Dear all,

 

With the Birkbeck Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, we are organising a two-day conference on the 22^nd and the 23^rd May to be held at the Houses of  Parliament: ‘A Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Looking back, moving forward’.

 

The exact details of the programme are still being finalised, but we wanted to encourage anyone who is interested in attending to ‘save the date’ for this upcoming event.

 

A brief overview is provided below and more information and registration details will be forwarded in the coming weeks.

 

Best,

Jennifer and Orly

 

A Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Looking back, moving forward

A two-day conference in the Houses of Parliament hosted by the Birkbeck Centre for the Study of British Politics & Public Life and the Political Studies Association Women and Politics Specialist Group

 

Tuesday 22^nd May – Wednesday 23^rd May

 

Panels will include:

 

Situating Women’s Suffrage

Dr. Sumita Mukherjee -  University of Bristol

Professor Krista Cowman – University of Lincolm

Professor Louise Ryan –  University of Sheffield

Professor Karen Hunt – Keele University

 

Feminising politics in the contemporary United Kingdom

Dr Diana Stirbu – London Metropolitan University

Professor Fiona Mackay – University of Edinburgh

Professor Rosie Campbell – Birkbeck University

Dr Orly Siow - UCL

Dr Leah Culhane – University of Manchester

 

In Conversation with Maria Miller MP and Dawn Butler MP

 

The Future of Gender Equality in the United Kingdom

Vivienne Hayes – Women’s Resource Centre

Dr Sue Milner – University of Bath

Dr Toni Haastrup – University of Kent

Professor Roberta Guerinna – University of Surrey

 

Acting on Gender Equality within the House: Representing Women

Alison Thewliss MP

Baroness Fiona Hodgson

Craig Tracey MP

Gavin Newlands MP

Stella Creasy MP

 

 

 

Dr Jennifer Thomson

Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies

University of Bath

 

Co-Convener of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group

 

@jencthomson | [log in to unmask] | (+44)1225 385912

 

Most recent publications:

 

‘Can abortion rights be integrated into the Women, Peace and Security agenda?’ with Claire Pierson: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2017.1413583

 

‘Resisting gendered change: feminist institutionalism and critical actors’: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512116677844