Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) of Aix-Marseille Universitéand supported by the Aix-Marseille Initiative d’Excellence (A*MIDEX) (Web)

Time: 07.-11.06.2020
Venue: virtual space, via Aix-en-Provence, France
Proposals by: 08.02.2021
The keynote speaker
Sharon Crozier-de Rosa (Univ. of Wollongong), co-author of „Remembering Women’s Activism“ (Routledge, 2019)
The new format: A „slow“ international e-conference
This conference was originally due to take place in May 2020 in Aix-en-Provence, France. It was to bring together colleagues from Europe, the USA and Australia. As a result of the COVID pandemic, it has had to be both postponed by a year and moved online. Read more about the new format … (Web)
The call for papers
On April 24th 2018, suffragist leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett became the first woman to be honoured with a permanent statue in Parliament Square, one hundred and eighty six years after George Canning, the first of her 11 male predecessors. The unveiling was the culmination of a two-year campaign initiated by activist Caroline Criado Perez. The choice of Fawcett sparked vigorous debate amongst activists and academics alike. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the coming centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment has inspired #Monumental Women, a grassroots organization, to mount a campaign for the commissioning of a statue honouring the suffrage leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This campaign also triggered vigorous accusations that the monument would “white wash” the suffrage past, accusations which resulted in the decision to add the African-American leader Sojourner Truth to the monument. It was … read more at the Website (please scroll down a little)
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