Fwd - Women's Library Event: Remembering Women's History. London, 26th October 2012

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 From Page to Screen: Making and Remembering Women's History. The 
Women's Library, Friday 26th October, 1pm - 6pm

Organised in support of The Women's Library Campaign, this half-day 
event celebrates women's history by exploring how it is made and remembered.

Coinciding with The Women's Library exhibition 'The long march to 
equality - treasures of The Women's Library', this event asks how 
aspects of women's history and 'the women's movement' have been 
represented and mediated at different moments in time across TWL, 
historical biographies and popular television drama.

Following an overview of TWL collections, their latest exhibition 
(Dianne Shepherd, TWL Librarian) and an update of their campaign 
(Beth Mercer, Head of TWL) June Purvis (Professor of Women's and 
Gender history) explores the biographies of Emmeline Pankhurst, while 
Helen Wheatley (Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies) 
and Vicky Ball (Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies) explore 
the way in which dramas such as Upstairs Downstairs and Shoulder to 
Shoulder also engage with histories of women and the women's 
movement. All three speakers engage with aspects of women's history 
associated with the first wave of feminism and how these are mediated 
and represented in the context of the second wave and beyond. Each 
account draws attention to which aspects of women's history are made 
and remembered and from whose perspective such histories are told.

This event has been organised by the Women's Film History Network and 
MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network and has received 
additional  sponsorship from the Centre for Research in Media and 
Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland.

The event is free to attend but places must be booked in advance via 
The Women's Library. To book a place and download a programme for the 
event please go to 
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/whats-on/events/talks.cfm

For any other information regarding the event please contact Vicky 
Ball (vicky.ball at sunderland.ac.uk).

Dr. Vicky Ball
Lecturer in Film, Media & Cultural Studies Programme Leader MAs Film, 
Media and Cultural Studies vicky.ball at sunderland.ac.uk
0191 5152100
Staff page: http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/research-staff/vicky-ball/
http://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com
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