While proposals addressing any aspects of women’s suffrage will be welcomed, this conference will focus upon three strands:
- Women’s suffrage in/and the arts
- Women’s suffrage in Surrey and the surrounds
- Transnational networks and flows of texts in relation to women’s suffrage
20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of these strands, including but not limited to:
- Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women’s writing on suffrage;
- Political reflections on the arts and the cultural sphere, e.g. in music;
- Transnational networks and mobilities of political texts and ideas, incorporating suffrage movements in other countries;
- Politically active individuals with strong links to Surrey (particularly in relation to the arts) e.g. Mary Watts, Dame Ethel Smyth, Gertrude Jekyll, Marion Wallace Dunlop;
- Networks such as Ferguson’s Gang, Surrey Hills Group, Surrey Pilgrimage Group, and women who organised suffrage marches;
- Sociological theories of women’s suffrage;
- Contributions of women of colour to suffrage movements in Britain and globally;
- Art (both historical and contemporary) inspired by women’s suffrage.
Proposals for panels of 3–4 papers (1.5–2 hours) are also warmly welcomed, as are proposals for one-hour roundtables of 3–5 participants. We encourage proposals from postgraduate students and independent scholars in addition to institutionally-affiliated established academics.
Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be e-mailed by 26 January 2018 to suffragecentennial@surrey.ac.uk. Decisions will be communicated to speakers by 23 February 2018. A limited number of student bursaries may be offered to offset costs of attendance.
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CFP Women’s Suffrage and the Arts Surrey 29-30 June 2018
CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS ON WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE ARTS: Local, National, Transnational 