Valedictory lecture Professor Wendy Harcourt

On 16 March 2026, Professor Wendy Harcourt will deliver her valedictory lecture entitled 'Connecting with Care: Pedagogies for transformation'

Professor

Professor Wendy Harcourt

International Institute of Social Studies

Date

Monday 16 Mar 2026, 16:00 - 17:00

Type

Valedictory lecture

Spoken Language

English

Room

Aula B

Location

International Institute of Social Studies

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Wendy Harcourt came to ISS not as a trained teacher but as a feminist and research activist, more used to speaking as an advocate than giving lectures.

In her valedictory lecture she will candidly share how she came to see teaching as a process of careful disruptions, as a way to provide hope and inspiration for collective transformation, rooted in pain and anger but also fired by vision and dreams for a more just and ecological sustainable futures.

She will take the audience through her teaching journey by asking ‘what does it mean to care when teaching’?

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University in The Hague.
She has published widely in critical development studies and feminist theory as well as feminist political ecology and has engaged in different gender and development networks over the years, including as Chair of Network Women in Development Europe and as Coordinator of the EU funded Innovative Training Network Wellbeing Ecology Gender and cOmmunity.