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Women’s History Network Annual Conference 4th – 6th September 2015 - ProgrammeFriday 4thSeptemberDay 1Venue11.30 onwardsRegistrationGrimmond Foyer1.00 - 3.00Session 1:Panels 1-6Panel 1: Professional women: science AgencyChair:Seminar Room 1Ruth Watts:Sheena Evans:Julie Hipperson:Kathleen Keane:Agents of science: women challenging power Rebel or fellow traveller? The rise of Janet Vaughan in the medical profession’s power structure in 1920-1950 Always a pioneer? Constructing the professional women through veterinary obituaries The feminist contribution to BioethicsPanel 2: Women and the Second World War: private perspectives AgencyChair: Kath HoldenSeminar Room 2Lucy Bland:Elspeth King:Geraldine Roberts-Stone:Defying Racial Prejudice: 2nd World War Relationships between British women and black GIs andthe raising of their offspringPawn Shops and the ‘Never Never’: Poverty on the Home Front in the Second World WarThey Were My Sons - Grief as Resistance in the Second World War Poetry of Vera BaxPanel 3: Female activism in politics: international perspectives ActivismChair: Dawn LyonSeminar Room 3Tamiko Miyatsu: Jennifer Jones:Mark Hurst: Emma Lundin: Women of conscience: Women’s Narratives and the Interracial Efforts of Women in AbolitionismAboriginal women’s agency, activism and organisation in the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales 1956-1972They’re nothing more than students and housewives’: The Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry 1971-1986 Liberation from within: lessons from women’s activists in Sweden and South Africa Panel 4: Women’s agency through association OrganisationChair: Seminar Room 4Sue Anderson-Faithful:Kate Hill:Claire Martin:Helen Kay: Aspects of agency: change and constraint in the activism of Mary Sumner founder of the Anglican Mothers’ Union‘So many ladies present today’: women’s agency in county archaeological societies c. 1850-1890A Matter of Space: Gender, Class, and the Women’s Co-operative GuildChrystal Macmillan and her commitment to work for women's rights through International Committees in the first half of 20th Century Panel 5: Female journalism AgencyChair: Gaynor JohnsonGrimmond Lecture Theatre Kate Mitchell: Catherine Clay: Natalie Bradbury: Evenings Out: Women Journalists as Spectators of Opera and Theatre Performances in Late Nineteenth-Century ItalyAmateurism, Professionalism, and Literary Criticism in the Modern Feminist Magazine, Time and Tide Woman's Outlook magazine: widening women's outlook and creating a community of readersPanel 6: Women in a man’s world AgencyChair:Seminar Room 5Caroline Mogg:CCatherine Bishop:Hannah Dean:‘the most delightful and least costly way of doing good’. Making sense of female paternalistic agency in 19th century rural England.‘World-minded’ Women: The International Federation of Business and Professional WomenThe relationship and interrelationship of power in the context of female entrepreneurs3.00 – 3.30TEAGrimmond Foyer3.30-5.00Plenary Lecture:Professor Mary Evans: 'But We've Always Been Poor: Some Reflections on Women, Poverty and Austerity'Chair: Anne LoganGrimmond Lecture Theatre5.00-6.30Session 2:Panels 7-12Panel 7: Female activism in politics: perspectives from the Indian sub-continent ActivismChair: Anne Logan Seminar Room 1Subhasree Ghosh:Sumita Mukherjee:Gemma Scott:From Agents Of Change To Agents For Change: Women And Self-Emancipation In Colonial India ‘The Agency, Activism and Organisation of Indian Campaigners for the Female Vote in the 1930s’Women's Resistance to India's Political Emergency (1975-1977)Panel 8: Women and the Second World War OrganisationChair: Juliette PattinsonGrimmond Lecture TheatreJo Stanley:Lisa Pine: Maggie Andrews:Admirals and feminists: the Women’s Royal Naval Service in WW2 Female Organisation and Agency in Nazi GermanyThe Nation’s Cinderellas: Women’s Organisations and Wartime EvacuationPanel 9: Women’s sexual agency AgencyChair:Seminar Room 2Hannah Charnock: Jane O’Neill: ‘I think I took the lead actually’: Female agency in first intercourse narratives, 1960-2000‘The girl says no, and the fella tries’: Gender and agency in courtship, sex