RCSD invites all to join a special lecture “Gender, Education and Conflict – Rethinking Connections” with Liz Maber on Tuesday, 24 March 2026 from 10 am to noon at the Subaltern Meeting Room, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.

Attention to gender and education in times of conflict has often focused on girls’ vulnerabilities to violence in accessing schooling. Access to school and increased risks of violence are significant concerns that deserve attention, however alone they cannot account for the gendered nature of educational experiences in times of conflict. In this talk Dr Liz Maber will rethink these connections, drawing on her work over the last 15 years in Myanmar and Bangladesh, to examine the varied and multi-directional ways in which gender intersects with education and conflict. Exploring the education work that happens beyond the state in times of crisis, through community groups and social movements, offers an entry point for reassessing priorities in learning and fundamental questions of who education is intended to serve and for what purpose.

Dr Liz Maber is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where her work focuses on gender and education in conflict and displacement, resistance to authoritarianism and militarization, and social transformation.