Conferences
CFP: Crossing, highlighting, transfering intersectionality : exploring the evolution of a militant concept
Appel à communications / Call for papers
Colloque international/ International Conference
Croiser, révéler// Intersectionnalité et transfert des savoirs : itinéraire d’un concept militant
Crossing, highlighting// Transfering intersectionality : exploring the evolution of a militant concept
14-15-16 November 2018.
Université Paris Diderot, bâtiment Sophie Germain, amphi Turing,
8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris, FRANCE
Organisers : Prof. Myriam Boussahba-Bravard and Dr. Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun LARCA-UMR8225, université Paris Diderot; Dr. Frédérique Berthet, CERILAC, université Paris Diderot.
myriam.boussahba-bravard@univ-paris-diderot.fr
delanoee@univ-paris-diderot.fr
berthet.frederique@wanadoo.fr
Supported by LARCA-UMR8225 (université Paris Diderot), Fabrique du politique (université Paris Diderot), Institut Émilie Du Chatelet, and the support of the university cultural events …
CALL FOR PAPERS: First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire: “The Road to 1919”
Deadline for papers: 23 April 2018
Conference date: 29 June 2018
Venue: Jubilee Room, Palace of Westminster
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-road-to-1919-tickets-42979998332
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 heralded women’s long-awaited entry to the legal profession. What do we actually know about that journey? How much of that struggle has been recorded? Where is it recorded? The ‘First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire’ Symposia seek to unite academics and researchers in this area and explore the journey of those first women lawyers. …
CFP: Women, Money and Markets (1700-1900) Amsterdam, June 2018
University of Amsterdam, June 7 and 8, 2018
This conference will address the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, theatre and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern-day issues about the presence and position of women in the economy, the market and the media.…
100 Years+ of the Women’s Movement in Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Researchers are invited to submit ideas on any aspect of the above theme for a community research workshop. Proposals are welcome for talks of 15-20 minutes duration or contributions to round table sessions (10 minutes each). Academics, students and independent researchers are all equally welcome to propose ideas. Suitable topics include any subject from the women’s suffrage movement to contemporary activism in the 21st century, with reference to Kent and/or Sussex and/or Surrey. Please send your ideas to Dr Anne Logan a.f.logan@kent.ac.uk by 1 June 2018.…
CFP: Correspondence & Communities
5 July 2018, Bangor University, Wales
The Epistolary Research Network (TERN) seeks to bring into discussion those involved in the study of letters and letter writing, as well as those participating in the creation or preservation of letters and epistolary collections. The theme of TERN’s inaugural symposium will be Correspondence & Communities. Communities might refer to the linking of groups or individuals who share common interests or facets of identity. Potential themes might include the communal reading of letters, exchanges between individuals and governing bodies concerning public issues or open letters. Equally, contributions might address one, or several, of the …
