Postgraduate
One-day Postgraduate Forum
We are pleased to announce a one-day postgraduate forum on 'Women, History and Sexuality' to be held at the University of Chichester on April 1st (start time: 10.30 am, location: Bishop Otter Campus, H144). The conference is interdisciplinary and the theme is a 'light' one that speakers will approach as they wish, although the aim is to examine women's often troubled relationship with the discourses of history and sexuality. Plenary speakers are: Dr Sue Morgan (Chichester), editor of The Feminist History Reader; and Dr Nina Power (Roehampton), author of One Dimensional Women (2009), speaking on issues in contemporary femininsm. Entry is free and all are welcome. To register an interest, contact Deborah Brown.
Preliminary Schedule
10.30 Introduction: Dr Fiona Price, 'Romantic women writers and the fictions of history: some introductory remarks'';
10.40 - 11.10 Short plenary and questions: Dr Susan Morgan on history and women's sexuality;
11.15-12.30 panel 1 ;
12.30 - 1.15 lunch;
1.30-2.45 panel 2;
2.45-3 tea break;
3-4.15 Plenary 2: Dr Nina Power on issues in contemporary feminism
One of the key aims of the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group is to encourage dialogue amongst the South Coast postgraduate community. Postgraduates from any discipline are warmly invited to attend group events, seminars and conferences, as well as any events targeted specifically at postgraduates.
Points of contact for postgraduate and early careers include Debbie Welham (University of Winchester) and Deborah Brown (University of Chichester).
Postgraduates are welcome to submit conference reports or book reviews of up to 500 words for consideration for publication on this website.
Conference report: ‘New Directions in Austen Studies’ Chawton House Library 2009
Workshop report: ‘Writing Women’s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities’ University of Kent November 2009
Call for Papers: 'Framing the Self' University of Porsmouth Centre for Studies in LIterature Annual Postgraduate Symposium
Other sites of useful information include: British Association of Romantic Studies postgraduate page, including information about BARS postgraduate conferences and grants and prizes for postgraduates www.bars.ac.uk/
Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)
AHRC: www.ahrc.ac.uk