and marriage, Scotland c. 1960-80 Panel 10: Women, archives and knowledge construction AgencyChair:Seminar Room 3Ali Flint: Kate Dossett: Connie Guberman& Chris Berkowitz:Archivist, cataloguer, historian Women, Gender & Knowledge Construction in U.S. history or Why U.S. history is so often a history of men Oral History and Civic Engagement: Listening as a Radical Practice for Transformational Learning Panel 11: Nineteenth century women: representations and self-representations AgencyChair: Gillian Beattie-SmithSeminar Room 4Michelle O’Connor:Katharine Mutlow:Fae Dussart:Periodical journalism as an assertion of female identity and agency in late Victorian Britain‘Female narratives of work and labour in mid-nineteenth-century Britain: agency, subjectivity andself-representation in the Royal Commission reports and London Labour and the London Poor.’Domestic dialogues: negotiations over ‘servant’ selfhood in Britain 1850 – 1900Panel 12: Women and education Agency Chair: Seminar Room 5Sarah Edwards:Kay Whitehead:Kate James:‘[She] was induced to speak ill of her most brilliant and intellectual pupil’. The Female Student on Trial, 1910-15: the case of Dorothy M. Meads and University College Nottingham Navigating the British education system re Gipsy Hill Training College, 1917-1947 Mary Dawson’s Women: Worth the Investment6.30 -7.30Wine Reception Announcement of WHN Community History PrizeGrimmond FoyerSaturday 5th SeptemberDay 208.30- onwardsRegistration for Saturday delegatesGrimmond Foyer9.00-10.30Session 3:Panels 13-18Panel : 13 Behind the Lines: Mobilization and Activism of American Women in the Great War Activism Chair: Karen Jones Seminar Room 1Keith Gorman: Jennifer Motszko: Kathelene McCarty Smith:“Can Vegetables, Fruit, and the Kaiser, Too!”: Food, Gender Roles, and the American Home Front during World War One In Peace and In War:? Depictions of Women in World War I American Red Cross Posters Working Together for Victory: Shaping College Activism during the Great WarPanel: 14 Women and Agency in Sixteenth-Century England and Scotland AgencyChair: Phil SlavinSeminar Room 2Mariana Brockmann:Rachel Basch:Nicola Clark:Wedded to man and country? The agency of queens regnant in dynastic marriages“In the time of her adversity”: Clerical marriage and bishops’ wives 1549-1559‘Many kyne and few that dothe for me’: Marital strife and agency among the Howard women in 1530s EnglandPanel 15: Contemporary Feminist Activism ActivismChair: Seminar Room 3Priyanka Hutschenreiter :Maria Dominguez:Locating Islamic Feminist Activism: from the collective to the individual Vulnerable resistances: Femen sextremism and embodiment of dissentPanel: 16 Navigating the Airwaves: Women's agency and gendered roles on the early BBC AgencyChair: Maggie Andrews Grimmond Lecture TheatreKate Murphy:Kate Terkanian Anne Logan:The ordinary average listener? Mrs Edna Thorpe and the BBC in the Interwar Years Gendering Jobs at the BBC‘In every way as competent as the male members’: Margery Fry and the BBC c.1940-1957Panel: 17 Agency and Female Activism in Southern Africa 1979-1994 Activism Chair: Barbara BushSeminar Room 4Emily Bridger:Kate Law:Matthew Graham:We are stronger than the men’: Narratives of Agency and Empowerment in the Memories of South Africa’s Female Comrades, 1979-1994"The Price of Liberation”: Operation Clean-Up, Politics and the Policing of Gender Norms in Zimbabwe c.1980-1985 ‘Liberation for all?’: The struggle for women’s rights during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracyPanel: 18 Comparative Perspectives on Citizenship and Political Activism Activism Chair: in the Aftermath of Suffrage and WarFlorence Binard Seminar Room 5Julie Gottlieb:Judith Szapor:Ingrid Sharp:Women's Active Citizenship in Britain in the Aftermath of Suffrage and WarThe Perfect Storm of Citizenship: Right-Wing Women Activists, the Suffrage, and Illiberal Politics in the Aftermath of WWI and Revolutions in HungaryGerman Women in National and International Politics in the Aftermath of War and Suffrage10.30 - 11.00CoffeeGrimmond Foyer11.00 – 1.00Session 4:Panels 19-24Panel : 19 Women in Politics ActivismChair: Seminar Room 1Janet Smith:Jessica Prestidge:Helen