The 2022 Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, as well as her state funeral, highlighted the importance of commemoration in the life of a nation. For Britain, these two instances of commemoration were focused on female representations of nationhood. Women’s History…
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Professor of Film
A gentle reminder of the deadline of 14 January to submit your panels, papers, round table proposals and practice presentations to the 6th edition of Doing Women’s Film and TV History at the University of Sussex. The FINAL call for…
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…
Friends of the Women’s Library
A number of people have said rail strikes next week will keep them at home on 14 December. We think it best to make Lucy Rogers’s talk on Pernel Strachey a Zoom-only event. More information on the event can be…
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…
SHAW ONLINE SEMINAR: Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the US Culture Wars
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) next online seminar: 13 December 2022, 6-7pm Please join us online on 13 December 2022 (6-7pm) to hear Charlie Jeffries (Sussex) in conversation with Grace Watkins (Yale Law School)…
Professor of Film
Dear colleagues The second call for papers for this conference and submission link is below. Please note this event will be in person with some opportunities for online participation. With apologies for cross-posting best wishes Lizzie Thynne Doing…
7th December 2022: Disability History Month Special Seminar – Senses of Technology: Deaf Women and the Telephone in the Soviet 1960s
Don’t miss our special Disability History Month seminar! Dr. Claire Shaw (Warwick) will share her paper on ‘Senses of Technology: Deaf Women and the Telephone in the Soviet 1960s’. Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 4pm GMT. Sign up on Zoom here.…