CGS conferences & events
Centre for Gender Studies, University of Winchester
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?