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September
Performing the Self: Women’s Lives in Historical Perspective
Friday 10 September 2010
Women’s History Network 19th Annual National Conference
Papers are invited for the 19th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network. The idea that selfhood is performed has a very long tradition. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse representations of women's identities in the past and consider how these were articulated. Papers are particularly encouraged which focus upon the following:
Writing women's histories
Gender and the politics of identity
Ritual and performance
The economics of selfhood: work and identity
Feminism and auto/biography
Performing arts
Teaching women's history
Venue: University of Warwick
Abstract deadline: 5 March 2010. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to whnconference2010@googlemail.com.
For more information please contact Dr Sarah Richardson sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.
More info: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/res_rec/conferences/whn/
Past events
WHS Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Workshop: The Past is Myself
Saturday 26 September 2009
'The Past is Myself: Women’s Life Narratives and Women’s History'.
Merchiston Campus, Lecture Theatre B, Napier University, Edinburgh.
Characteristically, women’s history has been innovative in applying a wide range of methodological techniques and theoretical positions to the uncovering of the past. In particular, the recovery or collection of women’s narratives has been a way in which women’s history has self-consciously created historical data for the future. This workshop will engage with work that has or is being done in the field of life narratives.
Keynote speaker: Dr Trev Broughton, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
See Homepage - www.womenshistoryscotland.org - for provisional programme and registration form.
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org
Crime and Policing in Scottish Society Conference
Saturday 26 September 2009
This conference aims to generate discussion of many aspects of crime and policing in Scottish society, covering the period from the 16th to the 20th Century, to assess how the field has developed in Scotland and the directions it might take in future.
Confirmed speakers: Elizabeth Ewan, Rab Houston, Anne-Marie Kilday, Bill Knox, Peter King, Alison Brown, Tim Siddons, Suki Haider, Louise Jackson, Angela Bartie, David Smale, Alan Wilson, Anne Marie Tindley and Stuart Mackenzie.
£5 registration fee to cover refreshments payable on the day. For more information and booking form contact Lillian Porch at L.H.Porch@open.ac.uk
Women's History Network 18th Annual Conference
Friday 11 September 2009
Women, Gender and Political Spaces: Historical Perspectives
St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009
More info: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/conferences/whn/index.htm
Orkney International Science Festival 2009 (3-9 September)
Thursday 03 September 2009
Orkney International Science Festival 2009 (3-9 September).
As part of this year's Festival, as for last year's, there will be events featuring women of Orkney (all of whom appear in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women), organised in collaboration with WHS. At Stromness, on 8 September, there will be talks on Margaret Gardiner and Marjorie LInklater, and throughout the week there will be an exhibition in Kirkwall Library featuring these and other women of Orkney.
More info: http://www.oisf.org/
Walking the Tightrope : the Impact and Challenges of Women Leading Scotland
Thursday 18 September 2008
On September 18th 2008 the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Scotland is bringing together some of the top women who lead Scotland to speak at a special half day conference in Edinburgh.
Under discussion will be how women are equipped to face the challenges in leadership as well as celebrating the triumphs of the women leading Scotland's businesses and public life. There will be an opportunity for you to put your questions to a panel of top business minds and plenty of time to network over lunch.
The day will begin at 09.00 with registration and refreshments. In addition, there will be creche facilities available at the conference to keep any small leaders in waiting busy! We will be addressed by top female leaders in the political field, in public service adn the private sector as well as hearing from Miles Templeman the IoD Director General on the leadership challenge in general.
Venue: George Hotel Edinburgh.
Address: Kate Dow, IoD, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE
More info: kate.dow@iod.com
17th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network
Friday 05 September 2008
This conference encourages comparison of women’s life cycle experiences both across the widest possible range of times and places, and with the life cycle experiences of men. The focus will also be on inter-generational relations as an important, yet often neglected, explanatory factor in either continuity or change over time.
Keynote speakers include Professor Lynda Coon, University of Arkansas, and Dr. Michael Roper, University of Essex.
