The Greek myths are among the world’s most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters…
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‘Women’s Long Battle for the Vote: Surprises on the Road to the Nineteenth Amendment’, Prof. Ellen Carol DuBois
Wednesday 2 December 2020 16:00 (London) Women’s Long Battle for the Vote: Surprises on the Road to the Nineteenth Amendment Ellen Carol DuBois, Distinguished Research Professor UCLA Women’s Long Battle for the Vote: Surprises on the Road to the…
Studying Herstories: WHN Online Student Conference – Call for Papers
The Women’s History Network (WHN) are seeking proposals from students working in women’s history, to present at our Inaugural Student Conference on 8 March 2021, International Women’s Day. This Conference will be a welcoming, supportive and inclusive space, offering the…
Winter Seminar Series
Please join us in engaging with historians from all over world as they present their latest research on a diverse array of topics within women’s and gender history. The seminars will also provide the opportunity to ask questions of the…
‘How to Write the History of Motherhood?: A Conversation’ with Professor Sarah Knott and Dr Helen McCarthy
Wednesday 18 November 14.30 GMT (London) How does thinking historically change our understanding of motherhood? What conceptual and methodological approaches best illuminate histories of mothering? What place (if any) might be given to personal experience when writing such histories?…
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present Symposium 8-9 April 2021 Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Rarely in recent history has a global event such as the current pandemic brought…
Visibility and Materiality in the Eighteenth Century
Wednesday 4 November 4pm (London) Join us for a double bill of papers exploring visibility and materiality in the eighteenth century. The ‘Black Woman’ of London: A comparative study of the black female migrant assimilation in London, 1700-1850’ Montaz…
Dr Erika Edwards, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina’.
Wednesday October 21 4.00pm (London) Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina This presentation is a gendered analysis of black invisibility in Argentina. It focuses on Black and African descended women who actively…
‘New Feminist Economic Histories of Women’s Labour in Twentieth Century Asia
7 October 4pm (London) Women Beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India, 1920s-1940s Urvi Khaitan, Doctoral Student, University of Oxford This paper studies the tens of thousands of low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) women who worked in coal…