Conference: Society for the History of Women in the Americas 2025 conference
- Date: Friday 11 July 2025, 09:30 – 17:00
- Location: Yorkshire Universities
- Type: Conferences
- Cost: £20.00-£45.00 depending on status. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shaw-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1372779714079?aff=oddtdtcreator">Please register online</a>.
The School of History and Leeds Beckett University are proud to co-host the 2025 conference of the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW).
Programme
The morning panels take place at Leeds Beckett University.
09:30: Registration
09:55-10:00 Welcome: Olivia Wright, Chair of SHAW
10:00-11:20 Panel 1: Spaces, Kinship and Connections
Chair: Genevieve Johnson
Hélène Quanquin (Université de Lille and Institut Universitaire de France): ‘Susan B. Anthony As Childless Feminist: Revisiting the U.S. History of Feminist Kinships Across Times’
Simon Morgan (Leeds Beckett University): Women’s Epistolary Networks and the Emotional Regimes of Transatlantic Abolitionism'
Chelsea D. McNutt (Cornell University): 'Acts of Care: Women Cultivating Loving Spaces of Community for One Another During the Civil Rights Era'
11:20-11:40 Break
11:40-13:00 Panel 2: Advocacy and Activism in Print
Chair: Olivia Wright
Amanda Stafford (University of Leeds): '"We didn’t know how to be together": Emotion and Place in the emergence of Radical Feminism in Atlanta’
Nicole Butler (University of Leeds): 'Gwendolyn Bennett’s Contributions and Legacy During and Beyond the Harlem Renaissance'
Sinead McEneaney (Open University): 'Organizing the Sixties: Narrating the Self'
13:00-14:10 Lunch and exhibition. During the lunch break we invite you to make your way up to the University of Leeds to visit the Animated Activism: Women Empowered Exhibition at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery.
The following panels take place at the University of Leeds.
14:10-15:00 Exhibition Panel. Please join us for a panel discussion on archiving and curating the Animated Activism: Women Empowered Exhibition.
15:00-15:10 Break
15:10-16:00 Panel 3: Reading and Uncovering Emotion
Chair: Hélène Charlery
Laura Martin (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès): 'Unveiling Enslaved Women’s Emotions: 19th-Century Enslaved Women’s Correspondence and Court Records in Comparative Perspective'
Lauren Pearl Holmes (University of Salford, Manchester): “But plants new set to be eradicate”? Representations of the Natural and Unnatural in Anne Bradstreet’s Grandmaternal Grief Poetry'
16:00-16:10 Break
16:10-17:00 Panel 4: Violent, Unpleasant, and Unruly Emotions
Chair: Sinead McEneaney
Louise Fenton (University of Wolverhampton): 'Emotionally Charged Narratives of Annie Palmer: the White Witch of Rose Hall, Jamaica'
Vivien Miller (University of Nottingham): 'Jealousy, Anger and Acid: The Violent Emotions of Unruly Western Women in the Late 19th Century'
17:00 Closing remarks. There will be an opportunity for socialising after the conference.
Location
The morning sessions (09:30-13:00) will take place at Leeds Beckett University. During the lunch break, delegates are invited to make their way to the University of Leeds, a short distance away, where the progamme will continue.
How to attend
Please register online. Ticket prices range from £20.00-£45.00, depending on status.
Acknowledgements
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas would like thank the British Association for American Studies for their generous financial assistance towards this conference, and to Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds for hosting and supporting this conference.