Monk & Will Jackson:Fighting patriarchy, power and privilege: Helen Taylor’s work as an elected member of the London School Board, 1876-1885Housewives having a go: Margaret Thatcher, Mary Whitehouse and the morality of the New Right Gendering Pacification: Policing Women and Girls at Anti-Fracking Protests Panel: 20 Women and Art in action AgencyChair:Seminar Room 2Joan Ashworth:Joanna Gardner-Huggett:Sarah Gee:Unfreezing time in the work of Sylvia Pankhurst using animationRe-conceptualizing the Women Artists’ Cooperative: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago (1992-2015) In Their Place: Women’s Offerings Panel: 21 Women, Health and Activism ActivismChair: Seminar Room 3Veronika Najmanová?: Elena Carter:Jesse Olszynko-Gryn:Finola Doyle O’Neill:Birth control movement in the Czech Lands - the movement that did not existMy body, my baby, my choice: opening up the National Childbirth Trust archive to explore 60 years of grassroots women’s activismActivist pregnancy testing in 1970s Britain Women Today- Women of Tomorrow: The role of the RT? Radio 1 programme, Women Today (1979-1984) in stimulating and popularizing public debate on what were hitherto referred to as ‘women’s issues’Panel: 22 Prostitution, feminism and agency AgencyChair: Catherine LeeSeminar Room 4Helen Mathers:Jane Berney:Sonja Dolinsek:Aisling Gallagher:Josephine Butler’s campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts (1869-1883): an early feminist challenge to cultural and institutional power A one woman campaign? Stella Benson and prostitution in Hong Kong in the 1930s Traffic in Women, Slavery, Sex Work. The Transnational Politics of Sexual Labour in the Era of the World Women’s Conferences (1985-1985)Sex work labour rights – feminist activism in the twenty-first century Panel: 23 Women’s Sporting Organisations OrganisationChair: Dion GeogiouSeminar Room 5Sheila Hanlon:Rafaelle Nicholson:Jordan Matthews:Whisperings from Club Land: The formal and informal politics of women’s cycling clubs in 1890s Britain‘My First Love Has Always Been Cricket’: Women's Sport and the Women's Movement in Post-war BritainGetting inside the Corridors of Power: 1970s – 1990s European Political Activism for Women and SportPanel: 24 Female agency and religious change in modern British culture: AgencyChair: Alana Harris In memory of the late Neil ArmstrongGrimmond Lecture TheatreJacquelinedeVries?:Sue Morgan?:Carmen Mangion?:Bonnie Lynch?:Women’s Agency and the Religious Periodical Press in the Interwar Period'Holy Sacrament or Iron Cage? Religion, feminism and new sexual discourses in interwar Britain''by women and for women': changing the structures of religious life, 1950-1970 Keeping the Faith? A Longitudinal Study of Current and Former Women Religious 1.00 – 2.00LunchGrimmond Foyer2.00 -3.30Session 5: Panels 25 - 30 Panel: 25 'New Dawn': Commemorating suffrage activism in Parliament Activism Chair: June PurvisSeminar Room 1Mary Branson Mari Takayanagi }Melanie Unwin'New Dawn': Commemorating suffrage activism in Parliament Panel 26: Margaret Harkness: Autonomy, Authorship and Activism ActivismChair: Lisa RobertsonSeminar Room 2Flore Janssen:Terry H. Elkiss:Deborah Mutch:Sketches of English Common Life: The International Context of Margaret Harkness’s Political Fiction, 1887-1890 A City Girl Down Under: Margaret Harkness, Australian CorrespondentMargaret Harkness, 'Connie': Melodrama and Socialist FictionPanel : 27 Women, Law and Property AgencyChair: Anne LoganSeminar Room 3Hannah Young :Sparky Booker:Nicola Phillips:‘An attached & honest wife should be of as much use as a West Indian Attorney’: Marriage, gender and aristocratic property-ownershipWomen and the law in fifteenth and sixteenth century IrelandCunning in Law Above Any”: The Trials of Lady Theodosia Ivie, 1649-95”Panel : 28 Women and Education: European perspectives AgencyChair:Seminar Room 4 Trudy Schuetz: Letterio Todaro:“I, Josepha Apfel, herewith apply for permission…”: Women as school owners in the Hapsburg monarchy, 1790s-1860s Women Movements and Innovation in Education at the beginning of the Twentieth Century: the Role of the Sections of the 'Unione Femminile Nazionale' in Sicily for the