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Women’s Study Group Seminar Series The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 is a small, informal, multidisciplinary group formed to promote women’s studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century. Since it was established in the early 1980s, the group has enabled those interested in women’s and gender studies to keep in touch, to hear about one another’s research and publications, and to meet regularly to discuss topics of relevance. The WSG holds a regular seminar series which takes place at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. Seminars take place on the third Saturday of September, November, January, and March, between 1 and 4pm. Doors open at 12.30pm, and there is a break for tea and coffee halfway through the session. There are usually three speakers per seminar, and we start promptly so as to give time for supportive feedback and discussion from members. Seminars are free and open to the public though non-members will be asked to make a donation of £2 for refreshments. Please find details about the upcoming seminar series below. The WSG also invites papers formal and informal, as well as works-in-progress, on any topic related to early modern and long eighteenth-century women’s and gender studies, be it literature, medicine, art, music, theatre, religion, economics, sexuality, and so on. Early career and independent scholars are particularly welcome. We put out a call for papers every February through August but if you would like to be considered as a speaker please contact the Seminars Organiser, Dr Carolyn Williams. For more information, please visit http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/ or our Twitter page: @WSGUK ________ Saturday 21st January, 2017. Chair: Lois Chaber Charlotte Young: “Our Wives you find at Goldsmiths Hall”: Women and sequestration during the English Civil War. Helen Draper: Mary Beale and the Performance of Friendship. Mascha Hansen: Beyond Marriage: Envisioning the Future in Women’s Writings, 1660-1830. _______ Saturday 18th March, 2017 (works in progress). Chair: TBC Madeleine Pelling: “That Noble Possessor”: The Pursuit of Virtuous Knowledge and its Materials in the Collection of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785). Erica Buurman: Almack’s ballroom and the introduction of European dances. Angela Escott: Hannah Cowley’s “dramatic talents” employed in her epic poem of the Napoleonic Wars, The Siege of Acre (1801). ********************************************************* British Association for Romantic Studies http://www.bars.ac.uk<http://www.bars.ac.uk/> To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please contact Neil Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> Also use this address to register any change in your e-mail address, or to be removed from the list. Messages are held in archives, along with other information about the Mailbase at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html *********************************************************