The WSG offer regular events and activities throughout the year. Below, you will find our annual calendar. The calendar is updated each September, with minor updates capturing any changes made in January each year.
WSG Events Calendar for 2025 – 2026 Updated 27 October 2025
| Day/Date/Time | Event | Event details |
| Tuesday 28 October 2025 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT) | Online Reading Group: Her Stories – K Lipsedge | Frances Brookes’ ‘History of Emily Montague’ |
| Sat 1 November 2025 | WSG BURSARY | Opening date for Bursary applications. Deadline is 15 December 2025. Further details and application form are on the Bursary page. |
| Thurs 6 November 2025 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar Chair: K Lipsedge Zoom host: K Griscom | Valerie Schutte: Queen Mary I of England and portrait medals in print. Conor Byrne: Executionsof British Queens in early modern images. Yihong Zhu: Women at night in eighteenth-century London. |
| Thursday 27 Nov 2025 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT) | Online – Delivered by Louise Duckling | Support Network Workshop 1: ‘Demystifying the publication process’. |
| Sat 6 December 2025 13:00 for 13:30 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum. Chair: V Aparicio | Breeze Barrington on Mary of Modena’s artistic legacy. Diane Clements: ‘A very anxious and affectionate mother’: dealing with personal indebtedness in Georgian England. Rhian Jones on Epistolary friendship between women & men in England… |
| Tuesday 9 December 2025 19:00 -20:00 (GMT) Zoom link to be circulated to all members nearer to the event. | Online In-conversation Event with Adrienne Childs & Karen Lipsedge | All WSG members are invited to an in – Conversation event with Adrienne Childs and Karen Lipsedge, when Adrienne be talking about her new publication Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts (Yale Press, 2025). Adrienne & Karen’s conversation will draw on the themes of objects, race, and gender in the 18th century. A Q&A will follow their conversation. If members would like to enhance their knowledge of these themes in advance of the event, they may like to read the Introduction, & Chapters Three & Four from Adrienne’s Ornamental Blackness. |
| Thurs 18 December 2025 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT) | Online ‘Get-together’ | Informal social event open to all WSG members. Organiser is Michaela Vance. Zoom link and more details will be sent in advance of the event. |
| Thursday 15 January 2026 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar via Zoom Chair: Beth Stewart Zoom host: K Griscom | Stephen Spiess: Trans Allegoresis: Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Assaulted & Pursued Chastity’. Vicki Joule onSelf, Delarivier Manley and the ‘Stage’ coach. Gillian Beattie-Smith: Creating women’s literary identities: the Tour of Scotland. Brianna Robertson-Kirkland: Camilla Corri’s musical legacy in Edinburgh. |
| Sat 24 January 2026 10:00 – 12:00 (GMT) | Online Delivered by Sara Read | Support Network Workshop 2: Top 10 Tips to Producing Quick and Succinct PowerPoint Presentations for Conferences. Max. number of attendants = 20 |
| Sat 7 February 2026 13:00 for13:30 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum Chair: G Williamson Tech Host: T Messent | Esther Villegas de la Torre ‘Seventeenth-century women scholars: an interdisciplinary, comparative approach’. Nora Rodriguez Loro: Medbourne’s dedication of St Cecily (1666) to Catherine of Braganza. Sarah Clarke: Catharine Pelzer’s years in Exeter: From child prodigy to adult musician. |
| Proposed Dates- Either 23 or 24 or 26 February 2026 From 14:00 (GMT) | Online – at 14:00 Date to be finalised by Doodle Poll | Support Network Workshop 3: ‘Editing multi-author collections’. Delivered by Louise Duckling and Brianna Robertson- Kirkland. Max number of attendants: 20. Louise and Brianna will circulate the Doodle Poll nearer the date. |
| Saturday 7 March 2026 Timing tbc | International Women’s Day | WSG in collaboration with the Foundling Museum. Organiser is Miriam Al Jamil, who will be pleased to receive suggestions. Email at 2wsgevents@gmail.com |
| Thurs 12 March 2026 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar via Zoom Chair: Valerie Schutte Zoom host: Karen Griscom | Sarah Barthélemy: Spiritual retreats and women in early modern France. Helena Queirós: Mediated bodies, devotional scripts: intermedial practices in early modern convents. Laura Giuliano: Lady Anna Miller (1741-1781) and […] connoisseurship. Teresa Rączka-Jeziorska: A Polish museum in an English garden. Romantic collection […] of Princess Izabella Czartorska née Flemming. |
| Thurs 19 March 2026 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar via Zoom Chair: Miriam Al Jamil Zoom host: K Griscom | Elisabetta Marino: Mary Shelley and biography. Ramit Samaddar: Sophia Goldborne in colonial Calcutta: Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House, Calcutta. Charlotte Vallis: French Ambassadors at the courts of Elizabeth Petrovna & Catherine II. Lisa VandenBerghe and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin: Victoria de Chastenay: a scholar, an archive, a digital edition. |
| Thurs 16 April 2026 19:00 – 20:00 (BST) | Online workshop via Zoom | Support Network Workshop 4: ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’. Delivered by Karen Lipsedge. Max number of attendants: 12 |
| Saturday 18 April 2026 Time to be confirmed | In-person Workshop Foundling Museum | An opportunity to present and discuss your academic interests with other WSG members. Keynote speaker tba. Contact Trudie via 2wsgevents@gmail.com |
| Thurs 30 April 2026 18:45 – 20:15 (BST) | Online workshop via Zoom | Support Network Workshop 5: ‘How to proofread your writing like a pro’. Delivered by Louise Duckling. Maximum number of attendants: 12 |
| Thurs 14 May 2026 19:00 – 20:00 (BST) Zoom | In- conversation: Karen Lipsedge & Paterson Joseph | Karen Lipsedge will be In-Conversation with the award-winning actor and author, Paterson Joseph, who will talk about his novel ‘The Secret Diary of Charles Ignatius Sancho’. Zoom link will be emailed to all members closer to the event. |
| Saturday 16 May Time to be confirmed | Summer Visit to Ham House, Ham. | Ham House, Ham, Richmond TW10 7RSis a National Trust property, former home of Catherine & Elizabeth Murray. Contact Trudie: 2wsgevents@gmail.com |
| NOTES: Seminar titles have been shortened here .Full Seminar paper titles and abstracts are available here. For Seminar queries please email 2wsgevents@gmail.com. For Support Network Workshops, Reading Group and Online In-conversation Event queries please email k.lipsedge@kingston.ac.uk. | ||
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