The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks and Networking 1800-2000
The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks and Networking 1800-2000 is the theme for a one day graduate and early career workshop to be held in May 2016 followed by a two-day international conference in September 2016. Both events are targeted at graduate students and early career scholars from the humanities and social sciences. The workshop and conference seek to explore how networks have shaped women's equality since 1800. A variety of networks will be explored including but not limited to
- Literary
- Religious
- Political
- Suffrage
- Feminist
- Nationalist
- Academic
- Scientific and Medical
These events are sponsored by Women in the Humanities and the British Academy.
Image of National Women's Party demonstration in front of the White House in 1918. Copyright Everett Historical, courtesy of Shutterstock
Contact:
Imaobong Umoren
imaobong.umoren@pmb.ox.ac.uk
The Global Pursuit of Equality (September 2016)
A workshop was held to include 9 papers.
- Chair: Ruth Percy
- Teja Varma Pusapati (University of Oxford) ‘Lessons in Abolitionism from the “Other Side of the Water”: Harriet Martineau’s Transatlantic Correspondence for New York’s National Anti-Slavery Standard’
- Katie Myerscough (University of Manchester) ‘Women of the Central West End: The Creation and Curtailment of a Radical Female Dominion in St. Louis, 1900 – 1925’
- Nick Grant (University of East Anglia) ‘The National Council of Negro Women and South Africa: Black Internationalism, Motherhood, and the Cold War’
- Chair: Imaobong Umoren
- Richard Williams (University of Oxford) ‘Colonial Courtesans: women and Urdu poetry networks in nineteenth-century India’
- Margarita Vaysman (University of Oxford) Nikolai Nekrasov’s Girl Friday, or the Pitfalls of Being a Woman Writer in a Nineteenth-Century Publishing Network
- Kerrie Thornhill (University of Oxford) ‘Trans-Atlantic intersectionality before there was a name for it: the role of racialised women as subjects, objects, and subalterns of 19th century colonisation in West Africa’
- Chair: Senia Paseta
- Peter Werninck (University of Glasgow) ‘Women’s networks and the decline of the church in postwar Britain and America’
- Kerstin Brolsma (University of Oxford), ‘Li Xiaojiang, Gao Xiaoxian, and their Engagement with Transnational Western Feminism’
- Charlie Jeffries (University of Cambridge), ‘Sex, Punk, and Zines in the American Riot Grrrl Network’
The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks, and Networking 1800-2000 2 day conference (September 2016)
- Devaki Jain, economist and writer
- Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University.
