International Women's Day 'Teach Out'

Join us to learn about women in the visual arts on International Women's Day. In response to #ucustrikes, feminist lecturers are boycotting lecture theatres and sharing ideas with the public instead.

10.30 – 10.45
Introductions: International Women’s Day/The UCU Strike

10.45 – 11.15 Prof Karen Boyle
Weinstein and Feminist Theory

11.20 – 11.50 Dr Lisa Kelly
Women In and On Television
This session highlights women’s under-representation in the TV industry and the various ways in which they are positioned as ‘difficult’ both onscreen and behind the scenes

11.55 – 12.25 Dr Rebecca Harrison
An A-Z of Women Filmmakers, 1896-2018
In just 26 minutes, Becca will discuss 26 pioneering women filmmakers from around the world, spanning 112 years, and representing a range of cultural identities – come along to get a new, women-centred view of film history.

12.25 – 1.15 Break

1.15 – 1.45 Dr Ealasaid Munro
‘Strange transpositions': Margot Eates, Hartley Ramsden, and the 'New Movements in Art' Exhibition 1942
This talk is an examination of the often-invisible and undervalued work of female cultural intermediaries, and of the disruption of gendered and spatialised work-related identities in the mid-20th century.

1.50 – 2.20 Dr Inge Ejbye Sørensen
Body Politics and the Body Politic: Policy interventions and the case of sexual harassment in Zentropa

2.25 – 2.55 Dr Amy Holdsworth
Sisters
In this session, I’ll share the story of my sister, Alice, to think through the meanings of Disney, disability and sibling relationships in our experiences of ‘growing up’.

3 – 3.30 Dr Lizelle Bisschoff
Think you know women's films? Exploring the work of African female filmmakers