Please see below for information about an event which will be of interest to WHS members as part of the Women’s Festival in Dundee in March. It sees presentations by WHS Convener Alison McCall, previous essay prize winner Nel Whiting, and PhD student Fiona MacHugh give presentations on their work. This is accompanied by a creative writing workshop and should prove to be a fascinating and stimulating day! Please contact Literary Dundee with any queries about this event or to book.
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives
Saturday 1st March 2014, 10am – 4pm
River Room 3, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate
Dundee International Women’s Festival
University of Dundee – MLitt Gender, Culture and Society and MLitt Writing Practice and Study
10.00 – 10.30 Arrival and Registration
10.30 – 10.40 Welcome
10.40 – 11.00 Fiona McHugh – The Wandering Womb: Tales from the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum and the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 1851-1900
11.00 – 11.10 Questions/discussion
11.10 – 11.25 Tea/coffee
11.25 – 11.45 Nel Whiting – The “honourable situation”: motherhood in late C18th family portraiture.
11.45 – 11.55 Questions/ discussion
11.55 – 12.15 Alison McCall – Scholarship, Suffrage and Civic Duty. Some of Brown Street School’s Female Teachers 1872-1920.
12.15 – 12.25 Questions and discussion
12.25 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 1.25 Introduction to Writing Practice and Study
1.25 – 3.00 Writing workshop, led by Lindsay McGregor, Beth McDonough and Nikki Robson, using women’s stories and images from the morning session (materials provided)
3.00 – 3.15 Tea/coffee break
3.15 – 3.45 Readings
3.45 – 3.50 Final Remarks
For more information and to reserve a place, please go to: www.literarydundee.co.uk
or in person at Literary Dundee, 6th Floor, Tower Building, Nethergate, University of Dundee
or email: literarydundee@gmail.com