Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE' The intention is to contest and challenge singular perspectives on power as the ability to enact change, while also reassessing present concentration on gendered analysis as the primary way of understanding women’s actions in the past. The conference will be hosted in a hybrid format. Online attendance is free, but please register in order to receive access details closer to the time. Confirmed speakers Dr Christina Laffin (University of British Colombia, Canada) Professor Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford) Professor Nadia El Cheikh (American University of Beirut) Dr Charles Insley (University of Manchester) Dr Anna Kelley (University of St Andrews) Professor Grzegorz Pac (University of Warsaw) Rabbi Dr Tali Artman Partock (Leo Baeck College; University of Leicester) Dr Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary University London) Programme You can view and download a PDF of the Conference Programme below. Document Conference: Shifting Paradigms - Programme (825.94 KB / PDF) Contact To get in touch with the conference organisers, Dr Emily Joan Ward (Edinburgh) and Dr Megan Welton (Queen's University), please contact: shifting.paradigms.conf@gmail.com This conference is generously supported by the following: The University of Edinburgh; Queen’s University, Canada; University of Rochester; The Haskins Society; The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Image Feb 22 2024 00.00 - Feb 23 2024 23.59 Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE' This conference aims to recalibrate how we study women in western Europe, the Islamic worlds, and Byzantium across the Middle Ages, revealing the manifold ways women shaped and were shaped by overlapping discourses of power. London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame in London, 1–4 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG, London, UK Booking
Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE' The intention is to contest and challenge singular perspectives on power as the ability to enact change, while also reassessing present concentration on gendered analysis as the primary way of understanding women’s actions in the past. The conference will be hosted in a hybrid format. Online attendance is free, but please register in order to receive access details closer to the time. Confirmed speakers Dr Christina Laffin (University of British Colombia, Canada) Professor Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford) Professor Nadia El Cheikh (American University of Beirut) Dr Charles Insley (University of Manchester) Dr Anna Kelley (University of St Andrews) Professor Grzegorz Pac (University of Warsaw) Rabbi Dr Tali Artman Partock (Leo Baeck College; University of Leicester) Dr Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary University London) Programme You can view and download a PDF of the Conference Programme below. Document Conference: Shifting Paradigms - Programme (825.94 KB / PDF) Contact To get in touch with the conference organisers, Dr Emily Joan Ward (Edinburgh) and Dr Megan Welton (Queen's University), please contact: shifting.paradigms.conf@gmail.com This conference is generously supported by the following: The University of Edinburgh; Queen’s University, Canada; University of Rochester; The Haskins Society; The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Image Feb 22 2024 00.00 - Feb 23 2024 23.59 Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE' This conference aims to recalibrate how we study women in western Europe, the Islamic worlds, and Byzantium across the Middle Ages, revealing the manifold ways women shaped and were shaped by overlapping discourses of power. London Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame in London, 1–4 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG, London, UK Booking
Feb 22 2024 00.00 - Feb 23 2024 23.59 Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE' This conference aims to recalibrate how we study women in western Europe, the Islamic worlds, and Byzantium across the Middle Ages, revealing the manifold ways women shaped and were shaped by overlapping discourses of power.
