Prof Robyn Longhurst: Seminar for PG Students

Robyn Longhurst will be conducting a seminar for postgrads on 10 February, 11.00 to 12.00, followed by lunch, hosted by the CCIG Bodies Programme and OpenSpace, Christodoulou Meeting Room 11. The seminar will be based on a pre-circulated forthcoming paper of Professor Longhurst's. The paper will be a springboard for an informal discussion with you. No 'staff' are involved and no agenda is set. The event is not part of a training programme. The paper will be separate from her lecture the previous afternoon.  Students who have been involved in such sessions before have really got a lot out of them.

This seminar for postgraduate research students is being hosted by CCIG Bodies Research Programme, Dr Raia Prokhovnik and OpenSpace Research Centre, Prof Steve Pile.

Biography

Robyn Longhurst is Professor of Geography at University of Waikato. She is an editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. She teaches feminist, social, and cultural geography. Robyn has published on issues relating to pregnancy, mothering, ‘fat’ bodies, ‘visceral geographies’, masculinities, and the politics of knowledge. She is author of Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries (2001), Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Spaces (2008) and co-author of Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (2001) and Space, Place, and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities (2010).