Join us TOMORROW at 4pm BST as we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with an exciting paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner. Emily will be discussing how the early International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) meetings grew…
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Join us for the first paper of our Summer Seminar Series
One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’. To sign up…
Women Performers, their Writhing Reptiles and that Wrought Indian Connection – Debanjali Biswas
Please note that this article contains content that may be sensitive to readers with herpetophobia In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the British public was reportedly enthralled by a snake charmer’s performances. She was“richly attired in picturesque Hindoo…
Reminder of Summer Seminar Series
Summer Seminar Series A reminder to all that our Summer Seminar Series will be taking place in July, comprised of three seminars. Each of these seminars was originally due to take place earlier in the year but unfortunately had to…
Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Emily Rees Koerner, 3rd July 4pm BST
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, at 4pm BST Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s, Dr Emily Rees Koerner Delegates at the ICWES conference in Turin,…
The Cheadle Moon Exhibition: Commemorating Eighty Years Since the Death of Mary Adela Blagg, Astronomer and Selenographer – Samantha Hughes-Johnson
During Spring 2024 the market town of Cheadle in Staffordshire, often confused with its namesake just over the county border in Cheshire, has seen an influx of thousands of people keen to see the town’s Cheadle Moon exhibition, which commemorates…
Sayers in the 21st Century
CALL FOR PAPERS Sayers in the 21st Century 11 October, 2024 Proposals are invited for this one-day seminar to be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies (UCL) London, on the above date. The seminar aims to bring together early…
‘Screwdrivers, Scissors and Pliers’: The Electrical Association for Women in Interwar Scotland – Eleanor Peters
2024 marks the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW), an organisation that urged women to equip themselves with pliers, scissors, and screwdrivers and learn how to maintain and fix their electrical appliances – no repairman…
Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe, November 28-30, Rethymno Greece
Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East – Central Europe November 28-30, 2024, University of Crete, Campus of Gallos, Rethymnο We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming conference “Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans…