Events
Here are some event related blog posts from panels, workshops and conferences we have organised or attended during the project. You can find information about our first Activist Legacies Roundtable held in October 2022, the second Activist Legacies Roundtable event in May 2023 and other workshops and conferences from the “Events” menu in the navigation at the top of the page.
Join us on Thursday 25th May to discuss the legacies of feminist print magazines in the digital age!
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…
Continue Reading Rewired and revamped? Media & trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond
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)?…
Continue Reading CALL FOR PAPERS! Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition
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…
Continue Reading International Women’s Day in Feminist Magazines: A Short but Radical History
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…
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! Cartoon, Red Rag, 5 (1973), p. 7.