Transnational History and Gender - A half-day workshop at University College London (UCL)

Room G09/10, 26 Gordon Square, UCL Department of History

This event explores the role of transnational experiences in the construction and perception of gender from 1500. The workshop brings together specialists from different sub-disciplines of history as well as historians with a specific theoretical interest in gender studies and/or transnational history.
The event is open to researchers and graduate students; it is run in cooperation with the European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean.

1:30 pm Sandwich lunch
2:00 pm Welcome by AXEL KÖRNER, Joint Coordinator of the Centre for Transnational History and Reader in Modern European History, UCL

Panel 1
SILVIA EVANGELISTI, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia:
‘Gender, Religion and Mediation in Colonial Spanish America’

ANNA GUST, Doctoral Student in Modern History, UCL:
‘Gender and Imperalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Bombay’

3:15 pm Light refreshments

3:30 pm Panel 2

WENDY BRACEWELL, Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer in History, UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES): ‘Gender, Travel Writing and Europe’

MARIE SANDELL, Teaching Fellow in Modern Non-Western World History, Royal Holloway University, London:
‘Learning In/From the West: International Students and Female Activism in the Interwar Period’

4:30 pm Coffee break

4:45 pm Comment by Dame OLWEN HUFTON, Honorary Fellow of UCL and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford

Open discussion

Concluding remarks on gender in the writing of transnational history by DANIEL LAQUA,Teaching Fellow in Modern European History, UCL

6:15 pm Drinks

Please register for this workshop by sending a brief email to Daniel Laqua (d.laqua@ucl.ac.uk). For general information on the work of the UCL Centre for Transnational History, please contact Axel Körner (a.korner@ucl.ac.uk).