Today, we launch our “Six Weeks for Suffrage Campaign” inviting anyone who is interested to help us fill in our map of all the memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the world. Click on the image opposite to see how you can take part!
Sites of Feminist Memory: Remembering Suffrage in Europe and the United States of America
Phase 1: 7 May – 7 June 2021
Phase 2: 8-11 June 2021
This is a slow e-conference.
In phase 1, attendees are invited to read, listen and watch the papers listed below and post comments & questions for speakers in the comments section of each panel.
In phase 2, speakers will answer those comments and questions in a series of live Zoom sessions (times and dates for these can be found below).
If you wish to attend the conference, please email us at feministmemory@gmail.com by 5 May 2021. The link to the conference website will be sent out on 6 May 2021.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
KEYNOTE
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (University of Wollongong): “‘Dead Women Can’t Vote’: Contesting Consent when (Mis)Remembering Suffragists”
Live on Zoom on Tuesday June 8th, 2021 – 9.00-10.00 A.M Paris time
PANEL 1
Making feminist memory: the politics of remembering suffrage
Part 1: Tuesday, June 8, 2021
4.00-5.00 P.M Paris time
Chair: Marc Calvini-Lefebvre
Mariah Gruner (Boston University): “Folded into the Archive: racialized textile labors and the work of suffrage remembrance”
Lisa M Tetrault (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): “Susan B. Anthony down the racist rabbit hole: a journey into the bizarre”
Part 2: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
3.00-4.00 P.M Paris time
Chair: Nicolas Boileau
Liviana Gazzetta (Independent Scholar): “Une saison de mémoire du premier féminisme italien (1869-1882): hétérogenèse du message”
Mariana Ripoll-Fonollar (University of the Balearic Islands): “Romance as historiography: at the crossroads of commemoration and commodification”
PANEL 2
Hegemonic memorial practices: sites of suffrage memory at/in/and the centre
Part 1: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
4.30-5.30 P.M Paris time
Chair: Nicolas Boileau
Veronica Wilson (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown): “The memorial reinvention of Susan Lawrence Dana”
Claire Delahaye (Université Gustave Eiffel): “‘A museum and a laboratory of feminism’: The National Woman’s Party Headquarters in Washington, D.C.”
Part 2: Thursday, June 10, 2021
3.00-4.00 P.M Paris time
Chair: Anne Légier
Seda Arikan (Fırat University, Turkey) & Omer Erkut Bulut (King’s College, London): “A feminist site that is ruined and polished: Halide Edib Adivar and her disputed bust in Turkish history”
Günül Bakay (Bahçeşehir University İstanbul): “Sites of Feminist Memory: Florence Nightingale in Turkey”
PANEL 3
Counter-hegemonic memorial practices: creating alternative sites of suffrage memory to resist erasure
Part 1: Thursday June 10, 2021
4.30-5.30 P.M Paris time
Chair: Anne Légier
Angela Shpolgerg (Brandeis University): “Memorializing Emma Goldman”
Clara Vlessing (Utrecht University): “Context upheld: the digital and local premeditations of a Sylvia Pankhurst Mural”
Part 2: Friday June 11, 2021
3.00-4.00 P.M Paris time
Chair: Claire Sorin
Ana Maria Alves & Cláudia Martins (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal): “Women’s vindication in Portugal: Carolina Beatriz Ângelo a pioneer in surgery and in voting”
Nicole Cadène (Aix-Marseille Université): “Pas de statue pour Hubertine”
PANEL 4
Remembering to fight: Mobilizing suffrage memory in mass movement politics
Friday June 11, 2021
4.30-5.30 P.M Paris time
Chair: Claire Sorin
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (Case Western Reserve University) : “The body as a site of memory: the uses and legacy of suffrage fashion”
Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn College/CUNY) “On the Shirley Chisholm Trail: the Legacy of Suffrage and Citizenship Engagement”
After five years exploring women’s resistance to feminism in the English-speaking world, our team is embarking on a new project: tracing the spectres of feminism in women’s lives, public spaces and scholarly discourses. You can read more about our plans on our newly refurbished website: https://wfw.hypotheses.org/
