Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 Ten Thousand Years of Patriarchy - Fellows Lunch with Alice Evans

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Wednesday, October 18, 202312:30PM - 2:00PMSeminar Room 208N, This event will be held at 208N, North House,1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7

Description

This lunch seminar, exclusively for Munk School students, is an opportunity to meet in a small group with Munk School Fellow-in-Residence Alice Evans.

Alice Evans a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, with previous appointments at Cambridge and London School of Economics. She has published on gender, urbanization, the drivers of social change and inequality.

In this informal seminar, Dr. Evans will speak about her forthcoming book, “The Great Gender Divergence”, the first ever global history of gender, tracing the origins of patriarchy, cultural evolution, how the world became more gender equal and why some countries are more gender equal than others.

Students are encouraged to come with questions about any country in the world. In addition to the opportunity to learn about Dr. Evans’ work, students will also hear how and why Dr. Evans chose to study what she does.


Speakers

Alice Evans
Fellow-in-Residence, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Senior Lecturer, King's College London


Main Sponsor

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Sponsors

Munk School of Global Afairs & Public Policy

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