Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Engagement Fellowships Pilot

我希望利用公共参与奖学金，将我即将出版的新书《性别歧视：全球历史》中的一些观点呈现给更广泛的读者，并就其中的一些含义激发有见地的讨论和辩论。《性别歧视：全球历史》是一部关于这个话题的“大历史”，追溯了宗教、科学、政治和经济思想，既回顾了史前，又展望了一个没有性别歧视的未来。它认为，性别歧视——根据生理差异对待人们——既不是事物的自然规律，也不是“辉格派”评论员所断言的那样，这在很大程度上是一个过去的问题，现在屈服于一个更进步的时代。相反，性别歧视是一组历史上灵活但始终具有歧视性的观念的一部分，与更广泛的性别和性观念，以及其他阶级、种姓和种族的等级制度密切相关，并具有非凡的适应和改造能力。这本书将通过空间和时间来追溯这些性别歧视的多样性，解释为什么它在某些地方和时期的形式比其他地方和时期更为强大，因此，我希望能帮助我们思考它在今天会受到怎样的挑战。这本书将由布卢姆斯伯里的贸易部门出版，该部门已将其确定为2020/2021年度最重要的非小说类出版物之一。在出版的同时，还将在英国、美国和英联邦进行一次大型的国际宣传之旅。我希望利用奖学金吸引四种不同的受众——媒体、商业、政府和文化艺术界——举办四场有针对性的会议，将特定领域的学者和知识分子聚集在一起进行讲座，并举行小组讨论，讨论人文学科对性别歧视的研究如何帮助我们理解和挑战当代各种形式的性别歧视。其目的是提高对性别歧视的理解和媒体辩论的质量；展示历史、哲学、文化研究和法律领域的人文研究如何为就业、政治参与、经济和文化领导方面持续存在的性别差距提供不同的创新视角；并加深对文化和历史在塑造南半球企业和政治决策者以及媒体舆论形成者的性别歧视态度和做法方面的背景作用的认识。该项目还旨在促进所有四个领域的学者和决策者之间进行正式或非正式的对话、辩论和知识交流，希望为性别歧视和性别歧视的研究和讨论创造一个更知情的环境，并最终促进更多创新的政策举措，促进多样性、平等、凝聚力和积极的社会变革。这四次会议将与各领域的领导人物合作规划，他们将帮助发展必要的机构联系和网络。每次会议都将在一个引人注目的地点举行，并邀请和选择听众。我希望通过邀请一些学术界的知名人士，以及商界、政界、艺术界、流行文化和体育界的知名人士，来吸引新闻界和媒体的高度关注。会议将包括主题演讲、混合小组讨论和听众辩论，讨论随附文件中概述的主题。在小组讨论中，我们将利用英国大学的深度和丰富的专业知识，以及一些知名的国际受邀者。

I would hope to use the Public Engagement Fellowship to put some of the ideas in my forthcoming book, Sexism: A Global History, before a broader audience, and stimulate informed discussions and debates on some of their implications. Sexism: A Global History is a 'big history' of the topic, tracing religion, science, political and economic ideas, which both looks back to pre-history and forwards to, hopefully, a sexism-free future. It argues that sexism - treating people differently according to biology - is neither the natural order of things, nor as 'whiggish' commentators assert, largely a problem of the past, now yielding to a more progressive present. Rather sexism is part of a cluster of historically flexible but always discriminatory ideas, closely related to broader views of gender and sexuality, as well as other hierarchies of class, caste and race, and possessing an extraordinary capacity for adaptation and reinvention. The book will trace these varieties of sexism through space and time, explaining why it has taken far more powerful forms in some places and periods than others, thus, I hope, helping us to think about how it might be challenged today. The book will be published by the trade arm of Bloomsbury, who have identified it as one of their top non-fiction publication of 2020/2021. Publication will be accompanied by a major international promotional tour in Britain, the US and the Commonwealth. I would hope to use the Fellowship to engage four different audiences - media, business, government and the cultural and arts world - with four targeted conferences, bringing together academics and intellectuals in particular sectors for lectures, and panel discussions on how humanities research into sexism can help us understand and challenge sexism in all its contemporary forms. The aim is to improve understanding of sexism and the quality of debate in the media; to show how humanities research in history, philosophy, cultural studies and law can offer different and innovative perspectives on the persistence of gender gaps in employment, political participation, economic and cultural leadership; and to generate a deeper appreciation of the contextual role of culture and history in shaping sexist attitudes and practices in the global South among corporate and political policy-makers and media opinion-formers. The project is also intended to foster on-going dialogue, debate and knowledge exchange, either formally or informally between academics and policy makers in all four fields, with the hope of promoting a more informed environment for research and discussion of sexism and gender discrimination, and ultimately for more innovative policy initiatives promoting diversity, equality, cohesion and positive societal change. The four conferences will be planned in partnership with leading figures from each sphere who will help develop the necessary institutional links and networks. Each conference will be held at a high-profile venue with an invited as well as elective audience. I hope to attract a significant degree of press and media attention with the inclusion of a few well-known figures from academia and, as appropriate, the worlds of business, politics, the arts, popular culture and sport. The conferences will involve both keynote addresses, mixed panel discussions and audience debate on the themes outlined on the accompanying document. In the panels we will draw on the depth and richness of expertise in British universities, along with some high-profile international invitees.