[ecrea] 'From Page to Screen: Making and Remembering Women¹s History'

***Apologies for cross-posting*

*From Page to Screen: Making and Remembering Women's History*

*The Women's Library*

*Friday 26^th October, 1-6pm*

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 and Television 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) <mailto:(vicky.ball /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)>).


Best wishes

Vicky


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/