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…
Category: Seminars
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…
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…