Gender and History in the Americas

Podcasts from the Gender and History in the Americas seminar

Gender and History in the Americas seminar page

2016

The (Re)Presentation of Fannie Lou Hamer: Race, Gender and Celebrity in the Civil Rights Movement
Stephen Robinson (York St. John University) 6 Jun 2016
Amish Women: Work, Life and Change
Fran Handrick (University of Birmingham) 7 Mar 2016

2015

Migration, Motherhood, and Mortality: Yellow Fever and Gender Constructions in the Deep South, 1800 to 1830
Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford) 7 Dec 2015
Gender, Identity and Itinerancy in the Transatlantic Quaker CommuPnity: the Travels and Trials of Mary West, Quaker Preacher and Missionary, 1712-1766
Naomi Pullin (University of Warwick) 2 Nov 2015
Magazines, gender, and hospitality in Canada and the US
Professor Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde) 5 Oct 2015
Women and Slavery and Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University / Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, Queen's College, Oxford University) 2 Mar 2015

2013

The Woman Who Changed Nixon: LaDonna Harris's Lessons on How Small Nations Can Successfully Relate to Entrenched Power
Joy Porter (University of Hull) 2 Dec 2013
The Influence of Architecture in Cold War Literature
Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University & Goldsmiths University of London) 4 Nov 2013
In conversation: Jay Kleinberg and Jessie Ramey on gender and social policy in the US, 1880-2000
Jay Kleinberg (Brunel) and Jessie Ramey (University of Pittsburgh) 28 Jun 2013
A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince's Travels to Jamaica in 1840
Beverley Duguid (Royal Holloway, University of London) 4 Feb 2013
Mistreated and Molested: Jailhouse Violence and the Civil Rights Movement
Althea Legal-Miller (Independent Scholar) 7 Jan 2013

2012

Ladies, legislation and letters to Lester Pearson: policy and debates about married women's right to work in Canada, 1945-1970
Helen Glew (University of Westminster) 3 Dec 2012
Cigars and Politics: An Intersectional and Transnational Approach to Cuban Women's Immigration and Work in the United States, 1880-2000
Jay Kleinberg (Brunel University) 1 Oct 2012