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October
Women In/On the Land(scape): Gender, Space and Environment in History
Friday 15 October 2010
The 2010 annual conference of Women's History Scotland will be held at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch from 15 - 16 October 2010.
For this conference we will be in the Highlands; hence the focus of this event on women’s relationship with the land and landscape. We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes) which engage with this theme over historical time and place. Proposals are not limited to Scottish themes (though papers addressing Highland and Island themes are especially welcome) and we invite comparative and non-Scottish topics.
We invite proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers and from independent researchers. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Women in rural communities; women, gender and urban and rural space; gender relations and land-use; environmental change and its impact on gender relations; representations of women and men in the landscape; gender and landscape design and architecture; demography and the land; land ownership, gender and property; the gendering of work on the land.
Proposals (300 words) for 20 minute papers plus brief biography should be submitted to Karly Kehoe karly.kehoe@thurso.uhi.ac.uk by 1 May 2010.
The Sue Innes Memorial Lecture (to be held on the opening night of the conference) will be given by Dr Stana Nenadic. Dr Nenadic will be speaking on 'The Highland Gentlewoman in the Highland Landscape, 1700-1900'.
The Programme and Registration form are available here
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/show.php?contentid=84
Past events
Gude Cause - October Procession
Saturday 10 October 2009
10th October 2009 hundreds of women, children and men take to the streets of Edinburgh to pay tribute to the women in Scotland who campaigned to obtain women’s right to vote and celebrate 100 years of women’s activism as they re-enact the original procession.
Join us on this special day that will deliver a history lesson on the streets of Edinburgh. The day will provide an energising focus and raise the profile of women’s activism as it demonstrates the power of women’s contribution to society, culture and all aspects of public and private life in 21st Century Scotland.
More info: http://www.gudecause.org.uk/?page_id=9
Gude Cause: Chrystal and the General
Friday 09 October 2009
A piece of interactive storytelling about Flora Drummond and Chrystal Macmillan. Performed by Suzanne Dance and Clunie Mackenzie; scripted by them with Jo Clifford.
7pm, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre (43-45 High Street, Edinburgh). £8/£6
More info: http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/
Gude Cause: Chrystal and the General
Thursday 08 October 2009
A piece of interactive storytelling about Flora Drummond and Chrystal Macmillan. Performed by Suzanne Dance and Clunie Mackenzie; scripted by them with Jo Clifford.
7pm, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre (43-45 High Street, Edinburgh). £8/£6
More info: http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/
Gude Cause Talk: How a Victorian book group became a nursery for Women's Rights Activists
Wednesday 07 October 2009
By Sian Reynolds (of Women's History Scotland, and former professor of Stirling University).
10:30am at the Museum of Edinburgh (Royal Mile).
To book a place contact Margaret Findlay, 0131 529 3963.
More info: http://
Gude Cause Talk: A Gude Cause Maks a Strong Arm
Tuesday 06 October 2009
An illustrated talk that will recall the 1909 procession and stories of some eminent suffrage campaingers in Edinburgh. By Lesley Orr (of Women's History Scotland).
10:30am at the Museum of Edinburgh (Royal Mile).
To book a place contact Margaret Findlay, 0131 529 3963.
More info: http://
3 Films about Women in association with Gude Cause
Sunday 04 October 2009
As a contribution to the Gude Cause programme of events this Autumn, WHS has organised a film show at Filmhouse, Edinburgh, starting at 1pm on 4 October. The following three films will be shown, preceded by a brief introduction, and followed by a discussion led by invited speakers (see Filmhouse website and programme for full details nearer the time).
RED SKIRTS ON CLYDESIDE (made in 1984) is documentary which looks at the process of rediscovering women's history using the 1915 Glasgow rent strike as a focal point.
ETHEL MOORHEAD (made in 1995) features Ethel Moorhead, a Scottish suffragette who, nspired by the uncompromising example of Scottish freedom-fighter, William Wallace, wanted to let other women know that if they wanted the vote they'd have to fight for it.
THE WORK THEY SAY IS MINE (made in 1986) celebrates women's central role in the past and present of Shetland life.
More info: http://www.filmhousecinema.com/
Gender She Wrote: Women’s Writing from a Historical Perspective
Saturday 13 October 2007
The theme of women’s writing is conceived to include all such activity from the mundane and everyday to the ambitious and high-flown – nothing is excluded. Invited speakers will revisit the importance of women’s literacy for providing evidence about gendered experience in the past.
Venue: Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling.
For registration and further information see below:
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/show.php?contentid=68