One-day Postgraduate and Early Careers Forum
Women, History and Sexuality
April 1st 10.30 am, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, H144
South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group (SCERRG)
We are pleased to announce a one-day postgraduate forum on 'Women, History and Sexuality'. The conference is interdisciplinary, combining approaches from the fields of English, history and philosophy, and discussing both contemporary feminism and the literature and history writing of the long eighteenth century. The theme is a 'light' one and speakers will present papers on a variety of topics.
Plenary speakers are: Dr Sue Morgan (Chichester), editor of The Feminist History Reader; and Dr Nina Power (Roehampton), author of One Dimensional Women (2009), speaking on issues in contemporary feminism. Entry is free and all are welcome. To register an interest, contact Fiona Price (F.Price@chi.ac.uk
Marvell and London
A two day conference to be held at Keble College, Oxford, 9-10 July, 2010, will
focus on Marvell’s representation of London in his work, and on the
imbrication of his poetic and satirical agendas in the landscape, politics and
society of the capital. Speakers will interrogate Marvell’s place within the
government of the Protectorate, his relations with other London writers, his
sense of place and also his sense of dis-placement from his original base in the
north, in his home city of Hull and with the Fairfax household at Nun Appleton.
Keynote speakers: Steven Zwicker, Derek Hirst, Martin Dzelzainis.
Also: Ian
Archer, Nicholas McDowell, David Norbrook, and Margaret Kean.
Papers include:
Martin Dzelzainis, 'Marvell south of the river'
Nick McDowell, ''I am a free-born Roman; suffer then, / That I amongst you live
a Citizen': Marvell, Herrick, and the Poetic Culture of Inter-War London'
David Norbrook, 'Epicurean landscapes'
Diane Purkiss, 'Bod MS Eng.Poet d. 49: what is it?'
A panel of Princeton and Oxford graduate students
Call for Papers
Women’s History Network Midlands Region
Conference April 24th 2010 9.30 – 1.30
University of Worcester
BAD WOMEN
Through out history women have often been labelled as deviant, deranged, dangerous, difficult, or even daring when their behaviour did not conform to contemporary notions of how femininity should be represented. Whether or not they were really `bad` is debatable.
Papers of 30 minutes are invited for this event which explore any of these themes. They may represent completed research or research in progress. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to:
Sue Johnson s.johnson@worc.ac.uk
IHCA
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ
Closing Date: January 29th. 2010
First call for Papers: Women’s Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800
August 25th-29th 2010, Prato, Italy.
Conference organisers: Associate Professor Karen Green, Dr Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt and Dr Paul Gibbard
Posted 29 January 2010
‘Celebrating Women's Writing’
A one-day conference at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Saturday, 19 June 2010.
Call for papers: deadline 31 March 2010. Please open the attached PDF file for further information.
Posted 29 January 2010
‘Writing Women’s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities’
A workshop series co-organised by the University of Kent’s Centres for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Writing.
This workshop series focuses upon women’s writing between the Early Modern period and early nineteenth century and the narratives told about it from the seventeenth century to the present. It attempts to map new directions for studies of women’s writing in these periods my focusing upon key flashpoints in women’s literary history: questions of genre; race and nationhood; and periodization.
Attendance at the workshops is free with coffee and tea provided in the morning break. Lunch can be purchased from various venues on campus (details provided on registration).
NB: Numbers are strictly limited. To attend one or all of the workshops in the series, please email Jennie Batchelor: J.E.Batchelor@kent.ac.uk.
GENRE WORKSHOP: 6 November 2009 (09:45 – 15:30)
Speakers: Dr Jennie Batchelor (Kent); Dr Amy Culley (Lincoln); Dr Elaine McGirr (Royal Holloway); Dr Marion O’Connor (Kent); Dr Catherine Richardson (Kent) Dr Gillian Wright (Birmingham)
RACE/NATION WORKSHOP: 26 February 2010 (10:00 – 16:00)
Speakers: Professor Kate Chedzgoy (Newcastle); Dr Gillian Dow (Southampton); Dr Fiona Price (Chichester); Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary)
PERIODISATION WORKSHOP: 18 June 2010 (10:00 – 16:00)
Speakers: Dr Helen Brooks (Kent); Professor Gregory Kucich (Notre Dame, London); Professor Donna Landry (Kent); Professor Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck).
Posted 31st October 2009
The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment
Durham University, 6-7 July 2010An interdisciplinary symposium for early career researchers, supported by the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Mitchell (Department of English, University of Wales, Lampeter)Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
-Dissection, the medical 'gaze' and medical illustration
-Corporeality and the flesh in the visual, written and performing arts
-The body in religious iconography, hagiography and religious performance
-Gesture, kinesics and the expression of emotions
-Corporal punishment and bodily shaming
-Clothing, garments and cosmetics and their significance
Papers of 20 minutes are invited from postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers working on any part of the period.
Studies looking at non-European countries are especially encouraged, as is flexibility in approaching the body as a visual, performative, aesthetic and representational entity. Please send abstracts (of no more than 300 words) to body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk by 30 January 2010.
Please see the website www.bodyondisplay.org.uk or email body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk for more information.
Posted 31st October 2009
University of Reading, School of English and American Literature
Mind → →Body Conference
Plenary Speaker: George Rousseau, University of Oxford
The Conference will explore ideas about the mind’s influence on the body across a wide range of disciplines
Thursday 12 July 2007, Whiteknights Campus
Posted 20th March 2007
Anne Laurence, Professor of History at the Open University, would like to announce the following one day conference:
The Economic History Society, Women's Committee
17th Annual Workshop on 'Women and Business'
11 November 2006
Room 311, the Michael Sadler Building, Leeds University
For further information please visit the Economic History Society website to download a programme and registration form or contact Anne Laurence
Posted 27th September 2006
The C18 Narrative Research Consortium based in the Dept. of English at the University of Exeter invites you to participate in this conference. The emphasis of the conference is on interdisciplinary approaches to studying the eighteenth century with the aim of encouraging and assessing different methods of reading narratives.
For further information, suggested panels and contact details, please visit the Narrating the Eighteenth Century conference website.
Posted 27th September 2006