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January
There are no current events for this month.
Past events
NEW COURSE: Bonnie Fechters: Women in Scottish Society 1850-2000
Monday 14 January 2008
Jane George, M A, PhD
A gendered perspective of the unsung heroines in Scottish history, exploring the economic, social and political experiences of their inspirational lives through visual, oral and written sources.
This course will provide a 'her'story of women in Scotland and introduce students to the contribution made by women to Scottish society in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mondays from January 14 2008 (11 classes) 10.00 - 12 noon £80.00/£53.00 conc.
The Office of Lifelong Learning,
University of Edinburgh,
11 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW,
0131 650 4400
More info: http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/cpe/opens/courses/offers?Course=C1827&YearSession=2007
Gender and Medieval Studies: Conference
Friday 11 January 2008
The concept of difference enables us
to explore medieval gender in a
number of ways. It allows us to think about the
construction of gender,
through its relationship to various other
categories of difference such
as social status, sexualities, and ethnicity, and
age. It also allows us
to think about how gender is used to construct,
articulate, and represent
various forms of difference. Explorations of the
gendering of objects and
the monstrous, for example, can illuminate, blur,
or challenge binary
distinctions. This conference seeks to provide a
forum in which such
approaches can be discussed and developed. Papers
are encouraged from a
wide range of disciplines, such as art history,
literature, archaeology,
and history. In particular, the conference hopes
to encourage
interdisciplinary discussion about the theoretical
and practical
implications that ideas of difference have on
gender studies. Themes to
consider could include:
Religion, Ethnicity and Race;
Regional Difference and National Identity;
The Monstrous, Outsiders and the Other;
Marital Status, Age and Social Status as;
Categories of Difference;
Sexualities;
The Blurring of Difference;
More info: http://www.medievalgender.co.uk/
Public Lecture given by Prof Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph
Friday 11 January 2008
BRAVE-HEARTED WOMEN AND MEN: GENDERING THE SCOTTISH MIDDLE AGES. A public lecture sponsored by the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of
Edinburgh as part of the Annual Gender and
Medieval Studies Conference, 'Gender and
Difference in the Middle Ages':
Professor Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph,
Canada.
Friday 11 January 2008: 6-7pm David
Hume Tower Lecture Theatre B, Edinburgh
University, followed by reception
Venue Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Tower, George
Square, Edinburgh University
More info: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/071203ewan.html
NEW COURSE: Bonnie Fechters: Women in Scottish Society 1850-2000
Sunday 14 January 2007
A new course -
University of Edinburgh: Open Studies - Part-time history course for adults.
Jane George, M A, PhD.
A gendered perspective of the unsung heroines in Scottish history, exploring the economic, social and political experiences of their inspirational lives through visual, oral and written sources.
This course will provide a 'her'story of women in Scotland and introduce students to the contribution made by women to Scottish society in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mondays from January 14 2008 (11 classes) 10.00 - 12 noon £80.00/£53.00 conc.
The Office of Lifelong Learning,
University of Edinburgh,
11 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW,
0131 650 4400
More info: http://