Organised by Hannah Dawson and Hannah Murphy.
A day’s colloquium to think about feminism as both a practice and an object of early modern history, and of history more broadly. We have a very open agenda: to bring people together from different disciplines and perspectives to think critically and synergistically about – perhaps – the political project of feminism in relation to the putatively objective discipline of history, how feminism relates to other political projects within the academy, how we can think intersectionally, inclusively and globally, how we can make sense of the category of ‘woman’ through time and space and in the contexts of race and class. Some speakers might talk very concretely about particular people and places and others might ruminate more theoretically. The more angles the better – the hope is that we’ll think together, and anew, about gender, power, marginality, and the lens of feminism, in history.
Panel 1 (11am - 12.30pm)
Susan James, ‘Becoming Canonical’
Meleisa Ono-George, ‘Amelia Newsham'
Catherine Boyle, ‘Raging against Language: Translating the “Unperformable” Ana Caro’
Chaired by Hannah Dawson.
Lunch (12.30pm - 1.30pm)
Panel 2 (1.30pm - 3.15pm)
Helena Taylor, ‘The individual and the collective in (early modern) feminism’
Sam Bailey, ‘Trans Capacity in Early Modern Book History’
Amy Louise Erickson, ‘Capital and Memory'
Chaired by Laura Gowing.
Tea & Coffee (3.15pm - 3.45pm)
Panel 3 (3.45pm - 5.15pm)
Amza Reading, ‘Beyond forgetting: Gender History and Feminist Memory Studies’
Jelke Boesten, ‘Debris: Feminist Epistemology and Perpetrator Research on Sexual Violence’
Lyndal Roper, ‘Sex and Gender in early modern and academic politics now’
Chaired by Emily Butterworth.