Jasmin Bieber has organized this year’s WSG panel for the BSECS 55th Annual Conference “Big and Small” (7-9 January 2026, Oxford). WSG’s panel is on Wednesday 7 January, Session 4 (15:40-17:40). The full programme for the conference is available here: BSECS Annual Conference To register, visit this page: BSECS Conference Registration (Hybrid option available).
WSG session details:
Title: Women Measuring up the World (This will be a Hybrid Session)
Chair: Jasmin Bieber, University of Konstanz
Speakers:
Laura Giuliano, Intimacy and Grandeur: Female Images between Monumental Portraits and Miniatures
Carolyn D Williams, Dwindling into a Wife: Size, Sex and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Charlotte Vallis, ‘…too fat to be in a plot…’ The advantages and disadvantages of size for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, 1741-1761
Zoe Copeman, Cankerous Femme: The European Mastectomy and the Semiotics of Surgery
Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837 