Don’t miss our rescheduled Women’s History Month Special Seminar featuring Professor Karen Harvey, who will be sharing her research in a paper titled ‘Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820’! Wednesday, 7 June 2023, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for…
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27th May 2023: Local and Community History Month – Grabbing Back Project
Sign-ups are open for our special seminar in honour of Local and Community History Month in the UK! We’ve invited the Director and Editor of the Grabbing Back Project, Graciela Madrid and Katie Moody, to tell us all about their…
17th May 2023: AAPI Heritage Month Special Seminar – Gender, Labour, and Colonial Violence: Stories from German New Guinea
Join us for our inaugural AAPI Heritage Month special lunchtime seminar! Dr. Emma Thomas (University of New South Wales) will share her paper on ‘Gender, Labour, and Colonial Violence: Stories from German New Guinea’. Wednesday, 17th May 2023, 12pm BST/GMT+1…
SHAW Annual Conference, July 7th 2023
The SHAW one-day annual conference has been co-organised with Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us to hear a wide range of papers on topics that centre the experience of women or those who identify as women in the history of the…
Summer Seminar Series 2022/23 Programme
We are so excited to announce our programme for our upcoming Summer Seminar Series, commencing 17 May 2023! All seminars will take place online via Zoom, with registration opening 2-3 weeks before each session. Check out our full programme below…
19th April 2023: LGBTQ+ History Month Rescheduled Seminar – Refiguring ‘The Maternal’: The Body of Christ and Regimes of Sexual Difference in the Eighteenth-Century West
Don’t miss our rescheduled LGBTQ+ History Month special seminar! Thomas Fleming from UCL will be presenting his paper titled ‘Refiguring ‘The Maternal’: The Body of Christ and Regimes of Sexual Difference in the Eighteenth-Century West’. Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 4pm…
Maternal Bodies Symposium (Birmingham, 15 June 2023)
Maternal Bodies is an interdisciplinary one-day symposium taking place at the University of Birmingham on 15 June 2023. We are interested in… Embodiment: as women, mothers, birthing parents, non-birthing/adoptive/step-parents, etc Medical and social control of reproductive bodies Institutions, corporations, or…
5th April 2023: Academic Fellows Celebration – Early Career Research Fellows Roundtable
Join us for a very special session featuring our Women’s History Network Early Career Research Fellows! Our ECR Fellows will be sharing their work on a diverse and fascinating range of topics from the history of women’s masturbation to the…
[RESCHEDULED] 15 March 2023: Gender and Literary Engagement
ANNOUNCEMENT: In solidarity with the University and College Union (UCU) strikes taking place across the UK, this seminar session has now been RESCHEDULED. Sign-ups are still open, but please stay tuned for the announcement of our rescheduled date. This seminar…