Dr. Rosemary Elliot, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow ,Lilybank House, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT
E-mail: r.elliot@lbss.gla.ac.uk
More info: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/historicalstudies/researchcentres/centreforgenderhistory/events/conference/
17th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network, 5-7 September 2008.
Friday 05 September 2008
Concepts and experiences of the life-course have been critical to making sense of gender difference and women’s lives in the past, and have traditionally been a central concern of historians of women. Integral to pioneering work on the history of reproduction and the family, work and leisure, and the body, science and medicine, analysis of the life cycles of women has nonetheless left many questions yet to be explored. This conference encourages comparison of women’s life cycle experiences both across the widest possible range of times and places, and with the life cycle experiences of men. The focus will also be on inter-generational relations as an important, yet often neglected, explanatory factor in either continuity or change over time.
Keynote speakers include Professor Lynda Coon, University of Arkansas, and Dr. Michael Roper, University of Essex.
Possible themes include: fertility and virility; reproductive rituals; the history of the body; motherhood and fatherhood; productive and reproductive divisions of labour; inheritance, women and property; the history of childhood; youth culture; courtship and marriage; gender and old age; death and dying; family histories; sibling relationships; inter-generational conflict; generations and change.
More info: r.elliot@lbss.gla.ac.uk
HISTORY AND THE HEALTHY POPULATION: SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Wednesday 03 September 2008
Annual conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine www.sshm.org/
The Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual Conference will be jointly organised by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow, a research collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Strathclyde (www.gcal.ac.uk/historyofhealth and the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow (www.arts.gla.ac.uk/History/Medicine/)
The conference will embrace all historical perspectives on the broad issue of how health has been defined and by whom. It will also consider the reasons that the various agencies involved in healthcare, including patients and communities, have adopted their approaches and strategies. The event is framed by reference to the generation of historians influenced by the idea that issues of health and healthcare are entangled in the projects of government, and seeks to engage with and critique 'governmentality' as a tool of analysis in the history of medicine.
The conference encourages papers from all periods and places in seeking a wide-ranging and inclusive set of discussions.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2008
To submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words please contact Lydia Marshall lmarshall@arts.gla.ac.uk
More info: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=158560
Women's Studies Group (London): Autumn Programme
Saturday 22 September 2007
The Women's Studies Group: 1558-1837 is a small, informal multi-disciplinary group formed to promote women's studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century. The group meets in the Senate House of the University of London , on Malet Street , W1.
Currently the group meets roughly every other month and features (as a new policy) two speakers.
Our first papers this Autumn will be:
Ana Vogrincic, “Gossip in Eighteenth-Century England : Between Literature and Sociability".
14:00pm, Room NG 14 North Block Senate House, ground floor.
AND
Linda Bree, “Editing Jane Austen’s Manuscripts,”
15:00, same venue.
More info: http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/
Scottish Women in Film at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Thursday 20 September 2007
From 18.30.
An evening to celebrate remarkable women in film and their achievements. The films will be accompanied by short talks, and guest speakers include Janet McBain, head of the Scottish Screen archive, Margaret Bennett, formerly of the Schools of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University, and Rose Pipes, co-ordinating editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
The work of some of the women film makers featured in the Dictionary are being screened as part of this women's double-bill event. There will be a break for refreshments before the screening of The Seventh Veil.
More info: http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/show.php?contentid=70
Special issue of: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
Saturday 15 September 2007
In 2008 Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme will publish a special issue on Disorder and Crisis in Early Modern Scotland, edited by Sarah Dunnigan (English, University of Edinburgh) and Elizabeth Ewan
(History/Scottish Studies, University of Guelph). The journal invites completed papers as well as expressions of interest in advance, and authors are strongly encouraged to contact Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca or Sarah Dunnigan at s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk for full details. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2007. Information about the journal can be found at www.renref.ca.
More info: http://www.crrs.ca/renref/english/rrenglish.htm
Gender, Representation and Self-Representation
Wednesday 05 September 2007
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th September 2007, University of Dundee, Scotland
More info: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/wcs/