“Intergenerational dialogues on gender, care and aging” Seminar by Wendy Harcourt

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/03/2024
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Hybrid Event (LRW 1003, Community Room).

Register for the seminar here: zoom link

This seminar is co-hosted with the Department of Health, Aging and Society

Wendy will base this talk on the research for the forthcoming book ‘Conundrums of Care’ to be published by Bloomsbury Academic which looks at different meanings of care from a feminist political ecology framework.

Professor Dr Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague since October 2017. She joined ISS in November 2011 after 23 years as editor and director of programmes at the Society for International Development in Rome, Italy. She has published over 100 articles in critical development theory, gender and diversity and feminist political ecology. Her book Body Politics in Development won the 2010 FWSA book prize. She was Coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network ‘WEGO’ from 2018-2022. Her most recent  books Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and  Contours of Feminist Political Ecology edited with members of that project are available open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4 and https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3

All seminars will be held via zoom, with the option to attend an in-person viewing session live in L.R.Wilson Hall, Room 1003 at the McMaster Campus. If zoom is new to you, check out our Zoom Guide here: GilbreaZoomTutorial