The St. Clare's Seminar Series has provided an opportunity for students to explore a stimulating range of issues and ideas. Each semester the series is linked by a common theme. Themes in previous years have included: Death and Love; Dreams and Nightmares; Creation and Inspiration; Tragedy and Love.

Participants registered on a St. Clare's Life Long Learning course are invited to attend any of the seminars. Each seminar is held on Tuesdays at 7.30 pm at Aula, Blackfriars Hall, St. Giles, Oxford. Talks are approximately 50 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for question and discussion. Please contact the Programme Director, Dr Ines Molinaro, if you have any questions about the seminars - ines.molinaro@stclares.ac.uk

Gender and identity - "Gender", according to the World Health Organization, ‘refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women'. How have gender roles been constructed, challenged and reconfigured in various societies and eras? How does gender impact on identity as we move towards a technology-driven, trans-gendered age?

Date	Seminar title	Speaker
20 January	Gender Trouble: the queering of modern identity	Nick Kneale - St. Clare's, Oxford
27 January	Barbie and Action Man: toys, bodies and genders	Professor Jonathan Bignell - University of Reading
3 February	Dressed to Kill: clothing and gender in the late nineteenth century	Professor Barrie Bullen - University of Reading
10 February	Imagined Interiors: depicting domestic space in Edwardian art	John Rolfe - St. Clare's, Oxford
24 February	"Not Quite Ladylike"? Women's Drinking and the English Public House, 1918-39	Dr Stella Moss - St. John's College, Oxford
3 March	The matrona / whore complex: being a liberated woman in Rome	Dr Llewelyn Morgan - Brasenose College, Oxford
10 March	Between the Earthly and the Ideal: visions of women in Italian literature	Francesca Magnabosco - St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
17 March	Intruders on the Rights of Men: public and private writing for women in the 18th and 19th centuries	Dr Emma Plaskitt - Stanford University
24 March	Fighting foes and finding selves: from medieval romance to modern horror	Dr Roger Dalrymple - Buckinghamshire New University