To celebrate Women’s History Month and the arrival of the Women’s Library at the School, LSE Equality and Diversity, Gender Institute and Archives have organised a panel discussion and archives exhibition on ‘Working with the past’.
What’s the experience and significance of ‘working with the past’? What do women’s archives offer? And what do researchers discover in the process?
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Tuesday 12 March 2013
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Discussion 5-7pm followed by drinks reception and archives exhibition
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Open to all LSE staff and students. Limited places – please reserve a ticket www.workingwiththepast.eventbrite.co.uk|.
Panellists
Barbara Bush
Professor Bush is Emeritus Professor of History at Sheffield Hallam University and is a member of the editorial board of Women's History Review. She has published widely in the area of Caribbean slavery and more recently, race, gender and empire. She has also had considerable experience as academic consultant for documentaries on race and slavery for Channel 4, BBC2 and Radio 4.
Kate Murphy
Dr Murphy has been involved with women's history for more than twenty five years. As Senior Producer on BBC Woman's Hour, she produced and promoted women's history at every opportunity; her PhD thesis was on the history of women who worked in the BBC in the 1920s and 1930s, and she guest-curated the current exhibition at The Women's Library ' The Long March to Equality'. She is now a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University.
Sally Alexander
Professor Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths University of London. She is a founding editor of History Workshop Journal. She has written extensively on the history of political and social movements, including feminism, women's lives, and the history of London.
Chaird by Mary Evans
Professor Evans is LSE Centennial Professor based at the Gender Institute. She has written on various aspects of gender and women’s studies and many of those publications have crossed disciplinary lines between the social sciences and the humanities. She was a founding editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies