Guest Speaker: Dr Ann B. (Rusty) Shteir
‘Myths of Flora: Representing, Repudiating, Recuperating the Goddess of Flowers’
Women's Studies Group Workshop 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Guest Speaker: Dr Ann B. (Rusty) Shteir
‘Myths of Flora: Representing, Repudiating, Recuperating the Goddess of Flowers’
Stewart
House,
UCL, Russell Square, London W1
Saturday 25th June, from 10.00 to 5.00pm
Dr
Shteir is Professor of Women's Studies and Humanities, York University, Toronto,
Canada. She will introduce eighteenth-century Flora mythologies as depicted in
mythology textbooks and other visual and textual forms and discuss the different
interpretive methods for analysing the Flora Story.
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Delegates are invited to bring a five minute presentation on their own
area of study, particularly in the following subjects:
Women and Science; Women and Botany; Mythologies; Women's Writing in the
Long Eighteenth Century
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For further information, please contact Dr Teresa Barnard
Download a registration form here