The Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series, organised by the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) and the Institute of Historical Research, will take place periodically, on Tuesday's at 17:15 - 18:30. Find more information here.
Convenors: Dr Imaobong Umoren (LSE), Dr Sinead McEneaney (Open University), Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr Ruth Beecher (Birkbeck, University of London).
Seminar series program:
Space Occupied: Women Poet-Editors and the Mimeograph Revolution in 1960s New York
Speaker: Rona Cran (University of Birmingham)
The Many Journeys of Teresa Mina: 'Slave-Moving', 'Mobility,' and Gender in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Speaker: Camillia Cowling (University of Warwick)
'Superman believes that a wife's place is in the home!': Gender and the Superhero Narrative
Speaker: Michael Goodrum (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Freedom in degrees; an epic journey of slavery, freedom, marriage, divorce, and brujeria
Speaker: Chloe Ireton (University College London)
Equality, rights, and work: Women in Chicago's labour movement
Speaker: Ruth Percy (University of Oxford)
Gerda Lerner’s Popular Feminist Histories
Speaker: Nick Witham (University College London)