A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies.
To be held at Plymouth University, 29-31 August 2013.
This conference investigates gender and political culture during the period 1400 to 1800. Themes explored include the relationship between gender, power and political authority; gendered aspects of monarchy; representations of power and authority; gender, office-holding, policy-making and counsel; courts, patronage and political influence; elite culture and political networks; gender, the public sphere and political participation; popular politics, protest and petitioning; manuscript, print, oral, material and visual cultures; news, intelligence and the spread of information; political ideas, ideologies and language; conceptualizations of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres and what constituted ‘power’ and ‘politics’; the family as a ‘political unit’; the politicization of social activities: marriage-arranging, placing children in other households, gift-giving, hospitality and letter-writing.
The keynote Speakers are Professor Barbara J. Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
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Source de l’information : Plymouth University
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