• 2022 Annual Conference Call for Papers

    Society for the History of Women in the Americas Annual ConferenceFriday 1st July 2022British Library, London The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomesproposals for its annual conference, co-organised with the Eccles Centre forAmerican Studies at the British Library. This year’s seminar series sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research hasfocused…

  • 2021-2022 IHR seminar series: Gender and History in the Americas Seminar

    Please note that for the first term, all seminars will be held online. Thursday 30 September 2021, 7.30-8.45pm Pamela Roberts, ‘An Evening with Mrs Terrell and Friends’. Hosted by the British Library, in collaboration with the Eccles Centre and the Society for the History of Women in the Americas. Chair: Imaobong Umoren (LSE) Please book…

  • Society for the History of Women in the Americas, 2020 Annual Conference CFP

    University of Manchester, The Ellen Wilkinson Building 3 July 2020 The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, at the University of Manchester. Founded in 2009, SHAW is dedicated to the historical investigation of women and gender in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, either…

  • 2019-2020 IHR seminar series: Gender and History in the Americas Seminar

    Please note that this year, all seminars will be held at the Women’s Library, Room RO1 (Lower ground floor of London School of Economics and Political Science. Seminars are scheduled to start at 5.30. We continue to be grateful to the Institute of Historical Research for their support of the seminar series. 22nd October 2019…

  • Reading ‘Little Women’, at the IHR on November 7th

    In a change to our previously-advertised schedule, Dr Anne Boyd Rioux (University of New Orleans) will be speaking at our November 7th seminar on ‘The Story of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women‘ as the novel nears its 150th anniversary in 2018. The paper is drawn from Dr Boyd Rioux’s book project, The Story of Little…