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Call for Papers: WSG 40th Anniversary ‘Afterlives’ Project

On 7 January 2027, it will be exactly 40 years since WSG’s first meeting.  We intend to celebrate this milestone anniversary with two major collaborative events on the theme of ‘afterlives’: an online workshop, and a trade book compiled from the workshop contributions.

Our proposed theme, ‘Afterlives’, provides the potential for both expansive and reflective thinking. We could explore not only the representation of women throughout history but also WSG’s role in promoting the study of women over four decades. We’re open to a broad range of interpretations, but papers may wish to consider how women have been forgotten in posterity; the various ways in which they have been posthumously portrayed, vilified, or celebrated; and any progress (or lack thereof) in the exploration of women’s history in the past four decades.

We invite proposals for 10-minute papers. By submitting a proposal to the workshop, you confirm that you will subsequently submit your paper for publication. We will be requesting a 3,000-word mini chapter suitable for a general reader (submission date to be confirmed, probably mid-2027).

There will also be two bursary awards available for participants to conduct further research prior to their chapter submissions (applications open from October 2026 with awards announced January 2027).

Contributions should ideally be for one of the following six categories, which will form the basis of our workshop programme and book structure:

  • Travelling Women
  • Royal Women
  • Women in Art
  • Women Writers
  • Scientific Women
  • Religious Women

These were the most popular categories suggested in the informal expressions of interest we received from members. However, we’re open to receiving proposals on other themes, and may adjust this structure if exciting options materialise!

Please send a draft title and short proposal (maximum 350 words) by 14 August to louise@philipmarksav.co.uk and veschutte@gmail.com. The programme will be finalized by mid-September. Feel free to get in touch with any questions.  

NOTE: We’ll also be holding an informal in-person celebration on Saturday 17 April 2027 at the Foundling Museum and potentially a book launch in 2028. Details to be announced nearer the time.

REMINDER Call for Papers: Adventurous Wives in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Southampton

On Friday 19th June 2020, Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCECS) will host a one-day conference on the theme of Adventurous Wives in the Long Eighteenth Century. The conference will examine the role(s) of the wife as seen through the fields of literature, social and economic history, law, art history and material culture.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• The economic and financial autonomy of women following marriage

• Feme sole traders

• The visibility of single versus married women in the literature of the period

• Wives’ involvement in politics and public life

• Working wives

• Women and the divorce process

• Inheritance and the transmission of property through the female line

• Trusts, property ownership and separate estate

• Wives as educators

• Conduct literature and wives

• The married woman as literary heroine

• Quasi-marriages and kept Mistresses

• The married female body

• Material culture, fashion and taste

• Housewifery

• Wives as guardians of morality and social order

• The historiography of the wife: change or continuity?

Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words with a short bio to the conference organisers Kim Simpson (K.Simpson@soton. ac.uk) and Alison Daniell (A.H.Daniell@soton.ac.uk) by 1 MARCH 2020.

Call for Papers: Adventurous Wives in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Southampton

On Friday 19th June 2020, Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCECS) will host a one-day conference on the theme of Adventurous Wives in the Long Eighteenth Century. The conference will examine the role(s) of the wife as seen through the fields of literature, social and economic history, law, art history and material culture.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• The economic and financial autonomy of women following marriage

• Feme sole traders

• The visibility of single versus married women in the literature of the period

• Wives’ involvement in politics and public life

• Working wives

• Women and the divorce process

• Inheritance and the transmission of property through the female line

• Trusts, property ownership and separate estate

• Wives as educators

• Conduct literature and wives

• The married woman as literary heroine

• Quasi-marriages and kept Mistresses

• The married female body

• Material culture, fashion and taste

• Housewifery

• Wives as guardians of morality and social order

• The historiography of the wife: change or continuity?

Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words with a short bio to the conference organisers Kim Simpson (K.Simpson@soton. ac.uk) and Alison Daniell (A.H.Daniell@soton.ac.uk) by 1 MARCH 2020.