A Woman's Place Grassroots Conference
Sat 17 March 2018, 09:30 – 17:00 GMT

Free

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Why Now?
2018 marks the centenary of the first women (over 30 and meeting the property owning criteria) winning the right to vote in General Elections. Vox Feminarum: Women's Voices together with the Heritage Lottery Fund, our hosts the University of Derby and other partners examine, remember and celebrate the place of women past and present.
Conference Themes:
A Woman's Place in Art, Politics, Science and Religion
A Woman's Place in Grassroots Activism
The Suffrage Movement 1866 - 1928
The Women's Liberation Movement 1960s Onwards
Researching Women's Individual and Collective Histories
Confirmed Speakers:
Speakers, presenters and facilittaors will include community organisers/activists academic and indeopendenet scholars.
Prof Antonia Bilfuco, University of Middlesex - Personal Histories The Impact of Past Trauma on the Present;

Vanessa Boon, Chair International Woman's Day Derby and HERSTORY Derby;

Sarah Chubb Archives Manager Derbyshire Records Office, Matlock;

Joanna Czechowska, author The Black Madonna of Derby and Sweetest Enemy;

Suzie Litton-Wood Awakening The Goddess;

Dr Sarah Richardson University of Warwick - The Women's Suffrage Movement;

Ruth Ricardhson Director The Multi-Faith Centre - Working Class Women

Dr Catrin Rutland, University of Nottingham - Women in Science;

Maggie Slingsby - Women in Art;

Christina Smith - Derby Unity - A Woman's Place in Religion

Karen Whelan - Activist Disabled People Against The Cuts (DPAC) Derby

Prof Cecile Wright - The Place of Women in Politics

Other amazing speakers and contributors are yet to confirm.....

What Will You Gain:
An insight into the lives, contributions and place of women from suffrage to the present and some of the personal and collective histories and social-political activism which underpins it all. Come Join us

Book tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-grassroots-conference-tickets-38582849341

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