Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Roundtable

Seminar held at the University of Oxford, 16 November 2016.

Gender and Authority Seminar 7: Serena Alessi (British School at Rome) and Rachel Delman (University of Oxford). Music: 'Enigmatic' by bensound.com

The Gender and Authority TORCH Network, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity, hosted a roundtable discussion at Balliol College on 2 November 2016. It was on the continuities, differences, and comparative advantages of framing one's research in terms of 'Gender studies' or 'Women's studies’. The roundtable, featuring speakers from a range of University of Oxford faculties, programmes, and research networks, addresses a series of questions on the methodological continuities, divergences and complementarity of 'Gender Studies' and 'Women's Studies'.

Gender and Authority Seminar 4: Sahba Shayani (University of Oxford) and Victoria Van Hyning (University of Oxford). The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its fourth Seminar on 19 October at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Speakers were Sahba Shayani (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford), who will be presenting on 'The Confirmation of Gender & Authority through Literary Imitation: Poems Attributed to Ṭāhere Qorrat al-'Ayn’ and Victoria Van Hyning who will be presenting on 'Subsumed Autobiography: English Convent Self-Writing' (English Faculty, University of Oxford). Here an extract of Victoria Van Hyning’s presentation. Contacts: Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley [email protected] https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority @WomenCanonOx

Gender and Authority Seminar 3: Lynn Ellen Burkett (Western Caroline University) and Alexis Brown (University of Oxford). The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its third Seminar on 1st June at Somerville College, University of Oxford. The seminar focuses on the representations of women and women's cultural interests in popular outlets. We hear from Lyn Ellen Burkett (Western Carolina University) on ‘Teena and the Musical Canon: Music in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1953′ and Alexis Brown (University of Oxford) on ‘Lady Lazarus: Textual Authority in Christine Jeff’s Sylvia (2003)’. The recording has been edited to remove copyright material from the opening of the film Sylvia (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/film/sylvia/gallery/), which itself features a text which recalled but did not reproduce copyright material from Sylvia Plath's own works. Contacts: Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley [email protected] https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority @WomenCanonOx

TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 1 featuring Mary Harrod and Susan Garrard. The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its first Seminar on March 2 at Balliol College, University of Oxford. The two speakers are: Mary Harrod (University of Warwick), ‘Cine-filles: Genre, Pastiche and Contemporary Popular Women’s Filmmaking in France’ Susan Garrard (University of St Andrews), ‘Searching for arcadia: reimagining the working-class pastoral fantasy in the poetry of factory-girl, Fanny Forrester, 1868-1882’ Contacts: Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley [email protected] https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority @WomenCanonOx

Gender and Authority Seminar 2: Amy Donovan Blondell, ‘Gender, Self-determination and Authority: Homeless Young Women Navigate Life on the Road’. The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its second Seminar on May 11 at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Here an extract from the seminar featuring Amy Donovan Blondell (University of Oxford), ‘Gender, Self-determination and Authority: Homeless Young Women Navigate Life on the Road’. Contacts: Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley [email protected] https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority @WomenCanonOx