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4 September

​9:00-12:00.

5 September

​9:00-12:00

 

​12:15-15:00

 

15:30 - 18:15

 

​18:30 - 20:00

 

​18:30 - 20:00

 

15:30 - 18:15

 

​12:15-15:00

 

SCHEDULE (DRAFT-subject to change)

9-10 am                                     Registration and Coffee                 Link Gallery

 

10-11 am                    Welcome and Keynote Address                 West Downs 2

Gina Luria Walker              

Mary Hays Considers the King's Library

 

11am-12pm          SESSION ONE

 

PANEL 1A:           Stereotypes of Women in Italy                                 

Chair: Christina Welch

Francesco Buscemi

EVENTUALLY CHEF! Italian Women and their Ran-Up to Professional Cooking: 1950 to the Present

Valentina Guerrini

Gender and science. Between stereotypes and promotion of capabilities

 

PANEL 1B:            Women & Medieval/Early Modern Literature

Chair: Ellie Woodacre

Kitamura Sae

Promoting Pleasure for the Commonwealth: Margaret Cavendish’s Introduction to Shakespeare

Stephanie Grace Petinos

Women and the Search for Holiness in Secular Literature: Eliduc

 

PANEL 1C:       Reconstructing Women’s Lives through archaeological finds

Chair: Kate Weikert

Alexie Kendell

Interpreting gender in medieval animal bone assemblages

Rose Drew

Women and Non-adults aboard Warships in the 16th and 17th Centuries

 

 

12-1                          LUNCH                         West Downs 1

 

1-2:30                     SESSION TWO

 

PANEL 2A:           Understanding Medieval Women in Legal, Religious and Marital contexts

Chair: Ellie Woodacre

Daniela Fruscione

Migration society and gender: the evidence of Kentish legal sources (7th century)

Kirsty Day & Kathryn Maude

Breaking down enclosures: a collaborative approach to the cloistering of nuns in medieval scholarship

Rebecca Holdorph

Statesman, Lecher, Vowess, Whore: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood in Late Medieval England, 1295-1403

 

 

PANEL 2B:            Crossing Boundaries & Challenging Gender Roles

Chair: Christina Welch

Sarah Schäfer-Althaus

Moving into the Bearded Territory of Men– Bearded Women in Medieval Culture and Beyond

David A. Powell

Queer Characters in Service to the Republic: The Case of George Sand’s L’Uscoque

Christina Welch

Victorian Voyeurism; Othered Women, Queer Sex and ‘Social Darwinism’

 

PANEL 2C:           Sexual Politics: Narratives of the Public Good

Chair: Charlotte Purkiss

Holly Gastineau-Grimes

Care and Migration: Public Good or Bad?

Mary Ellen Lennon

Men Blush, Women Bleed: Feminist Debates and the Anti-pornography Civil Rights Ordinances

Amber Nelson

The Politics of HPV Vaccine Policies: Degendering Sexual Health in Society?

 

2:30-3pm               COFFEE

 

3:30-5pm               SESSION THREE

 

ROUNDTABLE

Gender Studies & Pedagogy

 

5pm-6:30pm                Performance/Wine Reception       Link Gallery

Kass Boucher                Poetry Recitation

Rebecca Nice               Dance Performance

 

6:30pm                           Conference Dinner

9-9:30am               Registration and Coffee

 

9:30-11am            SESSION FOUR

 

PANEL 4A:           Celebrated Figures in the Middle Ages

Chair: Trish Skinner

Joanna Arman

England’s Joan of Arc? Margaret of Anjou and female militancy during the Wars of the Roses

Alison Creber

Gender and authority in Benzo of Alba’s depiction of Adelaide of Turin

Karl Alvestad

St Olaf’s four miracles involving women

 

PANEL 4B:            Women in the 19th & 20th century

Chair: Christina Welch

Max Stafford

Striking Women: Gender and gender roles during the 1968 Dagenham Ford machinists’ strike, as portrayed by the 2010 film Made in Dagenham

Katherine Rossy

Forgotten Agents, Forgotten Zone: German Women under French Occupation in Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949

Lee Chambers

Boston's Sears Sisters: A Study in 19th Century Emotional History

 

11-11:30am         COFFEE

 

11:30-1pm            SESSION FIVE

 

PANEL 5A:           Sources for the Lives of Women in Mary Hays’ Female Biography

Chair: Ellie Woodacre

María Jesús Lorenzo Modia

Issues of Gender, Race, Nation and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain as Depicted in Mary Hays’s Female Biography

Begoña Lasa Álvarez

Two Representatives of Seventeenth-Century Noble Women in Mary Hays’s Female Biography

Séverine Genieys-Kirk

Ann Thicknesse’s translation of Joseph La Porte’s Histoire Littéraire des femmes françoises (1769) as a source for Mary Hays’s Female biography: a female legacy of editorial subversion?

 

PANEL 5B:           Critics and Creators of Art and Drama

Chair: Christina Welch

Lucy Elkerton

“Gender Underfoot”: Mosaics of Roman Spain as Evidence of a Gendered Society

Karolina Rosiejka

About Georgia O'Keeffe.  Rethinking Artist's Portrait Written by Paul Rosenfeld in ‘The Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns’

Charlotte Purkiss

Cross-dressed critics: the significance of gendered expressions of self in writings on performance from the Early Modernist context

 

1-2pm                      LUNCH

 

2-3:30                     SESSION SIX

 

PANEL 6A:            Women and the World Wars (ADOBE SESSION)

Chair: Christina Welch

Chanita Goodblatt

From Cambridge to Camiers:  Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson

Sandra J. Peacock

Hosea and Miss Julian:  Eliza M. Butler’s Daylight in a Dream as World War I Literature

 

PANEL 6B:           Gender Studies, Historiography and Developing Understanding

Chair: Ellie Woodacre

Trish Skinner

From Complicating Categories to Histories on the Edge: re-inventing the wheel?

Abigail Tazzyman and Bridget Lockyer

‘They’re not on it because they didn’t do anything important’: Women’s history, the curriculum and student perceptions

René Hirsch

Procreative Perceptions, Gender Relationships and Social Constructs

 

3:30-4pm               COFFEE

 

4-5pm             SESSION SEVEN

 

PANEL 7A:           Persecution & Gender in the Early Modern period

Chair: Ellie Woodacre

Rosalind Johnson

Gender differences in late seventeenth century religious prosecutions

Michelle Webb

“Mr Rumbal, a one-eyed man”: Facial Disfigurement and Male Identity in Early Modern England

 

PANEL 7B:            Women in Empire

Chair: Christina Welch

Khekali Zhimo

'‘Breaking Custom’: British Colonial Courts in Naga Hills and the Process of Negotiating Privileges

Katherine Massam

Gender, Race and Work in a Mission Town (New Norcia Western Australia)

 

PANEL 7C:           Women’s role in the Lutheran church of Norway: from witch hunt and ethnic division to Christian feminism

Chair: Karl Alvestad

Linda Helen Haukland

Traces of Haugean Feminism

Rolf Inge Larsen

The lilies of the field. Henriette Gislesen and the female ideal – adornment of the home or participant citizen?

 

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