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Category: Seminars

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‘How to Write the History of Motherhood?: A Conversation’ with Professor Sarah Knott and Dr Helen McCarthy

Kristin O'Donnell / November 4, 2020

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?…

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Visibility and Materiality in the Eighteenth Century

Kristin O'Donnell / October 21, 2020

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…

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Dr Erika Edwards, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina’.

Kristin O'Donnell / October 7, 2020

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

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 23, 2020

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…

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Ana Stevenson – The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements 

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 9, 2020

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…

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WHN Online Seminar Series 2020-2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / August 24, 2020

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…

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