Zoom Seminar
Thursday 16 January, 2025 – ZOOM
STARTING 6.45 FOR 7 PM, FINISHING 8.30 PM. GREENWICH MEAN TIME
Speakers and papers:
Jasmin Bieber: Unprecedented Paths Beyond Europe: British Women’s Travel Writing 1680-1780.
Chandni (Anjali) Rampersad: Female Genius In Memoriam: Women Writers’ Afterlife in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1731-1806).
Rosalyn Sklar: Healing women: Early modern women as healers in their own texts, practices and representations.
The seminar will take place on Zoom. Please be aware, you must be a member of the WSG to gain access to the Zoom sessions. The links are distributed through our WSG mailing list 24-hours before the event.
For further information, please see our seminars page. To join the WSG, please see our membership page.
Special Seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad
Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON
STARTING 1 FOR 1.30 PM, FINISHING 4.30 PM GREENWICH MEAN TIME
The Women’s Studies Group will be holding a special seminar at the Foundling Museum in London on 18 January 2025, from 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Come along and listen to Julie Peakman introduce a new edited collection, Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad.
Julie and contributors from the book will give short talks on their chapters. Speakers include Valentina Aparicio, Maria Grazia Dongu, Louise Duckling, Miriam al Jamil, and Teresa Rączka-Jeziorska. Please see the attached PDF for more details and the full book contents.
There will be plenty of time for sociability, so we hope you can join us. Friends and partners are welcome. Please RSVP to wsgpostbox@gmail.com with ‘Travellers’ in the Subject Line and please indicate if you are bringing a guest.
The Foundling is a wheelchair accessible venue, and directions for getting to the Museum can be found here, including for those who are partially sighted.
Come and join us for a glass of wine at this social event.
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