Wednesday, 24th February 2021, 4pm (GMT) ‘Working Women and Global Industrialization: From Puerto Rican Needleworkers to Export Processing Zones’ Dr Aimee Loiselle, Postdoctoral fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project at Smith College Exploitation of women’s labor and exemptions to…
Category: Seminars
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories Programme and Registration Details We are excited to announce our inaugural student conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2021. This conference will celebrate all of the fresh perspectives that students bring to the study…
‘“Two women in one house/Never did agree”: Internalizing Misogyny in Late Medieval England and Scotland’ with Dr Carissa Harris, Temple University
Wednesday 10th February 2021, 4pm (London) ‘“Two women in one house/Never did agree”: Internalizing Misogyny in Late Medieval England and Scotland’ Carissa Harris, Associate Professor of English, Temple University Carissa Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and…
‘Colleens, Cottages, and Rolling Green Fields’: The Making of Irish Women with Dr Shahmima Akhtar on Wednesday 27 January 2021
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…
To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Women’s History Network are hosting two panel discussions aimed to explore and understand the journey of bringing women’s histories into the public sphere.
Presenting Women’s History: In the Community Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 4pm Community-led histories play a major part in unearthing and championing women’s histories. But where to start? An in-depth discussion and introduction into community projects, exploring research resources, available funding,…
‘Make Room for Motherhood: American Post-Suffrage Feminism and the Unpublished Articles of Crystal Eastman’ with Amy Aronson on 13 January 2021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…