{"title": "Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism"], "description": "An annual public lecture hosted by Birkbeck's Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, with Professor Tanya Serisier speaking on 'Surviving Rape in Public: Survival Politics and Feminist Justice Work'. The lecture examines how a 'survivor politics' became a dominant feminist response to sexual violence, the impacts on public survivors, and a wider history of feminist justice work building collective responses. Professor Heike Bauer chairs and Professor Sally Wheeler, Vice-Chancellor, gives the welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lectur-80554/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65012/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lecture-2026", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sara Ahmed on Complaining, Again!", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism"], "description": "A lecture titled 'Sara Ahmed on Complaining, Again!' at a contemporary arts institute on The Mall in London. Sara Ahmed explores the feminist potential of complaint, asking how it can bring us together and create new solidarities in the struggle for change. The lecture marks the publication of her new book No is Not a Lonely Utterance (2025) and takes place alongside Autumn Knight's exhibition I Can't Complain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again-117574/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/lecture-sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3eab35294f01b762fcd761e9d14415d5d3af9665def5caba0cc2a4cced5ed6f2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Women’s Rage: A Global Phenomenon", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism", "literature"], "description": "A panel discussion on women's rage as a global phenomenon, from the Caribbean to India. It features Nicole King of the University of Oxford, Ana Nenadović and Amrita Shodhan of SOAS. 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Created by the Johannesburg-based artist Gabrielle Goliath, it gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care, addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life. The work proposes mourning not as closure, but as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/feminine-strength-gabrielle-goliath-at-ibraaz-70008/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1dd0a922175fec8ccee0a1523321818c2ff8fec9b15b2430500c18ff24d1a6e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Windows into the Unseen", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Deptford Lounge Library", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "Windows into the Unseen is a month-long exhibition transforming the windows and public-facing spaces of a public library. It is the first public library exhibition by SHEROES Collective, bringing together 16 women activist artists. Their installations and window interventions confront hidden and normalised forms of violence against women and girls, while amplifying stories of resilience, survival, and collective care. The show marks 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/windows-into-the-unseen-73939/", "official_url": "https://deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/windows-into-the-unseen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c17d7f175414bbde87b4270ce919f1462aa0a1bf77c43c4e2d0b7d360563e56-600.webp"}, {"title": "Windows into the Unseen", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Albany", "address": "Douglas Way, SE8 4AG London", "price": "£0.00", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "Windows into the Unseen is a free month-long exhibition in a public library, filling its windows and public-facing spaces with work by 16 women activist artists. It is presented by Sheroes Collective, an arts organisation that uses art by women activist artists to celebrate women and raise awareness about gender-based violence. The exhibition marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, bringing hidden and normalised forms of violence against women and girls into public view. Alongside installations and window interventions, it offers creative workshops and talks that create spaces for reflection, care and action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/windows-into-the-unseen-38945/", "official_url": "https://www.thealbany.org.uk/events/windows-into-the-unseen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09df3b50809619356e292f1ebef2d1b48d0674687631498397ca7a9d9add07ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Geography of Violence", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The UK premiere of Maeve Murphy's award-winning trilogy of three short films, The Geography of Violence, which shines a light on gender-based violence. Irish Film & TV UK, in partnership with Wise Women, presents the screening as part of the lead-up to the 15th Irish Film Festival London. It is followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on Jennie's Law and the Wise Women campaign to make a publicly available register of domestic violence offenders available in the UK and Northern Ireland, with filmmaker Maeve Murphy and writer and actor Kellie Shirley on the panel. 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Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tending the Heart: Writing & Healing through Injustice", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "PWYC–£12", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "wellness"], "description": "An intimate workshop of writing, reflection and gentle practice for those carrying the weight of injustice, held under the Scorpio New Moon. It is led by Freya Shi, a writer, poet, artist and holistic wellbeing facilitator, and blends guided breathwork, meditation, creative writing, optional sharing and a short sound bath. Materials come from The Feminist Library's collection and the 'Metal of Agency' chapter of Freya's book Unlearning, to Love, on setting boundaries, reclaiming sovereignty and healing from injustice. The session takes place in the library's conference room with a short break, limited to 12 participants, with signed copies available after.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice-39184/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/21/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c013bc81f1b9386df77308e18ec41e77b5d19328583b146bc4691148e3debf3c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}]}