Date: Thursday 24 March 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Mary Evans
Chair: Professor Julia Black

Most people know that Beatrice Webb played an important part in the establishment and the purpose of LSE. But in the later years of LSE's history there were many other women who were significant in its history and it is these women who are one of the concerns of this lecture. A second question is that of how the 'woman question' was often absent from the agendas of LSE, an issue that has multiple implications in terms of the ways in which institutions define themselves and their staff.

Mary Evans is LSE Centennial Professor at the Gender Institute. Her work is interdisciplinary and crosses boundaries between the social sciences and humanities. Her research interests include narrative fiction, focusing on themes of gender and class and the impact of gender on the academy.

Julia Black is currently Pro Director for Research at LSE and Chair of the Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team. She joined the Law Department in 1994. She completed her first degree in Jurisprudence and her DPhil at Oxford University. Her primary research interest is regulation.

LSE’s Gender Institute (@LSEGenderTweet) is the largest gender studies centre in Europe. With a global perspective, the Gender Institute’s research and teaching intersects with other categories of analysis such as race, ethnicity, class and sexuality; because gender relations work in all spheres of life, interdisciplinarity is key to our approach.

LSE Women: making history is a celebration of #LSEwomen past, present and future, to mark Women’s History Month 2016. It is led by LSE Communications (@LSEnews) in collaboration with the LSE community.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEwomen

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