transformation of Italian Pedagogy Panel : 29 Women and emotional Agency: Marriage and divorce AgencyChair: Rosalind CarrGrimmond Lecture TheatreLoreen Giese:Katie Barclay:Pasi Saarim?k:Separating Wives: Female Agency and Marital Cruelty in Early Modern London Emotional Agency amongst the Scottish Lower Orders: Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century Working-class women’s organizations and the question of divorce in Finland in 1906–1930 Panel : 30 Women and the First World War OrganisationChair: Maggie AndrewsSeminar Room 5Katherine Storr :John Black:Elizabeth Kirkland: Women’s Emergency Corps and The Work Of Four Members ‘The Other Nice Girls of Woolwich garrison during the Great War’: The Integration of Women into a traditionally all-male military environment Trans-Atlantic Activism: Lady Julia Drummond at Home in the Metropole, 1914-19193.30TeaGrimmond Foyer 3.30 – 4.30 WHNAGMGrimmond Lecture Theatre 4.45-6.15Plenary Lecture:Professor Pam Cox: ‘Translating Women’s History for Television’Chair: Kate MurphyGrimmond Lecture Theatre7.30 Conference Dinner Conference Dinner at: Café du Soleil, 4-5 Pound LaneCanterburyKent CT1 2BZTel: 01227 479999 Sunday 6thSeptemberDay 39.15-11.15Session 6:Panels 31-36Panel 31: Women and Philanthropy OrganisationChair:Seminar Room 1Jane Rendall:Jackie Collier:Jennifer Hillman:Women, Association and Philanthropy in Edinburgh, 1795-1830 ‘A mere country boarding house’ or a protestant nunnery?: Lady Isabella King and the fashioning of the Ladies Association, 1815-1835. ‘“Have you sold any of your jewels yet?” Women and Charity in seventeenth-century France Panel 32: British Suffrage ActivismChair: June PurvisGrimmond Lecture TheatreLyndsey Jenkins:Alexandra Hughes-Johnson: Claire Eustance:Ali Ronan:‘’Making Socialists’ or Making Suffragettes?’ The Kenney Sisters and the WSPU ‘“How I became a Suffragist”: Rose Lamartine Yates’ journey into suffrage’“A force to be reckoned with”? The changing meanings of feminism in 1930s Britain The Hague, April 1915 and beyond: the view from the provinces. The Manchester branch of the British Women's Committee for the International Congress of Women(BWC) February - October 1915 Panel 33: Feminism and Women's Movements in the Twentieth Century ActivismChair: Lucy BlandSeminar Room 2George Stevenson:Gillian Anderson:Caitríona Beaumont:Maria Di Cenzo:‘The British Women’s Liberation Movement – A (middle-) class struggle?’ Stories of Struggle: Feminisms Resist Neoliberalism Women’s Organisations, Feminism and Voluntary Action: new understandings of the women’s movement in twentieth century Britain Politicizing Everyday Life: Feminism and Social Policy Activism in Inter-War BritainPanel 34: Medieval and Early Modern women’s agency AgencyChair:Seminar Room 3Francesca Battista:Nicole Bertzen:Fiona McCall:Kunhuta Uherská (1244?-1285). Legitimizing the voice of the Queen in Medieval Bohemia'Flanders mare' and 'bumpkin'- the misrepresentation of Anne of Cleves in historiographyBecoming masculine: women as agents or victims in loyalist accounts of the English Civil WarPanel 35: Women’s writing, self-narration and textual agency AgencyChair: Robin JoyceSeminar Room 4Aoife O’Leary McNeice:Gillian Beattie-Smith:The Politics of Aesthetics in the Travel Narratives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Helen Maria Williams Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus: the authority of an authorPanel 36: Constructing identity: gender, culture and myth AgencyChair: Seminar Room 5Lucia Chiappetta Cajola/ Nicoletta Brancaleoni:George Souvlis :Karen Jones:I’m female, I’m male. An educational approach to include the gender differencesProducing mothers for the Greek nation: Women's representations during the Metaxas dictatorshipLady Wildcat of the Plains: Calamity Jane and the Invention of a Frontier Heroine11.15Coffee11.45-1.15Plenary Lecture:Professor Clare Midgley: ‘Feminism, religion and empire after the transnational turn’ Chair: Emily ManktelowGrimmond Lecture Theatre 1.15-2.15 LunchFollowed by an optional afternoon visit to Smallhythe Place, home of celebrated actress, Ellen Terry ................
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