Professor Emily West and Elizabeth Barnes will be hosting the History of Women in the Americas Annual Conference at Reading in July 2019.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
UROP – Undergraduate Summer Research 2018
We are running three Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme placements this summer: ‘Offences against the person? Tracing hidden LGB histories through Berkshire court records and archives‘, ‘An Unconventional MP’: The political career of Nancy Astor in 50 documents‘ and ‘Hidden Voices: A digital exhibition of enslaved women in the lowcountry USA‘. See also Rachel Newton’s amazing blog on her Astor research: https://unireadinghistory.com/2018/07/18/otd-18-07-28/.
Undergraduate success
Recent graduate Avneet Basra’s work on British attitudes and practices towards mental health in nineteenth century India has won the University prize for best non-western history dissertation and Amie Bailey won the Berkshire Local History Association prize for the best Berkshire dissertation for her work on sexuality and madness.
August Stammtisch
The research cluster in gender history normally convenes every last Wednesday of the month at 5 pm. In August we will move the stammtisch to Tuesday, 28 August 2018, Park House.
Seminar ‘Researching Women and Colonial Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Kenya’ with Beth Rebisz, 28 August, 2 pm, Blandford Lodge, G01
Beth Rebisz (History, UoR) will present an Off the plane seminar (from students and staff who recently returned from research overseas) on ‘Researching Women and Colonial Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Kenya’. Please note in your calendars, 28 August at 2pm, Blandford Lodge, room G01. All are welcome.
Call for Papers: Research in Progress Postgraduate Conference: Histories of Gender, 24 October 2018
Our inaugural postgraduate conference takes place on 24 October 2018 at the University of Reading. Download details, including how to submit papers (deadline 3 August 2018).