Category: Events
Here are some event related blog posts from panels, workshops and conferences we have organised during the project. You can also find information about our Activist Legacies Roundtable events and specific workshop and conferences from the “Events” menu in the navigation at the top of the page.
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Activist Legacies Roundtable 2
Join us on Thursday 25th May to discuss the legacies of feminist print magazines in the digital age!
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Rewired and revamped? Media & trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond
We’re excited to announce that the Liberating Histories team will be presenting their research at the FEMCORUS symposium, ‘Rewired and revamped? Media & trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond’ at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, 11-12 May 2023. We’ll be talking about affect, anger and loneliness in feminist magazines. You can find a full programme here. Networks…
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CALL FOR PAPERS! Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition
A special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies How has feminist media activism transitioned from the print era to the digital? What are the key events or moments of technological transition which have signalled shifts in feminist media activism or production (for instance, the rise of TV/televised events, radio, Xerox machines, hashtags, or TikTok)?…
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International Women’s Day in Feminist Magazines: A Short but Radical History
Some of the earliest coverage of International Women’s Day (IWD) in feminist magazines of the 1970s-80s takes the form of demonstrations, like this one advertised in Red Rag issue 4 (1973): Red Rag write about the origin of IWD in the feminist strike: How many of us realise that one of the events, which sparked…
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Feminism(s) in the Media
The Liberating Histories team will be presenting their research at the conference ‘Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations’ 14-15 September 2023 at Ghent University, Belgium. Our panel is titled ‘Networks of Feeling in Women’s Movement Magazines‘ and we’ll be drawing on periodical studies and affect theory to think about the feelings and…
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Liberating Histories Panel Presentation
Join us on Wednesday 5th October to hear the Liberating Histories team talk about Outrage in Outwrite, Loneliness in Shrew and Hope in Red Rag magazine. This event will be live streamed at 4pm. For a link, contact Jennifer.Aston@northumbria.ac.uk. We would love to see you there!
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Activist Legacies Roundtable
The Activist Legacies Roundtable, hosted by the Women’s Library at the LSE on Thursday 22nd September provided a unique insight into feminist periodical culture from the early seventies right up to the present day.
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Activist Legacies Roundtable at the Women’s Library in September
The ‘Activist Legacies’ roundtable will discuss how feminist periodicals have shaped public sphere debate and how political ideas and feelings gain traction through the media. We will draw our inspiration from the archive of women’s movement magazines at the Women’s Library. We are delighted to confirm that Marsha Rowe (Spare Rib), Shaila Shah (Outwrite), Sally…
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Liberating Histories team at the Women’s History Network Annual Conference in September
‘A small and not so very important island’: Feminist Address in Women’s Movement Magazines 1968-1990s is the title for our session at the Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Addressing the Nation’, 2-3 September, 2022. This panel will explore forms of feminist address to the nation in Abstract To what extent did feminist magazines of the…