Women's History Network
Starts:
7 September 2012
Ends:
9 September 2012
21st Conference of the Women's History Network
Women, State and Nation: Creating Gendered Identities
The Women’s History Network is open to anyone with a passion for researching, writing, reading and sharing women’s history. Our annual international conference will this year focus on the relationship between women and the state. The conference will explore the processes of nation-building and consider the extent to which national identities have been gendered. We will examine women as citizens, women’s interaction and relationships with the state and the female or gendered imagining of the nation. The themes of the conference are broad to encourage as wider a discussion as possible from a range of historical perspectives. Papers will consider the role of women and the impact of gender across all time-spans, regions and nations.
Plenary speakers:
Dr Padma Anagol (Cardiff Univeristy), " In the interest of the nation ": Women's role and participation in the birth of the Hindu Right in colonial India.
Professor Mineke Bosch (University of Groninegn), National Suffrage Spectacle and Transnational Transfer: A Comparison of British and Dutch Suffrage Activism
Professor Elsa Barkley-Brown (University of Maryland)
The conference is being organised through the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network.
Registration, Accommodation and Travel
PLEASE REGISTER NOW FOR AN EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT Registration forms, including information about the conference dinner and bursaries, can be found under Related Resources.
The conference will take place in the Humanities Building at Cardiff University. Cardiff is the capital of Wales and is a vibrant and exciting city to visit. It has an international airport and good links to other major British cities. The city has a range of accommodation to suit all budgets and needs. A guide can be found on the link on the right of this page.
For a discount rate and to book accommodation at the Ibis hotel (the main conference hotel) please use the following website https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/CDFWHNC2012
Further information
For further details about
The conference - please email WHNconference@cardiff.ac.uk
The Women’s History Network http://www.womenshistorynetwork.org/index.html
The West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/swhisnet/swhisnet.htm
Other information
Open To: Public