Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2020
Save the Date: 3-4 September 2020
Homes, Food and Farms
Venue – Denman College, New Rd, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6NW.
…How Women Build Call for papers
How Women Build
A two-day conference, Wikithon Event and Exhibition at the Manchester School of Architecture – 26-27thJune 2020
Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Women’s History Network
Keynote Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Darling (editor of ‘Suffragette City’ (together with Nathaniel Robert Walker, Routledge, 2019)and Dr Sonja Dümpelmann (editor of ‘Women, Modernity and Landscape Architecture’ (together with John Beardsley; Routledge, 2015)and author of the biography of Maria Theresa Parpagliolo Shephard (Weimar: WDG, 2004)
Call for papers
This two-day conference at the Manchester School of Architecture will …
Education and Empire: What’s Florence Nightingale got to do with it? By Dr. Rebecca Swartz
What did Florence Nightingale have to do with colonial education? That was a question I had to ask myself when I came across her 1863 survey of education and health of Indigenous children in colonial schools in the British Empire. Nightingale’s study, which included statistics from one hundred and forty-three schools in South Africa, Australia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Canada and Sierra Leone, concluded that education did not lead to any negative health outcomes for Indigenous children, but it must be adapted to local circumstances to achieve the best results.
Nightingale’s conclusion about education being adapted to the needs of …
CFP: The ‘Madwoman’ and the Institution: Interrogating the Experience of Female Insanity in the Long Nineteenth Century – 1 April 2020
This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis, treatment, care and representation of women perceived as ‘insane’.
This period saw the institutionalization of large swathes of the population, including those considered mentally ill. Simultaneously, medical advancements and increased interest in mental illness saw a specific focus on conditions often typified as ‘female’, with disorders attributed to their reproductive organs and bodies. Places of treatment and care – such as public asylums, private madhouses, workhouses or prisons – were typically patriarchal institutions, run by males, with women diagnosed …
Wives, Widows and Carers
Call for Papers
Wives, Widows and Carers
Saturday 28 March
at St Giles Hospice, Fisherwick Rd, Whittington, Lichfield WS14 9LH
This conference is organised by The Women’s History Network: Midlands Region
Women in all societies across all historical periods have been defined by their roles as wives, widows or carers. Such roles, although ubiquitous, are not always well recorded or discussed in mainstream history. This conference therefore seeks to both recover the histories of such women and to think critically about what these roles mean for women.
Are such roles a source of power, pain or pleasure?
How have individual …
Dictionary of British Women Artists by Dr Sara Gray
For ‘throwback Thursday’, Dr. Sara Gray gives us a glimpse into her 2009 book, Dictionary of British Women Artists.
The history of women artists remains largely uncharted even today, but particularly the history of British women artists. When I started researching for a Ph.D. thesis in the 1990s, it was virtually impossible to find anything much about women in British art or the decorative arts, other than the occasional reference here and there in a history book. Not coincidentally, most of the art history books I checked were written by men!
When I began to research old journals and newspapers …
