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…
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‘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…
Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, November 2021
With regret WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History scheduled for November 7 2020 has been postponed until November 2021. (Exact date TBC) Confirmed papers…
Ana Stevenson – The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements
September 23, 2020 10:30 AM London Ana Stevenson is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her topic is ‘The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements’. This follows her acclaimed recent publication…
WHN Online Seminar Series 2020-2021
Mark you diaries for the WHN 2020-2021 online 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…
Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 7 November 2020 has been postponed – look out for new date
WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester seeks papers for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women in Sport’. The last decade has seen an upsurge in female participation in sport, with girls…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2-4 September 2021 – Homes, Food and Farm
Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2 – 4 September 2021 Homes, Food and Farms *2nd- 4th September 2021 * This is now going to be an online conference. In recent years Women’s History has made a significant contribution to debates and explorations…
NAPS Symposium (Session 1) – Mediating Gender in Magazines: Gender, Tension, and the Internal ‘Civil War’ of Magazines by Maxwell Donaldson
The recent Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS) symposium, hosted at Northumbria University, was titled ‘Mediating Gender in Magazines’. The Women’s History Network (WHN) provided the travel stipend that allowed me to attend this event. During the morning session of…
Postponed How Women Build Call for papers
How Women Build A two-day conference, Wikithon Event and Exhibition at the Manchester School of Architecture – 26-27thJune 2020 postponed – look out for a new date to be announced for 2021 Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies…