Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) (Web)

Venue: Oxford, UK
Time: 26-27th of September
Proposals by 10th of August 2016

Following the workshop held in May 2016 the next event will be a two-day conference bring together graduate and early career researchers alongside senior scholars to explore the ways in which women’s local, national and international networks helped to facilitate equality, drive political, economic, cultural and social change, and challenge overlapping systems of oppression over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• During the conference, there will be two keynote lectures by economist and writer Devaki Jain and the William B. Ransford, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University Farah Jasmine Griffin.

During the conference, there will also be a roundtable discussion about the role of networking for the development of graduate and early career researchers academic careers.

The organizers welcome papers from those in the humanities and social sciences especially graduate students and early career researchers. Topics on networks to be covered may include, but are not limited to, the following: Read more and source … (Web)