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For women in London it's also worth checking out this list hosted by Women in London.
2012
January 2012
5 January - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: A 101 feminist discussion: introducing and debating the basic theory and history of feminism and how anarcha feminism relates.
Researchers: Anna Lucine and Rhiannon
Readings: Ruth Lister: Being Feminist; Peggy Kornegger Anarchism: The feminist connection
Sorry that the articles picked are so long - if possible just read as much/little as you comfortably can!
5 January - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
11 January - London Feminist Network's January Feminar: Lynne Harne on Violent Fathering and the Risks to Children - Central London (WC1) - 7.00pm-8.30pm
The venue is fully accessible (ground floor with ramp, no steps) Refreshments will be available. Donations towards venue costs most welcome. LFN Feminars are women-only.
Please RSVP to jennifer.milligan@btinternet.com for venue details and to confirm your attendance.
LFN website listing: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/feminar-lynne-harne
Events Editor's note: From correspondence with a member of LFN feminars coordinating group, it is confirmed that LFN feminars are open to all self-identified women.
12 January - Short course: Is Feminism the same as choice and individuality? - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm (90 mins) - £48/£40 concessions
This short course of evening lectures explores how and why Feminism has been co-opted by 'malestream' media and re-defined as women?s individual choices. Course tutor Jennifer Drew provides an overview of the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement and whether this movement's aims are as relevant today as they were in the 1960s and 70s. What lessons can we learn from The Women's Liberation Movement and Women's History?
16 January - Work to End Female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa - Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre, 18-25 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3EA - 6pm to 9pm - Free admission
Daughters of Eve is thrilled to present an evening with three amazing African women who between them have been working to eradicate Female genital mutilation (FGM) and safeguard the Human rights of women and girls in Africa and the Diaspora for over half a century.
Amina M Warsame from NAGAAD Network, Efua Dorkenoo from Equality Now and Naana Otoo-Oyortey from Forward, will provide first hand knowledge and insights into the complex social, religious, cultural and economic issues which underpin the on-going practice of female genital mutilation in Africa, and how African women on the ground are now raising up and fighting back .The speakers will highlight the stories of brave African girls and women who everyday with little more than fierce determination and deep love for their communities, are leading the path against all odds and standing up against FGM.
After a 15-20 min presentation by each speaker, the floor will open to the audience to participate in an open discussion.
17 January - Women on Britain's Railways, 1830-1914 - Kew Public Library, 106 North Road, Kew, TW9 4HJ - 6.30pm - admission £1
David Turner, PhD student with the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History, York, will talk on female workers on Britain's Railways, 1830-1914, looking at their status', lives and employment within the industry.
If people want to book a place, as spaces are limited, they can call the library on 020 8734 3352 (open Tues: 10-1, 2-6, Wed 2-6, Fri 2-6, Sat 10-1, 2-5) or email kew.library@richmond.gov.uk.
17 January - Porn: A tool for liberation or oppression? - A Women's Society and For'em Event, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS - 7pm
Can the production of pornography be used as a tool for female liberation? Or does it bind us to passive stereotypes? The role and impact of the porn industry is currently an important debate both within and outside feminist circles. Both women and men are exposed to over-sexualised images everyday and it is difficult to escape the impact that the porn industry is having on our society. We want to ask whether it can be used as a way to reclaim the female body and sexuality or if it indeed causes more damage to the aims of gender equality. Join us on the 17th January at SOAS, listen to those involved in this debate and add your own voice. Hope to see you there.
Further details at the Feminists Against Censorship website: link here
18 January - Faith, Feminism, and LGBTQ women - is anyone listening? - The Conference Room (Floor 1), YMCA, Indian Student Hostel, 41 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6AQ - 7pm
A public meeting to discuss the place of LBTQ women of faith in current campaigning against faith based homophobia and transphobia and in contemporary feminist debate. We will be discussing how the demands for equality of LBTQ women of faith challenge directly the orthodoxies of the leadership of the mainstream religions and how this challenge goes beyond identity politics. We will also discuss where issues of faith and sexuality/gender identity sit on the current feminist agenda.
Contributors at the meeting will include Naomi Phillips from The British Humanist Association, Chitra Nagarajan from Southall Black Sisters/Go Feminist!, Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry from BKY/Liberal Judaism, Christina Beardsley from Sibyls & Changing Attitude & Tamsila Taquir from The Safra Project.
Everyone who identifies as female is welcome at our event.
The Cutting Edge Consortium is an alliance of religious and secular organisations committed to the elimination of faith based homophobia and transphobia. We are keen to encourage more discussion and debate on this issue focused on women's concerns and feminist campaigning. For more information about us, see www.cuttingedgeconsortium.co.uk
19 January - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Feminism and the Music Industry.
Researcher: Caroline
19 January - Short course: Is Feminism the same as choice and individuality? - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm (90 mins) - £48/£40 concessions
This short course of evening lectures explores how and why Feminism has been co-opted by 'malestream' media and re-defined as women?s individual choices. Course tutor Jennifer Drew provides an overview of the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement and whether this movement's aims are as relevant today as they were in the 1960s and 70s. What lessons can we learn from The Women's Liberation Movement and Women's History?
24 January - Global Health Lab: What has feminism done for global health? - John Snow Lecture Theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT - 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm
Speaker(s): Andrea Cornwall, University of Sussex, Marsha Rosengarten, Goldsmiths, Cathy Zimmerman, LSHTM
Chair(s): Martin McKee, LSHTM, Richard Horton, The Lancet
Women's empowerment has long been recognised as key to success in achieving better population health outcomes. This has been acknowledged by international actors embracing 'gender mainstreaming' in all their policies - putting women's education and women's health at the centre of their development strategies. However, most actors take a more 'rights-based' approach to gender mainstreaming rather than embracing an explicitly feminist agenda to challenge the patriarchal status quo. This session draws speakers from across the social sciences and public health to ask the question: what has feminism done for global health?
Admission: Free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Further information including location map and directions here
26 January - Short course: Is Feminism the same as choice and individuality? - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm (90 mins) - £48/£40 concessions
This short course of evening lectures explores how and why Feminism has been co-opted by 'malestream' media and re-defined as women?s individual choices. Course tutor Jennifer Drew provides an overview of the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement and whether this movement's aims are as relevant today as they were in the 1960s and 70s. What lessons can we learn from The Women's Liberation Movement and Women's History?
28 January - Study day: Opening the Cage Door - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 10.30am to 4.30pm - £16/£14 concessions
This day will look at some of the most prominent strikes of the 19th & 20th century when many working women were forced to protest against low wages and poor working conditions. From the Cradley Heath chain makers of the Black Country, and the 1888 Bryant and May match girls' strike, to the Ford machinists strike in 1968 and the Grunwick strike of the seventies. Join historians, union members, and those who took part in protests to hear about the legacy of these iconic events that contributed to change for women?s working conditions. With contributions from Louise Raw, author and historian, Anitha Sundari, University of Lincoln, Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds, trade unionist Viv MacKay, and curator of 'All Work and Low Pay', Clare Rose.
28 January - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 12pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
30 January - Men's Feminist Book Group - The Green Bar, 4th floor Royal Festival Hall, London - 7pm to 9pm - Free admission, open to all
This meeting, our first for 2012, is inspired by Sian Norris's new anthology, The Light Bulb Moment, which "brings together writers, academics and grass roots activists as they share why they identify as feminists". Come to talk about the book and/or share your own story with other pro-feminists.
Register your interest on Facebook, or just turn up and say hello.
February 2012
February is LGBT History Month
See website for details of events, etc: lgbthistorymonth.org.uk
2 February - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Socialism, Anarchism & Feminism.
Researcher: Manijeh
2 February - Short course: Is Feminism the same as choice and individuality? - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm (90 mins) - £48/£40 concessions
This short course of evening lectures explores how and why Feminism has been co-opted by 'malestream' media and re-defined as women?s individual choices. Course tutor Jennifer Drew provides an overview of the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement and whether this movement's aims are as relevant today as they were in the 1960s and 70s. What lessons can we learn from The Women's Liberation Movement and Women's History?
4 February - A new Conference about Feminism, in London: Go Feminist! - Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Speakers, Workshops, Performers and more to be announced
Go Feminist is the new UK conference about Feminism. Our aim? To inspire feminist activism through providing a space for women to meet, discuss the issues they face, and share their ideas for creating change.
The Go Feminist committee is currently working on the conference programme and will let you know as speakers are confirmed. Check the website for regular updates, or follow us on facebook and twitter.
4 February - Eleanor Rathbone - the polite revolutionary - Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX - 2pm to 4pm - Free admission
To mark LGBT History Month.
Talk by Clare Debenham on Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of family allowances.
Light refreshments will be available.
9 February - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
9 February - Friends from the Vera Holme Archive: Edith Craig and Evelina Haverfield - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 7pm - £8/£6 concessions
Find out about two of the women who had strong ties with leading suffragette Vera Holme. Edith Craig was the illegitimate daughter of actress Ellen Terry. She disliked writing, unlike her mother, but realised that she too had a story to tell and dictated her reminiscences to her friend Vera Holme. Vera wrote them down in a notebook, recovered by Ann Rachlin, whose book 'Edy Was A Lady' reveals a fascinating insight into Craig's life. Sandy Wilson presents highlights of her research on Evelina Haverfield, a member of the National Union of Suffrage Societies, who took part in many demonstrations and spent a short time in Holloway prison. Evelina was married twice but later entered a relationship with Vera 'Jack' Holme.
10 February - Gendered Intelligence Film Night Fundraiser - Central School of Speech & Drama, 62-64 Eton Avenue, London, NW3 3HY - 6.30 to 8.30pm - Tickets £6/£4
Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation is the story of six individuals and their journey through the social, religious and political landscapes of a society that struggles to understand or allow for gender variations. This documentary includes provocative interviews with professionals and outreach members who are active in this community to help shed light on a very controversial matter. This film breaks through the gender stereotypes and historical gender ideologies to liberate our bodies, minds and spirits from our own social Gender Dysphoria. Although it is based in Minnesota, the subject matter has no borders. The subject of gender is a taboo topic in many societies, yet fundamental to every aspect of all of our lives. Forget everything you think you know about gender and get ready to experience a GENDERF*KATION!
The screening will be followed by a skype discussion with the director and producer based in Minneapolis.
Click here to reserve a ticket
Tickets £6/£4 - Money generated through ticket sales will go 50% towards the film makers and 50% towards our youth and volunteers' programme
11 February - Cachín Cachán Cachunga! Queer & Trans Cabaret - Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place - 7:00pm to 10:30pm - £3/£2
Featuring Performances by: Jacqueline Applebee, Dr. Carmilla, Nathan Gale, Glasgow Glam Bangers, CN Lester, Lily & Yamil, and Robert Softley
Short Film by Ania Urbanowska
DJ Stylings by Miss Leggy Pee
Hosted by Zorras
Fully wheelchair accessible. Films are subtitled. BSL interpretation provided.
More info: http://www.blissfultimes.ca/cachin.htm
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/340315782645614/Sponsored by Scottish Transgender Alliance
13 to 15 February - Talking Portraits: Historical Actresses Alive - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 12.30 to 4.30pm
Meet actresses of the eighteenth century, as stars from the portrait collection spend a day in the limelight!
V.I.P access lets you meet the celebrities in costume (thanks to theatre company, ShadyJane) and discover what life was really like for women on the stage.
Refreshments will be available and lots to see.
Suitable for all, particularly families.
Tickets: Adults £6; Child £4; Family £20.
(Pre-paid: Adults £5; Child £3; Family £15. a family ticket covers 2 adults and up to 3 children) Under fives free.16 February - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Media Representation and Socialisation.
Researcher: Rachael
16 February - Evening Lecture with Professor Gill Perry: The First Actresses - 'Portraiture and the 'Feminine Face' of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Culture' - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 6.30pm Drinks Reception/7.00pm Talk - £10 (Students & Friends, £7.50)
This lecture explores the role of portraiture in the construction of early celebrity culture, with reference to the recent exhibition 'The First Actresses' at the National Portrait Gallery.
It examines the relationship between the worlds of art and theatre, and the idea that celebrity culture could be seen to have a 'feminine face'.
18 February - Guided walk: Battling Belles of Bow - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 11am (120 mins) - £10
Discover women's history on the move with Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky.
This walking tour centres on Bow and follows in the footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst. She chose east London as the starting point for her campaign for women's suffrage; and seeing the plight of working women, she also established a creche, restaurant and model toy factory in the area. See highlights along the route where supporters of the Suffragette movement worked including the famous Bryant & May match factory, site of the match girls? strike of 1888.
25 February - Zorras' Gender Diversity Arts Workshop & Performance Opportunity for Trans People & Allies - Oasis Youth Centre, Newall Terrace, Dumfries - 2 to 9pm (includes dinner)
Workshop 2-6pm
Performance 7-9pmThe performance is open to the public.
Workshop is free & taught by Zorras
Evening Performance £3/2 featuring Jo Clifford, CN Lester, Ariel Silvera, Zorras + those workshop participants who wish to perform
To sign up for the workshop, you can register online at www.stadumfries.eventbrite.co.uk or email lynne@equality-network.org or phone Lynne at the Equality Network office on 0131 467 6039.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/305868259454629/
Reasonable travel & childcare costs will be covered with advance notice.
Sponsored by Scottish Transgender Alliance.
The Oasis Youth Centre is fully accessible.
25 February - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
26 February - Clarion Cycling Club and family cycle rides from Bolton and Stockport - jointly organised by the People's History Museum and the Working Class Movement Library
Enjoy guided family cycle rides from Bolton and Stockport, both arriving at the People's History Museum, where we will then welcome the Clarion Cycling Club (CCC), arriving on their penny farthings and vintage cycles. Take the opportunity to speak to riders and see their cycles up close. Explore the museum displays of Clarion material from our collections, followed at noon by a guided family cycle ride with the CCC riders to the Working Class Movement Library where cyclists will be treated to a Clarion tea!
March 2012
1 March - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Cultural Relativism and Legislation (with a focus on honour killings).
Researcher: Anna
1 March - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
1 March - London Lecture: Professor Kathryn King talks about 'The Other Eliza Haywood' - University of Notre Dame's London centre, 1 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG - 7.00pm
The lecture is free, however pre-registration is required. Please email or call Chawton House Library with your details.
7 March - Evening Talk with Sandy Lerner, writing as Ava Farmer, author of 'Second Impressions' - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 6.30pm Drinks Reception/7.00pm Talk - Free admission, booking essential
An evening talk by Sandy Lerner, Chairman and Founder of Chawton House Library, at the Library. The author of 'Second Impressions', an historically-accurate sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sandy Lerner will be discussing her influences in writing the book and will also be signing copies. A question and answer session will follow.
Launching in the UK in March 2012, Second Impressions explores the changes to the Darcy family's life, Europe post-Napoleon, and life in late Regency England with humour, authenticity, and a love of Austen's language to endow the characters with a credible afterlife.
7 to 10 March - Spare Tyre celebrates International Women's Day - New Diorama Theatre, 15-16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, London NW1 3BF - Tickets: £10.50 full / £5.50 concessions
Picture Me - celebrating the voices of women
Global stories from women young and old, compelling readings, truthful performances. Featuring excerpts from The War Zone is My Bed by Yasmine Beverly Rana.
7th March - 7:30pm
8th March - 2:30pm & 7:30pm (with Q+A)
9th March - 2:30pm (with Q+A) & 7:30pm
10th March - 7:30pmTo Book: 020 7383 9034 / www.newdiorama.com
For more information: http://sparetyre.org/whats-on/events/picture-me/
8 March - International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed.
9 to 18 March - The Secret Staircase - Rook Lane Chapel, Bath Street, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1DN - Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pm - Free admission
To celebrate International Women's Day 2012, artist Caroline Isgar and author Michèle Roberts will transport their exhibition/installation 'The Secret Staircase' to Rook Lane Chapel in Frome, Somerset.
The exhibition explores mother-child separation. Roberts (winner of W. H. Smith Literary award, shortlisted for Booker) has produced the prose and Isgar (artist and printmaker) has created the visual artwork.
They were initially inspired by tokens discovered at the Foundling Museum, in London - identifying tags, rings, plaques, coins etc. Seeing the tiny tokens that women had left with their babies, in order to be able to recognise them later on - and knowing that they were eventually taken away by the authorities - was deeply distressing.
Out of the symbols of mothers losing their babies, they began to play with the idea of a daughter losing her mother and using tokens in the same way, to identify the lost mother.
Further details at the Rook Lane Arts website.
10 March - International Womens Day 2012 at the Working Class Movement Library - 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX - Free admission
The Working Class Movement Library in Salford will as usual be celebrating International Women' s Day on Saturday 10 March 2012 with an event featuring two speakers reflecting working class women's experiences in literature and the trade union movement.
Speakers: Nicola Wilson and Karen Bosson
Nicola Wilson will speak about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, to mark the re-publication of her 1925 novel This Slavery - a radical feminist and socialist tale of love, loss, poverty and politics.
Karen Bosson will be speaking on the challenges for women in non-traditional workplaces and the importance of trade unions to women.The event is free. All welcome.
Further information on the WCML website: http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/international-womens-day-2012/
15 March - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Friendship as a Radical Act.
Researcher: Rachael
29 March - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Postmodern Perspectives on Middle Eastern Feminism.
Researcher: Manijeh
30 March - Childhood, Sexuality and Sexualisation - Cardiff school of social sciences - 9:30am until 3:30pm
A conference for young people, practitioners and policy makers
31 March - All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work Exhibition tour - The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT - 6.30pm - Admission free
Come and hear about the many different types of jobs women have held and see the highlights of the exhibition.
April 2012
5 April - Edinburgh anarcha feminist reading group meeting, 62 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
Come along to our new reading group where we discuss and debate different feminist topics fortnightly by a wood burning stove... This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! Please call 07518598002 for more information.
Topic: Dress and Emancipation (are slutwalks feminist?).
Researcher: Anna Lucine and anyone else?
14 April - Inner Child Concert for survivors of all types of abuse and trauma - St. Gabriels Church, Pimlico, Warwick Square, London, SW1V 2AD - 7.30pm - £10/£8 Concessions on the door
Solo Guitar Recital - Works by Ponce, Scarlatti, Falla
Georgina Whitehead - Classical Guitar
For more info: www.georginawhitehead.com
May 2012
June 2012
7 June - Evening Lecture with Dr Laura Engel - 'Much Ado About Muffs: Actresses, Accessories, and Austen' - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 6.30pm Drinks Reception/7.00pm Talk - £10 (Students & Friends, £7.50)
Dr Laura Engel presents a fascinating insight into eighteenth-century culture in her lecture, 'Much Ado About Muffs'. Dr Engel has published widely in the fields of gender and theatricality, and has contributed introductions and notes to novels by Austen and Charlotte Bronte.
20 June - Evening Lecture with Professor Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace - '"Penance and Mortification for Ever": Jane Austen and Catholicism' - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 6.30pm Drinks Reception/7.00pm Talk - £10 (Students & Friends, £7.50)
Professor Kowaleski Wallace specialises in British eighteenth-century literature and culture and feminist and cultural theory. She has published on eighteenth-century women writers, eighteenth-century consumer culture, and most recently, on the way that the British slave trade has been remembered and represented in the popular imagination.
25 June - vening Talk & Book Launch with Dr Katie Halsey - '"A Pair of Fine Eyes": Sight and Insight in Jane Austen's Novels' - Chawton House Library, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ - 6.30pm Drinks Reception/7.00pm Talk - £10 (Students & Friends, £7.50)
Part of Alton's Jane Austen Regency Week.
When Mr Darcy meditates on the pleasure bestowed by "a pair of fine eyes" in Pride and Prejudice, he does so because eyes are so very expressive. In this talk, Dr Katie Halsey explores the relationship between the physical eye and the eyes of the mind in Austen's novels.
July 2012
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
7 October - Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.
For more information on how to get involved, see the Finding Ada blog and Facebook group.
Finding Ada on Twitter
November 2012
20 November - Transgender Day of Remembrance
The Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day set aside each year to memorialise those who have been killed as a result of transphobia (anti-trans hatred or prejudice).
