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November
There are no current events for this month.
Past events
Gude Cause Talk: Scottish-American connections in the suffrage and temperance movements, c.1870-1914
Thursday 19 November 2009
Talk by Dr Megan Smitley on the significance of temperance women's suffragism, highlighted through an exploration of connections with North American feminism.
Megan Smitely will also be signing copies of her new book, 'The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle-Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c.1870-1914' (MUP 2009).
2pm at the Museum of Edinburgh (Royal Mile).
To book a place contact Margaret Findlay, 0131 529 3963.
More info: http://
Gude Cause Talk: Women and the Struggle for Equality
Thursday 12 November 2009
Talk by Helen Kay on the suffragist and peace campaingner Chrystal Macmillan and on the aims and activities of Gude Cause.
2pm at the Museum of Edinburgh (Royal Mile).
To book a place contact Margaret Findlay, 0131 529 3963.
More info: http://
'Feminism and History: Rethinking women's movements since 1800'
Saturday 15 November 2008
Bishopsgate Institute, London.
Organizers: History of Feminism Network
Sponsors: Bishopsgate Institute, Raphael Samuel Centre (UEL), Department
of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London
This one-day conference will explore the relationship between writing
feminist history and the history of feminism. It aims, on the one hand,
to generate an historical perspective on the rise of women's, gender and
feminist history within the context of the Women's Liberation movement
in the 1970s and 80s. On the other, it hopes to act as a forum in which
new approaches to the history of feminism can be discussed and
developed.
Focusing on women's ideas and struggles since 1800, we aim to develop
new insights into both the history of feminism as a social, cultural and
intellectual movement; and the past and present writing of feminist
historiography.
Postgraduate students and early career academics working on any area of
the history of women's movements during this period are invited to
submit papers which might fruitfully engage, but are not limited to,
some of the following themes:
* How do we define the 'feminist' past when we write its history
and who
can we legitimately identify as 'feminists'?
* How has the fracturing of both the category of 'woman' and the
feminist
movement impacted upon the writing of feminist history?
* Is a commitment to feminist politics still necessary in order to
write
the history of women and their struggles?
* How has entry into the academic mainstream shaped feminist
history?
* How might women today go about recording and writing the
histories of
their own movements and struggles for liberation?
* What does it mean to be a feminist historian today?
The conference will open with a keynote address from Professor Barbara
Taylor (UEL) and will close with a round table discussion between Dr.
Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan), Dr. Lucy Delap (Cambridge), Dr.
Kathryn Gleadle (Oxford), and Dr. Margaretta Jolly (Sussex) around the
question:
'Is there a future for feminist history?'.
It is envisaged that the conference will result in a publication.
Please send a 300 word abstract to history.feminism@googlemail.com by 1
April 2008.
Notification of acceptance will be given before 1 May 2008.
Conference organizers: Marc Calvini-Lefebvre (Goldsmiths), Esme Cleall
(UCL), Angela Grainger (London Metropolitan), Daniel Grey (Roehampton),
Dr Naomi Hetherington (Roehampton) & Laura Schwartz (UEL).
More info: history.feminism@googlemail.com
"Political women 1500-1900"
Wednesday 12 November 2008
The theme Political Women 1500 – 1900 comprises research on women who were politically active in Europe before the breakthrough of political democracy.
Paper proposals should be written in English. The number of participants will be limited to 125.
Deadline for proposals (1 page): April 15, 2008.
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2008.
N.B. Please mark your proposal with either “Paper proposal for sessions” or “Paper proposal for workshop”. All proposals should be written in English.
Deadline for submission of accepted papers: October 1, 2008.
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to:
kaarina.streijffert@umea-congress.se.
The website for the conference is now live "Political Women 1500-1900" 12-14 November in Umeå, Sweden
More info: http://www.umea-congress.se/politicalwomen2008.html
Gendering Imperialism: home, colony and the construction of gender identities
Saturday 08 November 2008
Gender has increasingly informed research into the British and other European empires in recent historical scholarship. This conference will address various aspects of the gendered experience of empire and imperialism within the British empire and other European empires, including the experience of women, the impact of empire on gender relations and changing constructions of gender roles, including conceptions of masculinity. The conference will also explore the interaction of gender with other categories of identity formation such as class and race, and interrogate the concept of an undifferentiated ‘British’ empire. Research on aspects of the English experience of empire has often been overgeneralised as ‘British’, and we particularly encourage contributions which consider national (i.e. Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English), regional and local experience of engagement with empire and its impact on the construction of gender identities. This conference also seeks to address gender from the perspectives of scholars and historians working on the impact of imperialism in, for example, South Asia, Africa, Canada and other white settler colonies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Andrea Major, University of Edinburgh; Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University; John MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh; and Adele Perry, University of Manitoba (tbc).
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/show.php?contentid=74
Sheila Rowbotham Book Launch, Edinburgh
Saturday 01 November 2008
Sheila Rowbotham, Professor of Gender and Labour History at Manchester University is launching her new book at 15.15 as part of 'Word Power's 12th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair. Full programme details on the Word Power website.
More info: http://www.word-power.co.uk
Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
Saturday 03 November 2007
The Eighteenth Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
William Robertson Building, University of Edinburgh.
Topic: "Scotland, Union, Empire"
For programme and booking form check the Economic History Society website.
Organisers: Nuala Zahedieh n.zahedieh@ed.ac.uk and Claire Swan c.e.swan@dundee.ac.uk.
More info: http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/women.asp