International Women's Day at City Lit

Throughout our history, City Lit has played a significant role in educating women in London. Empowerment through education, regardless of gender, has been at the centre of our activities throughout this time. Since we opened our doors, thousands of women have benefitted from City Lit’s broad and flexible courses, managing study alongside work, and other responsibilities.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, not only on Saturday 8 March but all through the coming months, we have a range of courses available which explore and celebrate the significant contributions made by women in life, society and culture. 

Read more about International  Women's Day at City Lit.

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  1. Gender, Intersectionality and Women’s studies
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michele Scott
    Come along with us as we explore and examine new and emerging debates around queer studies, post-feminism and the feminist backlash.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  2. Women writing and walking: Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
    Course start date:  Thu 8 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sophie Oxenham
    This in-person Literature course considers the relationship between walking and writing in four innovative works of literary non-fiction: Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘Street Haunting’ (1927), Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’ (written c. 1945, first pub. 1977), Rebecca Solnit’s ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ (2006), and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s ‘The Grassling’ (2019).
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  3. Women in ancient Rome
    Course start date:  Fri 9 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  William Sterling
    Women's position in the Ancient Roman world was important as they played important roles in the home, in business, in religion and even in politics.
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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  4. Bad Queens of England? Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angouleme
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 10 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Eleanor failed to produce a son for Louis VII and urged her sons by Henry II to rebellion. Isabella abandoned her children by King John to start anew in France with her daughter’s fiancé. We consider their roles as queens.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  5. Modern Women Playwrights
    Course start date:  Wed 21 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Explore seminal modern plays by three leading women playwrights – Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Moira Buffini – who are all known for groundbreaking and innovative dramatic work.



    In the company of an experienced theatre director, examine the different theatrical visions of three exciting plays.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  6. An introduction to the philosophy of Simone Weill
    Course start date:  Thu 29 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Karl White
    In this course we will look at aspects of the wide-ranging and intriguing philosophy of Simone Weil, one of the 20th century’s most intriguing and mysterious thinkers.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  7. Radical Black Feminism
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This course explores radical black feminism through changing expressions of Black women’s radical practices of self-liberation and resistance to slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy and their intersecting systems of oppression.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  8. Writing Motherhood
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rebecca Jones
    Explore the extraordinarily diverse world of writing about motherhood, looking at literary texts that have firmly rebuked any notions of motherhood as ‘merely’ domestic, and have instead made it the subject of serious literary writing, have explored major themes such as the body, trauma, gender, queerness, race and creativity, and have written diverse truths about the realities of motherhood. Writers include Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich and Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson and Ayò¿bámi Adébáyò¿.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  9. Art and critical theory: feminism and post-colonialism
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Irina Chkhaidze
    Explore the role of critical theory within the field of art history, and learn new ways of thinking about art by focusing on feminism, post-colonial theory and the notion of the death of the author.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  10. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  11. Women in the French Revolution
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Zoe Quinn
    In this taster explore how the French Revolution opened up opportunities for female political engagement and action. Through an overview and case studies we will try to answer why the significant social and political gains made by French women in the revolutionary era were to prove transitory.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  12. Masters of Cinema: Céline Sciamma
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Karine Chevalier
    This one day course will consider Celine Sciamma’s importance as a filmmaker by exploring in some detail a number of her key films from her debut Water Lillies (2007), to films such as Tomboy (2011), her breakthrough Girlhood (2014), and her more recent popular successes Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Petite Maman (2021).







    Dr Karine Chevalier is a lecturer in Film studies. She is also a filmmaker. Her main research interests lie in the field of Transnational Cinema, French and Francophone Cinema, Visual Arts and Aesthetics, Postcolonial Studies, Intermediality, as well as Screenwriting and Filmmaking, with a specific focus on Violence and Resilience, Creative Voices, Digital Storytelling and Multiscreens, Alterities and Minorities, Moving (auto)Portraits and Masks.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  14. Royal Mistresses of England and France
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    Take a romp through history exploring the highs and lows of being a royal mistress. You may have heard of the Fair Rosamund or Diane de Poitiers, but what about The Maypole and The Elephant?
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  15. Masters of style: reading and writing Virginia Woolf
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Thomas McMullan, Patricia Sweeney
    Virginia Woolf was one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Her approaches to writing character interiority were at the forefront of modernist literary innovations. This day workshop explores the literary interpretations of several seminal texts and writing exercises that encourage you to experiment with Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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