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International Women’s Day Talk and Debate

Wednesday 8th March, 6-8pm, Palmer 102. Human rights matter to everyone and the principle of equal rights is key to its definition. International Women’s Day is an annual opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women across the world, but it’s … Continue reading

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Celebrating women

We have had a busy week celebrating women in and of the department of English this week. On Monday, we hosted the remarkable Jamaican woman poet Jean Binta Breeze who read from her recent collection The Verandah Poems and treated … Continue reading

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY DEBATE

 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY DEBATE:  HAS ‘EQUALITY FOR WOMEN’ BEEN ACHIEVED? WHAT DOES ‘PROGRESS’ MEAN? WHO’S DECIDING?  International Women’s Day Event (9th March, 2015)   Members of the English Department led an evening of talks and debate to celebrate International Women’s … Continue reading

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Joan Smith on Edith Morley

Edith Morley Lecture: The female role model in 2014 Thursday 6 March, 7.30pm, Great Hall, London Road campus The University is delighted to present the Inaugural Edith Morley Lecture, which will take place on 6 March 2014 to celebrate International … Continue reading

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Women’s Talks

 Following the huge success of the talk organized to celebrate International Women’s Day in March, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Professor Grace Ioppolo and Dr Madeleine Davies will be speaking at a second event organized by the Student Union Women’s Campaign Group … Continue reading

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The last of our International Women’s Day reports

Dr Madeleine Davies writes: As you might be aware from previous blog posts, to celebrate International Women’s Day this year, Dr Madeleine Davies, Professor Grace Ioppolo, and Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (all Department of English staff members) were invited to speak … Continue reading

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International Women’s Day talk

Following on from our recent blog post on Karin Lesnik-Oberstein’s talk on 6th March at the Student Union’s Women’s Group ‘International Women’s Day’ event, we are now pleased to share the talk given by Grace Ioppolo: Why women and members of minority … Continue reading

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Feminism today – talks by our colleagues

On Wednesday 6th March the Student Union’s Women’s Group hosted an ‘International Women’s Day’ party. Here is the first of our reports on the talks given by members of the Department of English Literature: Karín talked about the way that feminism is … Continue reading

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International Women’s Day party

This is just a quick reminder to all that the Student Union’s Women’s Group is hosting an ‘International Women’s Day’ party on Wednesday 6th March The event will be held in Humss Room 125, Whiteknights Campus, from 6 pm. Several members of the English … Continue reading

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Poetry Competition

Antonia Sales, of the Reading University Women’s Campaign Society, writes:   Creative Writing Competition for International Women’s Day   On Friday 8th March, the Women’s Campaign Society are holding a fayre for International Women’s Day. In aid of this we … Continue reading

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