wednesday, 10 January 2024 - 13:00-14:00: "Reflections on love, leadership, power and campaigning for change” - Inaugural talk by Adjunct Fellow Dr Kate Paradine
- 22 November 2023 – 13:00-15:00: “ Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic – An International and Interdisciplinary View ” with the Editor Florence Seemungal
- Wednesday, 15 November 2023 - "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Property Association" - seminar by Dr Sharon Thompson , Cardiff University
- Wednesday, 13 September 2023 - Pregnancy and the Law workshop
- Wednesday, 26 April 2023 – “ Strippers and other feminists: Counter hegemony, class, and legality ” – Seminar by Dr Katie Cruz, Bristol University
- Wednesday, 23 March 2023 – “ Gender inequality facing occupational exposure; the case of breast cancer ” – Dr Aude Cefaliello, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
- Wednesday, 8 March 2023 - “ Speaking in a Different Voice: The Gendered Nature of Promotion Applications in Academia ” - Seminar by Dr Elisabeth Griffiths, Northumbria University Newcastle and Dr Frances Hamilton, University of Reading
- Tuesday, 7 March 2023 - " The New EU Pay Transparency Directive: Potential and Limitations " - Seminar by Dr Sara Benedí Lahuerta, University College Dublin
- Wednesday, 7 December 2022 - " The translocation of racialised rape mythmaking from British colonies to the United Kingdom: Distilling race, Empire, and British colonialism in the ‘real rape’ myth " - Seminar by Miss Megan Johnson, University of Bristol