Café Sci - The Female Category in Sport
Schedule
Thu, 01 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Aberdeen Art Gallery | Aberdeen, SC
Join researchers for a panel event discussing the complex issues surrounding the female category in sportThe event aims to educate and provide clarity on complex issues surrounding the female category in sport and related matters.
The discussion will include issues such as:
◦ Sport policies concerning the female category, including their
current articulations, history and recent evolutions
◦ Major sport governing bodies’ current thinking around this
category and how these policies have impacted athletes,
including trans women athletes and women athletes with
variations in sex characteristics
◦The effects of these policies at sub-elite levels of competition
The event will also look to future reforms and debates in this area.
Speakers
Blair Hamilton (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Hugh Torrance (LEAP Sports Scotland)
Madeleine Pape (University of Lausanne)
Sone Erikainen (University of Aberdeen)
Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen) (moderator)
This event is organised by the Philosophy Department of the University of Aberdeen as a Royal Institute of Philosophy Local Partner and by the University of Aberdeen’s Public Engagement with Research Unit. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Scots Philosophical Association.
For more info see https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/22314/
Tickets available via the link in description.
Where is it happening?
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
