We are pleased to promote an upcoming in-person event being organised by one of our Postgraduate Representatives, Susan Birch.
The conference, titled ‘Gender and Agency’ is available to attend for free by any interested students at the University of Winchester on Tuesday 24th of June at 12pm-5pm.
To register for the event, click here: https://forms.office.com/e/RB0Zuu3bGH
The deadline for registering is Tuesday 17th of June at midnight.
Provisional timetable
12-12.30 Networking lunch (refreshments provided but please bring lunch with you)
12.30- 12.50 Introduction by Dr Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester) and Susan Birch (University of Winchester)
12.50– 1.40 Susan Birch on Wellcome placement and PhD research
‘Family Planning and Motherhood: Power and Resistance’.
Julia Nurse (Wellcome) on Wellcome placement and work on gender and agency
1.40- 2.05 Lucy Barrett (University of Winchester) on teaching
‘An Exploration of the Presence of Women on the Primary History National Curriculum’.
2.05- 2.25 Comfort break
2.25- 3.15 Libraries and Choirs (creative agency)
2.25- 2.45 Jose Lopez Blanco (University of Winchester) on libraries
‘Curation as Discovery: How Digitisation of the Sybil Campbell Collection has Uncovered Female Networks in the 1920s’.
2.45- 3.05 Peter Underwood on the military wives choir (Bath Spa University)
‘Contradictions in Identity: Representation and Agency in the Military Wives Choirs’.
3.15- 3.25 comfort break
3.25- 4.15 Heritage and Universities (Medieval and Early Modern)
3.25- 3.45 Elena Rossi (University of Oxford) on university education
‘A Peep behind the Curtain: Female Actors in Professorial Dynasties in the University Towns of Bologna and Padua’.
3.45- 4.05 Amy Saunders (University of Winchester) on heritage
‘Reconstructing Royal Women’s Artistic Patronage in Heritage Sites’.
4.15- 4.35 Students chart thoughts on paper (wall chart).
4.35-5 Discussion and finish.