Professor Kozue Akibayashi is a feminist researcher and activist. She is a professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Her research and activism has focused on analysing issues of militarism, militarisation and demilitarisation and decolonisation, from a gender perspective. Professor Kozue Akibayashi is the International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom . WILPF is an international non-governmental organisation, established in 1915, with national sections in...

In this lecture Professor Wilson will address the issue of psychopharmaceuticals, harm and adverse effects. The lecture will begin by considering the arguments against anti-depressant medications developed by a loose alliance of critics (feminists, anti-psychiatry activists, clinicians) who maintain that these medications pose a significant threat to the patients who take them: are adolescents, in particular, more susceptible to suicidal ideation when they take antidepressants? The lecture will then argue for the necessary entanglement of...

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshall Islander poet and spoken word artist. She received international acclaim through her inspirational poetry performance at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014. Her writing and performances have been featured by CNN, Democracy Now, Mother Jones, the Huffington Post, NBC News, National Geographic and the Nobel Women’s Initiative. The University of Arizona Press published her first collection of poetry, Iep Jā ltok: Poems from...