The Heritage Partnerships Team is pleased to promote this conferece, which is generously supported by the Women's History Network, University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, Northwest Consortuim Doctoral Training Partnership, and White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.
The British country house is a key site of power. In the midst of global political organisingand a pandemic that challenges the future of such institutions, the time to reckon with theirnetworks of power is now.
Happening online on 25 & 26 January 2022, Power & Patriarchy investigates women’s contributions to founding, maintaining, resisting, anddisrupting country houses, rejecting the purported 'scarcity' of women's lives and historiesin such spaces.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together early career scholars and practitionersto place the country house in dialogue with current feminist, queer, anti- and decolonialscholarship. We invite proposals for 15-20-minute presentations of any format. We welcome full panel proposals as well as roundtable discussions, experimental and creativesubmissions. Proposals might engage with, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Gendered spaces in the country house
- Queering women’s lives and domesticities
- Women’s political economies
- Working-class women and the country house
- Women’s roles in colonial and imperial exchange
- Women and knowledge production
- Building more inclusive histories of the country house
Please send an abstract of max. 250 words with a short bio to powerandpatriarchy@gmail.com by Friday 19 November 2021.
You can download the call for papers here.
You can find out more at powerandpatriarchy.com and on Twitter @PowerPatriarchy.
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