A Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
Saturday 27 April 2019, 09.30am - 5.00pm,
Woburn Suite, Senate House
On the 260th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft’s birth, take part in a celebration of her life, her writings and her legacy. There will be discussion of the relevance of Wollstonecraft’s ideas today, new directions in research and gaps in the archive, and exciting plans for networks and societies.
Activists, enthusiasts, students and scholars - all welcome.
You can register at: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/celebration-mary-wollstonecraft-1759-1797
Confirmed Speakers:
Shrabani Basu, Victoria & Abdul
Professor Emma Clery, editor, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Fictional Works (forthcoming)
Dr Alan Coffee, editor, The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft
Dr Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early Modern Philosophy
Professor Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Dr Rachel Hewitt, A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Dr Laura Kirkley, The Cosmopolitanism of Mary Wollstonecraft (forthcoming)
Dr Andrew McInnes, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period
Bee Rowlatt, In Search of Mary: The Mother of All Journeys
Professor Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life
Sylvana Tomaselli, editor, Cambridge Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
There is limited availability for free walking tours of Wollstonecraft's Bloomsbury and Wollstonecraft's Somers Town with Roberta Wedge (Mary on the Green Campaign). Book early!
The event is held in association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, London, with the support of the University of Southampton and the Mary on the Green Campaign.
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