Conference Programme: Women's Suffrage and Beyond, Local, National and International Contexts
Women’s Suffrage and Beyond: Local, National and International Contexts, Oxford University, 4 & 5 October 2018.
Conference Programme
Thursday 4 October 2018
9.15: Registration in the Weston Library Foyer
10.00: Welcome (Senia Paseta, Co-Director, Women in the Humanities)
10.15-11.15: Keynote Lecture: Nicoletta Gullace (University of New Hampshire)
11.15-12.45: Parallel Panels A and B
Panel A: Suffrage in the Home and in the Classroom
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
Alison McClean (Independent Scholar): Girls’ Education and the Campaign for Female Suffrage in Bristol
Helen Sunderland (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge): ‘The “Suffragettes” cannot be well represented in our Form’: English Girls’ High Schools and the Women’s Suffrage Debate
Laura Schwartz (University of Warwick): Behind-The-Scenes in the Suffrage Home: The Invisible Labour That Won the Vote
Panel B: Writing, Creativity and Performance in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Venue: The Bahari Room
Sos Eltis (Brasenose College, University of Oxford): “The Weakest Link”: Suffrage writing, class interests and the isolated woman of leisure
Richard Parfitt (Linacre College, University of Oxford): Territorial Politics and Aural Space: A comparison of musical performance in women’s suffrage and Irish political movements
Naomi Paxton (SAS, University of London and Vote 100): Lapboard Ladies: suffrage on the New York subway
12.45-2.00: Lunch
2.00- 3.30 Parallel Panels C and D
Panel C: Irish Nationalism and Feminist Activism
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University): ‘Was there an Irish voice in 19th Century British Suffrage debates? Investigating parliamentary petitions and speeches’
Ciara Stewart (Durham University): Petitioning against the Contagious Diseases acts in Britain and Ireland: A comparative perspective
Mary McAuliffe (University College, Dublin): ‘Women voted early and in large numbers’: Irishwomen, activism and the 1918 General Election
Panel D: Grassroots Activism and Local Political Networks
Venue: The Bahari Room
Beth Jenkins (University of Essex): ‘There is…a great difference in the people of the two halves of the Principality’: Place, Identity and Suffrage in Wales
Ruth Boreham (Independent Scholar): WSPU militancy: A case study of grassroots activism in Scotland
Anna Muggeridge (University of Worcester): ‘A matter of justice, long overdue’: women’s suffrage and local political networks in Walsall, c1910-1938
3.30 – 4.15: Tea and Coffee
4.15 – 5.15: Discussion Panel (Commemoration) Helen Antrobus (People’s History Museum), Kathryn Gleadle (Mansfield College, Oxford) Mari Takayanagi (Parliamentary Archives and Vote 100), Rowena Hillel (The National Archives) and Matthew Smith (Citizen Project, Royal Holloway University)
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
5.30-6.30: Drinks Reception and Performance from the Oxford Belles
Venue: the Divinity School and Convocation House
6.30-7.30: Keynote Lecture: Susan Grayzel (Utah State University)
Venue: the Divinity School and Convocation House
8pm: Dinner at Branca
Friday 5 October 2018
9.30-11: Parallel Panels E and F
Panel E: Campaigns and Opportunities in Wartime
Venue: The Oxford Martin School
Alexandra Hughes-Johnson (WiH, University of Oxford): ‘Keep your eyes on us because there is no more napping’: The wartime suffrage campaigns of the Suffragettes of the WSPU and the Independent WSPU
Lisa Cox-Davis (University of Worcester): New fields of usefulness’: Activists within the suffrage movement who became the pioneers of women’s policing.
Sophie Almond (University of Leicester): The Lady Doctor’s Limitations: The Association of Registered Medical Women (ARMW) and the British Suffrage Movement
Panel F: Suffrage in Print: Representations in the Press and Periodicals
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
Sarah Pederson (Robert Gordon University): The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press
Tania Shew (University of Manchester): Militancy Within the Marital Sphere: the politicisation of marriage as a radical response to the limitations of the nineteenth-century suffragist movement, 1905-1914
Flore Janssen and Amy Matthewson (Birkbeck and SOAS, University of London): Cartooning Suffrage: Visual Representations of Women and the Vote in Punch, c.1905-1919
11-11.30: Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.30: Discussion Panel and Performance (Artistic responses to the centenary) Sally Nicholls, Lucy Pankhurst, Charlotte Delaney, Hazel Reeves and Claire Frampton
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
12.30-1.45: Lunch
1.45- 3.30 Parallel Panels G and H
Panel G: International Activist Networks
Venue: The Oxford Martin School
Karen Hunt (Keele University): Suffrage internationalism in practise: Finland, suffrage and Dora Montefiore
Katherine Connelly (Arcadia University): Sylvia Pankhurst’s tours of North America and the East London federation of Suffragettes
Maurice Casey (Jesus College, University of Oxford): Votes for Women to World Revolution: Suffragettes and International Communism
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Yale University): Songs of Sisterhood: Feminism and the question of empire in the age of internationalism
Panel H: Changes and Impact: Feminist Strategies after 1918
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
Lisa Berry-White (University of Exeter): Women candidates in Britain 1918-1922
Ellen Ross (Ramapo College of New Jersey): After the Vote: Women Graduates Look for Work
Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield): Suffrage Afterlives and Deaths: The post-suffrage career and suicide of Dame Helena Swanwick
3.30-4.30: Discussion Panel (Activism) Sam Smethers (Fawcett Society), Mara Clarke (Abortion Support Network), Leyla Hussein (Dahlia Project) Kay Banyard (UK Feminista)
Venue: The Weston Lecture Theatre
4.30-4.45: Closing Remarks
