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Past events
Irish-Scottish Women’s History Conference
Friday 24 April 2009
The Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI) and Women’s History Scotland (WHS) announce the first joint Irish-Scottish Women’s History conference to be held on the 24th/25th April 2009 in Trinity College Dublin.
The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies (CGWS), School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin under the auspices of the Irish Scottish Academic Initiative.
The themes of the conference are: religion, rebellions and migration. Paper proposals should indicate under which theme they wish to be considered. Please send paper proposals to Dr. Maryann Valiulis, President, WHAI at maryann.Valiulis@tcd.ie Proposals should be no longer than 250 words.
Call for Papers: by December 1, 2008
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/fileuploads/dublin2009cfp-1-0393.doc
JOURNAL OF THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR ART HISTORY: CALL FOR PAPERS
Wednesday 30 April 2008
VOLUME XIII 2008. The 2008 edition of the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History will be focused on the Highlands and Islands and will be guest-edited by Lesley Lindsay of the Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, in association with Window to the West / Uinneag dhan Àird an Iar, a project funded by AHRC from 2005 to 2010.
The theme of this special issue is Art and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Some papers for this section will be drawn from the conference A Context for Highland Art held at the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, jointly convened by the society and the Window to the West Project in September 2007. In addition we will consider any paper exploring the history of art in the Highlands or responses to contemporary art projects in the Highlands. The latter might be focused on the work of a specific artist or an artistic group or collaboration.
Please send notifications of interest (with, if possible, a 250-300 word abstract)
The official deadline for submission of papers is 30th April, 2008. Papers should normally be 3000-4500 words plus notes etc, though, as noted above, shorter pieces will be considered. For full contributors’ guidelines please visit the SSAH website at http://www.ssah.org.uk or e-mail
More info: l.lindsay@dundee.ac.uk
'Brilliant Women: Gender and Intellect, Reputation and Representation'
Friday 25 April 2008
A two-day conference at the National Portrait Gallery, 25-26 April 2008
This conference will address the themes of gender, learning, and display that are the subject of the exhibition Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings (13 March-15 June 2008).
Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in partnership with King's College London, this interdisciplinary conference will place the intellectual woman in her broader historical and cultural context. In the mid-eighteenth century, the literary and artistic woman was celebrated for the first time as a figure of patriotic pride and the index of national supremacy. Yet despite this period of ascendancy, the learned woman's position was precarious and scandals threatened to eclipse the fame of individual women, such as Hester Thrale, Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. This conference will develop the themes of the exhibition Brilliant Women: 18th- Century Bluestockings (13th March to 14th June 2008) and will explore the achievements, representations and reputation of intellectual women in the eighteenth century.
More info: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wobrilliantwomenconf.asp
A Woman’s Island? Shetland Women: Past, Present and Future
Saturday 21 April 2007
Shetland’s history has a powerful influence on the ways in which the islands’ inhabitants perceive themselves and their identity. The combination of a wealth of scholarly studies on Shetland and the local interest in the past, as well as the development of a £10 million centre for Shetland Museum and Archives, present a great opportunity to consider the dominant representations of Shetland’s past. In particular we aim to investigate the connections between the idea of Shetland as a female dominated society in the past, and present-day gender relations as manifested in a variety of contexts: work, art, literature and poetry, textiles, musicl and so on.
Venue: Shetland Museum and Archive, Lerwick, Shetland