Call for Papers: University of Reading 19-21 April 2016 As part of an international research network funded by an AHRC network grant entitled ‘Mothering Slaves: Comparative Perspectives on Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies’ we…
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CFP for a Special Edition of Women’s Writing
Women’s Writings of World War I Emma Liggins and Elizabeth Nolan, Manchester Metropolitan University Feminist scholarship has already demonstrated that the experience of the trench soldier should not dominate our understandings of the First World War, recognising that women were…
Girl Studies Inaugural Conference 2016
International Girl Studies Association are seeking submissions for our inaugural conference in 2016. The inaugural conference seeks to bring together researchers and students working on girls and girlhood in any part of the world and in any discipline or interdisciplinary…
CFP: WOMEN, GENDER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: HOME FRONTS AND WAR FRONTS
One day Conference, University of Portsmouth, Saturday 10th October 2015 Venue: Park Building, 5 minute walk from Portsmouth & Southsea station The Conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on any aspect of the First World War relating to women and…
CFP: First Women Lawyers in England, Wales and the Empire Symposia
First symposium: Wednesday 9th September 2015 Location: St Mary’s University, The Shannon Board Room, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX Time: 10am (registration and coffee) for 10.30am start Abstract The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 heralded women’s long awaited entry to the legal profession. What…
‘What is the Place of Aphra Behn in Restoration Culture?’
‘What is the Place of Aphra Behn in Restoration Culture?’ Keynote Speaker Professor Elaine Hobby. Date: Saturday 9th May 2015 Time: 11:30am – 4.30pm (Registration: 11:00am) Venue: Torrington Room (No. 104), Senate House, University of London. Participants will be asked to…
Silence in the Archives: Censorship and Suppression in Women’s Life Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Silence in the Archives: Censorship and Suppression in Women’s Life Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century is being held at Wolfson College, Oxford, 7th November 2015, funded by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Oxford Research Centre in the…
Feminism and Critical Theory: Call for Papers
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, JUNE 20-21, 2015 In the face of enforced austerity, rampant and increasing inequality, systemic crises of political, economic and environmental organisation, and violence and injustice on a global scale, there has been a…
The First World War: Nursing: Call for Papers
A Conference organised by the Women’s History Network, Midlands region. Saturday 21 November: University of Worcester, City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester, WR1 3AS Edith Cavell was executed by a firing squad in Brussels on 12 October 1915 and as part of…