Wednesday, 27th January 2021 4:00pm (London) ‘Colleens, Cottages, and Rolling Green Fields’: The Making of Irish Women Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Royal Holloway, University of London This paper examines how a transnational vision of Ireland was created in the United States…
Category: Seminars
‘Make Room for Motherhood: American Post-Suffrage Feminism and the Unpublished Articles of Crystal Eastman’ with Amy Aronson on 13 January 2021
Wednesday, 13th January 2021 4:00pm (London) Three weeks after the suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, the suffragist, labor lawyer, anti-war activist, and feminist journalist Crystal Eastman attended a meeting of the National Woman’s Party. Now…
Christmas Book Club Special: Pandora’s Jar, Women in the Greek Myths with Natalie Haynes 4 pm on 16 December
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…
‘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…
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?…
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…