Events
SHaME is an active research group that started in October 2018. We will be hosting regular conferences, workshops, and other outreach activities.
SHaME completes its 2021 event calendar with the official book launch of Dr Nick Basannavar’s ‘Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse’ (Palgrave Macmillan). Nick will be joined in conversation by host Professor Joanna Bourke (Principal Investigator at SHaME) and guests Professor Adrian Bingham (Sheffield) and Professor Rachel Hope Cleves (Victoria).
Learn moreJoin SHaME and WOW – Women of the World at the first ever Shameless! Festival, a one-day event bringing together activism and art to confront and change attitudes towards sexual violence, share ideas, and imagine a rape free world.
Learn moreAuthor and actor Emily Ratajkowski joins WOW – Women of the World Founder Jude Kelly CBE at Shameless! Festival for an unmissable conversation on her new book My Body, a deeply honest and personal exploration of what it means to be a woman today.
Learn moreSHaME and WOW are excited to host Poetic Unity for their performance of ‘Safe Space’, an evening of poetry and spoken word confronting attitudes towards sexual violence and advocating for a safer world for women and girls on 27 November.
Learn moreDr Emily Bridger and Dr Ruth Beecher are seeking proposals for a Workshop:
Researching and Writing Histories of Sexual Violence: Methodological Challenges and Ethical Complexities
SHaME and the Research Centre for the Humanities (Athens) are holding a workshop to problematise the western subject through an exploration of sexual violence in the “European south”.
Learn moreSHaME is closing its Writer in Residence Programme with this special Panel Discussion and Creative Performance Event with Clare Shaw, SHaME researchers Dr Ruth Beecher and Professor Joanna Bourke, and our Writer in Residence Winnie M Li.
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