Some intriguing looking conferences (which I doubt I shall be managing to attend)

Yorkshire Women’s History Network inaugural one-day conference ‘Women on Others/Women as Others’ on Saturday 25^th June 2011 at Leeds Trinity University College.

Our keynote address will be by Professor Alison Oram (Leeds Met), and the schedule for the day is as follows:

8:45 Registration

9:15 Welcome

9:30 Keynote: Prof Alison Oram

10:30 Tea/Coffee break

11:30 Strand A: The Other at the fin-de-siècle

Ann Heilmann, (University of Hull), ‘The New Woman in China’

Grainne Goodwin, (Leeds Metropolitan University), ‘The othering of women writers professional sociability at the fin-de-siècle through the experiences of Flora Annie Steel’

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Meeting to Discuss the formation of the Yorks WHN

14:00 Strand B: Other languages, Other selves

Alison Torn, (LTUC), ‘Women & Madness: pre-Enlightenment and post-enlightenment examples of resisting and using the other

Baptiste Moniez, (Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘Other s among Others: British Single Missionary Women and the Cultural ‘Other’’

Mehdi Damali Amiri, (Bualisina University, Hamedan, Iran), ‘Women and their Hidden Idenity’

15:00 Tea/Coffee Break

15:30 Strand C:

Susan Anderson and Di Drummond, (LTUC), ‘Constructing and Reconstructing ‘The Other’: Changing Representations of Indian Women in British Imperial Discourses of the Sixteenth and Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’

16:30 Close

Full conference registration, inclusive of lunch	£25
Student/unwaged concession conference registration, inclusive of lunch	£15

For further details and registration forms please contact Julie Wadsworth

j.wadsworth@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Midwifery in Scotland: Past and Present

2 June 2011

An Event to Celebrate the Launch of

Midwifery in Scotland: A History

by

Lindsay Reid

Speakers:

Ruth Honeybone, LHSA Paper Conservator

‘Midwifery Records in Lothian Health Services Archive’

Debbie Nicholson, University of West of Scotland,

‘Womb with a View’: Transforming ultrasound into a consumer technology

Book Discussants:

Cathy Warwick, General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives

Christine Hallett, University of Manchester

Iain Hutchison, University of Glasgow

From: 1.30-4.30

In: G3-4, School of Health in Social Science

The University of Edinburgh

Medical School

Teviot Place

Edinburgh EH8 9AG

If you haven’t already, please book by sending £10 to Margaret Lynch, De Partu Treasurer, University of Manchester, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

SPORT AND GENDER WORKSHOP

Hosted by the International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire

&

The British Society of Sports History

Friday 10

th June, 2011

Time Location: Greenbank Building, University of Central Lancashire

9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Refreshments

10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1: Women and Sport: Prejudice and Progress

Speakers:

Catherine Budd (De Montfort University)

"Entirely out of Their Sphere, and Calculated to Unsex Them in More Ways

than One!" Women and Sport in Middlesbrough, c.1880-1914

Carlos Caracciolio (National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy):

Bicycles and Women (without Forgetting Men): Notes for an Italian History

Michelle Sikes (University of Oxford):

Absence, Emergence, Permanence: Conceptualising Social Change through the

Prism of Women's Running in Kenya

11:30 – 12:00 Break

12:00 – 1:30 Panel 2: Physical Culture, Gender and the Body

Speakers:

Sue Ash (Oxford Brookes University):

'Fit' Women: Aesthetic Movement or Eugenic Exercise in Early Twentieth

Century Britain?

Eilidh Macrae (University of Glasgow):

Conflicts of Fitness and Femininity: The Negotiation of Appropriate

Female Space in the 1937 Scottish Fitness Campaign

Veronique Czaka (University of Geneva/University of Lausanne):

Constructing Gender through Gymnastics at School: Discourse and Practice in

West Switzerland, 1860-1920

1:30 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 4:00 Panel 3: 'Troubled' Masculinities and 'Subversive' Femininities

Speakers:

Sergio Lussana (University of Warwick)

'The Great Wrestler Can Win Laurels': Enslaved Fighting Contests and

Expressions of Masculinity in the Antebellum Southern United States

Dr Jean Williams (De Montfort University)

Speaking Softly: Roberta Cowell's Autobiography, Gender and Identity

Dr Stacey Pope (University of Bedfordshire )

'White Shoes to a Football Match!': Female Experiences of Football's 'Golden

Age' in England

4.00 – 4:30 Break

4:30 – 5:30 Round Table: Sport and Gender: Future Directions

Speakers:

Dr Carol Osborne (University of Cumbria)

Dr Fiona Skillen (University of Central Lancashire)

Dr Jean Williams (De Montfort University)
Dr Joyce Kay (University of Stirling)

Dr Fiona Skillen, FSkillen@UClan.ac.uk
International Football Institute, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors Room 152,

Greenbank Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE. Closing Date 20th May 2011.