Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
Women, Gender and Culture Seminar
Hilary Term 2021
Convenor: Prof Selina Todd
Seminars will be held on Zoom at 1-2pm on Tuesdays in weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7.
19 Jan
Prof Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins), ‘Ordering the Disorderly: An Enslaved Mother’s Challenge to Abolition’s Gender Logic’ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-GrrDgpEtaK_zvHVlefeYjVoh9NTWcg
2 Feb
Prof Rosemary Auchmuty (Reading), ‘What is lesbian history and why does it matter?’ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldOGupz0vGtU6q1K43BrbrtygYvemCZ_O
16 Feb
Ms Bec Wonders (Glasgow School of Art), ‘Networks of conflict and liberation: what second-wave feminist periodicals can tell us about woman-controlled communication infrastructures’ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqc-Coqj4iEtQm8Hm418aHeZh-twkD8Efc
2 March
Prof Sarah Pedersen (Robert Gordon), ‘The politicization of Mumsnet – modern suffragettes?’ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsduihqzkjGNXqYnE9bfkHgr80vmvWLvgk
Please register in advance via the Zoom link
Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series Hilary 2020
‘Women and Education’
Marking one hundred years since women could be awarded degrees from Oxford
Faculty, early career researchers, graduate students, undergraduates and visitors
from all disciplines are very welcome. Please feel free to bring lunch.
Rees Davis Room History Faculty, George Street
Our usual meeting is Tuesdays odd weeks 1-2.30 (alternate weeks with CGIS)
Please note the change of day and time for our joint sessions
Tuesday 1-2.30 Week One
Helen Sunderland (Cambridge)
‘‘One of the greatest events in the history of our constituency’:
Schoolgirls’ mock elections in Edwardian England’
Tuesday 1-2.30 Week Three
Alexandria Dugal (Oxford)
‘Messengers of peace’: Kawai Michi, the Eiwa girls’ schools, and education in 1930s Japan
Joint sessions with the Modern History and Modern British History Seminar
Thursday 11.30-1 Week Five
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL) and Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
‘Vernacular discourses of gender equality in the postwar British working class’
Thursday 11.30-1 Week Six
Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
"The Problem with the "Home Front":
Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires"?
Tuesday 1-2.30 Week Seven
Hannah Jeans (York)
'Investigating women readers: genre and gender in seventeenth-century reading practices'
Thursday Week Eight (time and details TBC)
Joint session with Mansfield College and the Bonanavero Institute for Human Rights
A celebration for International Women’s Day with special guest speaker
Convenors
Lyndsey Jenkins (St John’s) and Alice Blackwood (Linacre)
Lyndsey.Jenkins@sjc.ox.ac.uk or Alice.Blackwood@linacre.ox.ac.uk
All staff, early career researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students and visitors are welcome.
Do join us in weeks 4 and 6 to hear from graduate speakers:
Week 4: 12-1.30pm, Tuesday 21st May 2019 Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty
Grace Heaton - ‘Smashing the Stained Glass Ceiling’: An exploration of the campaigns for female ordination in the Church of England, 1968-1994
Aleena Din - British-Pakistani women and the pursuit of adult learning, 1962-2002
Week 6: 12-1.30pm, Tuesday 4th June 2019 Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty
Alice Billington - Educational leaflets concerning menstruation for adolescent girls in twentieth century Britain: Knowledge, stigma and etiquette
Anna Dobrowolska - Sexual (r)evolutions in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Poland
Gender, Women, and the Arts
Tuesdays 12-1.30pm
Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, George Street
All staff, early career researchers, graduate students,
undergraduate students and visitors are welcome*
Week 2: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Dr Julia Mannherz – Performing Glinka’s opera ‘A Life for the Tsar’ on the village stage: women choir directors in early twentieth-century Russia
Week 4: Tuesday 5th February 2019
Dr Rhiannon Easterbrook – Modern metamorphoses: interiority, commerce, and the Pygmalion myth in late nineteenth-century Theatre
Week 6: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Dr Natalie Bradbury – Nan Youngman (1906-1995): Artist and Educationalist
Week 8: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Dr Camilla Røstvik – ‘The Painters Are In’: Visual Culture and Menstruation 1950-2020
Convenors: Christina de Bellaigue & Anna Louise Senkiw
*You are welcome to bring your lunch or to join the speaker & convenors for an inexpensive meal after the seminar.
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays in the History Faculty Oxford
24 April (Week 1): Undergraduate Thesis Workshop [11.30-1.00pm, Lecture Theatre]
This event is open to all undergraduate students considering writing a thesis on any aspect of women's or gender history. You will have the opportunity to hear from experienced members of staff about the support available at Oxford for dissertaton in these areas. You will also be able to hear more about the research and writing process from history students who have completed their dissertations
Speakers:
Rosanna Tabor
Amelia Gosztony
Hollie Eaton
1 May (Week 2): Title TBC [11.30-1.00pm, Rees Davis Room]
Speaker: TBC
Chair: TBC
15 May (Week 4): Doctoral Dissertation Workshop [11.00-1.00pm, Rees Davis Room]
Speakers: TBC
This seminar is convened by Senia Paseta, Ruth Percy, Marilyn Booth, Charlotte Jeffries.
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays, 11:30-1pm in the Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street, Oxford, except for Thursday 25 January, which is a joint session with the Modern History Seminar.
25 January (11.30-1.30): New Directions in Suffrage Historiography
Speakers: Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford), Naomi Paxton (Houses of Parliament and University of Lincoln) and Zoe Thomas (Birmingham)
Chair: Senia Paseta
6 February: Feminism, Scandal and the Labour Party in 1970s Britain *POSTPONED*
Speaker: Sarah Crook (Oxford)
Chair: Ruth Percy
20 February: Teenage Girls in the 1980s Feminist Sex Wars.
Speaker: Charlotte Jeffries (Oxford)
Chair: Marilyn Booth
6 March: Mobility, migration and place: locating female servants in the English community, 1550-1650.
Speaker: Charmian Mansell (Oxford and Exeter)
Chair: Charlotte Jeffries (Oxford)
This seminar is convened by Senia Paseta, Ruth Percy, Marilyn Booth, Charlotte Jeffries.
