The Faculty of the Humanities hosts monthly Gender Talks webinars to educate, empower, and entertain community members concerning related matters. These talks are presented by academics from different institutions and with various views on life.
Speaker: Prof Amanda Gouws
Date: 09 September 2022
Speaker: Dr Stephanie Cawood
Date: 26 August 2022
Speaker: Dr Belinda Du Plooy
Date: 24 June 2022
Speaker: Dr Nonhlanhla Dlamini
Date: 20 May 2022
Speaker: Jessica Lynn
Date: 22 April 2022
Speaker: Prof Deirdre Byrne
Date: 11 March 2022
Speaker: Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga
Date: 25 February 2022
2021
Gender Talks Lunchtime Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 25 February | Dr Ivo Ngade | COVID-19 mitigation measures and the impact on ‘care’ at domestic levels |
| 11 March | Prof Helene Strauss | Feminist resonance: Gender-based violence, mourning, and traumatic recall in the work of Gabrielle Goliath |
| 23 April | Prof Hussein Solomon | Women confronting patriarchy in the MENA region |
| 13 May | Dr Glen Segell | United Nations 1325 incorporated into NATO: women, peace, and security |
| 23 June | Lisa Vetten | The co-constitutive relationship between gender and intimate partner violence |
| 9 July | Prof Joy Owen | Breathing out of sync – motherhood vs academia |
| 18 August | Prof Tamara Shefer | Disrupting patriarchal colonial logics in higher education: thinking with embodiment, relationality, care, and affect in teaching and research |
| 10 September | Dionne van Reenen | Size and sex: considering the fat body and eroticised performance in popular |
| 8 October | Sixolile Ngcobo | Gender equality and accountability in South Africa’s higher education sphere |
| 5 November | Tapiwa Madimu | Gendered exclusions: zama zamas and illegal mining |
2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Department |
| 30 October | Nontombi Velelo | Social Construction of Masculinity | Department of Sociology |
| 27 November | Dr Nadine Lake | Reconfiguring Decolonisation | Centre for Gender and Africa Studies |