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…
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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…
Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture: Tracey Loughran on the history of problem pages
Professor Tracey Loughran, ‘”It’s Very Personal”: Sex and Relationships on the Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990’ Leeds Central Library, First Floor, Room 700, Leeds, LS1 3AB Thursday 23rd March 2023 5.30PM Book now (free, and all welcome): https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leedslibraryevents/t-yaedzyn The late twentieth…
Science, Gender and Sociability in a Northern City c. 1790-1820
Registration is now open for our upcoming conference: ‘Science, Gender and Sociability in a Northern City c. 1775-1820’. See for details https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/all/2023/science-gender-sociability-conference/ Conference Details Jane Ewbank (1778‒1824) the twenty-five year old daughter of a York druggist kept a 34,000-word diary…
SHAW ONLINE SEMINAR: Fiona de Londras (Birmingham Law School), ‘The Patterns and Purposes of Anti-Abortion Legal Experimentalism’.
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) next online seminar: Tuesday 17 January 2023, 6-7pm. Fiona de Londras (Birmingham Law School), ‘The Patterns and Purposes of Anti-Abortion Legal Experimentalism’. Abstract: US-based anti-abortion activists have long centred…
Visiting Professor, Turku University, Finland
Gender in the European Town Online book event on 18 January 2023 (Zoom) Welcome to the book launch of Deborah Simonton’s Gender in the European Town on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 2:30 GMT (3:30 CET, 4:30 EET). Moving from the mid-seventeenth century…
Call for Papers: Women, Money and Markets (1600-1950) – Sheffield Hallam University 12-14 June 2023
This annually-held conference addresses 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…
Science, Gender and Sociability in a Northern City c. 1790-1820
This is a preliminary announcement about the upcoming conference, ‘Science, Gender and Sociability in a Northern City c. 1775-1820’ which will run from 8-10 June 2023 at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York. This is an in-person…