Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750 - 1950
Saturday 9 February 2019, 9.30am – 5.30pm
Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London
Keynote Speakers: Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Dr Patricia Zakreski
Call for papers
‘Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750 – 1950’ is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and organised by Collaborative Doctoral Partnership students Erika Lederman (De Montfort University/V&A) Hannah Lyons (Birkbeck, University of London/ V&A) and George Mind (University of Westminster/National Portrait Gallery). This symposium adds to the growing body of feminist scholarship that is deconstructing the male-dominated history of commercial and industrial artistic production. The programme will bring together current interdisciplinary perspectiveson women’s experiences of work and the gendered machinations of commerce in the creative industries in Britain between 1750 and 1950. We invite critical and creative papers as well as those that present case-studies or deliver in more collaborative formats. Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to, women at work or women’s involvement in the development of technologies i.e printmaking, photography, film and computing, women’s work in textiles (including dressmaking and millinery), design, architecture, advertising, bookmaking and publishing, the performing arts, music, TV and radio.
We are particularly interested in papers that consider the following topics:
• Spaces of women’s work: the workshop, the studio, the office, the factory, and work carried out from home (i.e. sweated trades)
• Overlaps in women’s professional and domestic roles
• Collaboration, networks and unions of women workers in the creative industries
• Women’s management of finances and the economic factors of their work
• Women’s experiences of discrimination in the workplace in this period
• Anonymity or invisibility of women’s work and theft of their intellectual property
• Demands of emotional labour in the creative industries
• Distinctions and slippages between professional and amateur ‘work’
• Historiographies of women’s work in the creative industries
• Portrayals of professional women in literature and the visual arts
• How the campaign for suffrage intersected with, or affected, women’s work in the creative industries.
We invite abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers. Please submit abstracts and a short biographical note to Erika Lederman, Hannah Lyons and George Mind at [log in to unmask] by 6pm on Friday 30th November 2018.
Georgina Mind
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Student
National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place London WC2H 0HE
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Prof. Dr. Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA PhD FHEA
Professor of Design History <http://www.go.herts.ac.uk/grace_lees-maffei>, School of Creative Arts
Programme Director DHeritage <http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/doctorate-in-heritage> the Professional Doctorate in Heritage, School of Humanities
Chair Researcher Development Working Group <http://www.herts.ac.uk/research/research-development/researcher-development-working-group>, Office of the Vice Chancellor
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK, [log in to unmask]
Book Series Editor, Cultural Histories of Design <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/cultural-histories-of-design/>
Author, Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945 <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415656696/>
Editor, Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things <http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/iconic-designs-9780857853523/> and Writing Design: Words and Objects <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Design-Objects-Grace-Lees-Maffei/dp/1847889557/>
Co-Editor, Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization <http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=FallanDesigning>;
Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design <http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/made-in-italy-9780857853899/> and The Design History Reader <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-History-Reader-Grace-Lees-Maffei/dp/1847883893>.
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