Museum and Gallery Night: An exclusive virtual entry for WSG members into our discussion about the narratives constructed by our public and private museums and galleries.
Wednesday 29th May 2024, at 19.00 BST – Online zoom event for WSG members
Through their collections and exhibits, museums and galleries construct and convey a myriad of narratives about peoples and places. But why and how do they choose to tell us those stories, and do they tell the types of stories that we want to hear and that reflect the people, history and issues we care about?
Taking our WSG timeline of 1558-1837 as our general guide, this special evening event considers the stories told by private and public museums and galleries by asking questions such as, have there been innovations and re-hangs which you applaud or alternatively feel are disappointing? Do women and minorities feature positively in its collection? And, how inclusive, user-friendly, and unique do you think a museum’s collection is?
Join us for an evening’s discussion or better still, offer a short paper (10 minutes), to help us to consider these and other questions. Select a museum or gallery of your choice, and consider,
Would you recommend a visit and why?
What is outstanding about it?
How would you change and improve an exhibit or the collection?
Could you do it better?
Email Your proposals by 29th April 2024: wsgworkshop@gmail.com
Please also cc. Karen Lipsedge, who is chairing this event K. Lipsedge@kingston.ac.uk if you would like to talk about a museum or gallery.
Zoom invites will be sent to members the day before the event.
The contact email for the museum & gallery event is : wsgworkshop@gmail.com
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PAST EVENTS
The 2024 WSG Workshop took place on Saturday 6 April and thanks go out to Prof Jennie Batchelor for her excellent keynote ‘The Writer’s Craft: Needlework and Women’s Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century’.
Many thanks also to all the participants who braved the train strikes to attend and the many participants who gave presentations. It proved a very rewarding and stimulating event.
Link to Eventbrite for Registration to 2024 Workshop: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wsg-workshop-2024-pen-and-pin-womens-craft-and-creativity-tickets-798829569747?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 annual workshop typically takes place at The Foundling Museum, London. The one-day workshop includes lunch, as well as refreshments, in the booking cost. The day always follows the same format: a distinguished invited speaker provides the keynote in the morning, followed by discussion and lunch; then participants each give a 5-minute presentation on a subject relevant to the theme of the keynote, followed by discussion, and then the close of the workshop. Previous speakers have included Professor Judith Hawley of Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor Laura Gowing of King’s College London, Professor Jeanice Brooks of the University of Southampton, Dr Karen Lipsedge of Kingston University and Dr Emma Newport of University of Sussex.
QUESTIONS? Email wsgworkshop@gmail.com
2024 WORKSHOP
The Women’s Studies Group Workshop, 6th April 2024, 10.30-16.30, In Person at The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ
Title: Pen and Pin: Women’s Craft and Creativity
Our keynote speaker for the 2024 Workshop will be Professor Jennie Batchelor of the University of York. Her keynote title is:
‘The Writer’s Craft: Needlework and Women’s Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century’.
The title refers to a Cambridge Elements book with which Jennie is currently engaged. She writes:
‘The Writer’s Craft demonstrates that craft language, techniques and practice provided imaginative outlets through which a number of influential eighteenth-century women authors (from Jane Barker to Catherine Hutton) theorised their writing practice and asserted the cultural value of literature, female authorship and women’s labour. It rethinks the model of author-as-artist we have inherited from the Romantic period and argues for the recuperation of a model of authorial craftswomanship as a literary aesthetic and epistemology that more authentically captures the skills and ambitions of eighteenth-century women writers including Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier and Frances Burney. In so doing, The Writer’s Craft both challenges dominant literary and art historical accounts, which have viewed the pen and the needle in opposition to one another (e.g. Parker 1986, King 2002) and makes a substantial and original contribution to recent scholarship (e.g. Vickery, 1999, Dyer and Smith, 2020, Goggin and Tobin) that has underlined the creativity and politically and culturally expressive power of eighteenth-century women’s craft practice.’
Author of books on women’s writing, craft and labour, Jennie’s recent publication The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History is available to read on open access: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-lady-s-magazine-1770-1832-and-the-making-of-literary-history.html
Further details about booking, cost and the programme for the day will be available soon.
Please check the website for updates and we do hope to see many of you there!
The contact email for the workshop is : wsgworkshop@gmail.com
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Museum and Gallery Night: An exclusive virtual entry for WSG members into our discussion about the narratives constructed by our public and private museums and galleries.
Wednesday 29th May 2024, at 19.00 BST – Online zoom event for WSG members
Through their collections and exhibits, museums and galleries construct and convey a myriad of narratives about peoples and places. But why and how do they choose to tell us those stories, and do they tell the types of stories that we want to hear and that reflect the people, history and issues we care about?
Taking our WSG timeline of 1558-1837 as our general guide, this special evening event considers the stories told by private and public museums and galleries by asking questions such as, have there been innovations and re-hangs which you applaud or alternatively feel are disappointing? Do women and minorities feature positively in its collection? And, how inclusive, user-friendly, and unique do you think a museum’s collection is?
Join us for an evening’s discussion or better still, offer a short paper (10 minutes), to help us to consider these and other questions. Select a museum or gallery of your choice, and consider,
Would you recommend a visit and why?
What is outstanding about it?
How would you change and improve an exhibit or the collection?
Could you do it better?
Email Your proposals by 29th April 2024: wsgworkshop@gmail.com
Zoom invites will be sent to members the day before the event.
The contact email for the museum & gallery event is : wsgworkshop@gmail.com
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