We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa’. The seminar will take place on Zoom on…
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Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Historical Responses of Women to Global Vulnerabilities of Terrorism and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1980-2025’ with Dr Mubarak Tukur
Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Security…
Programme for Autumn Seminar Series 2023
We are so excited to announce the programme for our upcoming Autumn Seminar Series, commencing 13 September 2023! All seminars will take place online via Zoom, with registration opening 2-3 weeks before each session. Due to a change-over in seminar…
25th May 2022 WHN Seminar: Medieval Women’s History
25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…
Weds 6th April 2022 Seminar – Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes ‘Women’s Petitioning’
6th April 2022 with Dr Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes, a duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning Join us for this duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning in our Spring Series, featuring Dr Ciara Stewart, with the paper titled: ‘”Tyrannous and Immoral…
26th January 2022 ‘Heterosexuality and the “Happy Family”: Desire, Development, and Population Control in India, 1930s-1970s’
Join us for the second seminar of our Spring Series, featuring Dr Mytheli Sreenivas, with the paper titled: ‘Heterosexuality and the “Happy Family”: Desire, Development, and Population Control in India, 1930s-1970s’ Wednesday 26th January 2022 at 4pm GMT Register for…
Disability, Dance, and an Oppressive Mobilisation of Looking, by Georgia Gardner
I have been careful to also engage with disabled scholars whose experiences of disablism differ from my own, recognising the diversity within the disabled community. The patriarchal conditions of classical ballet illustrate the convergence of the male and clinical gazes,…
Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams
Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a large impact on the African-Caribbean London…
13th October: Black History Month 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin
13th October: Black History Month Wednesday, 13th October 2021, 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2Ld0QrWSmCm6MwyLs68aw Join us for these two fascinating papers in this double bill seminar that features as…