Conference Programme

Sisterhood in Action, CWS at 40!

The Ninth edition of the Sisterhood in Action conference is an event by and for the CWS community. This year the conference will take place in the Treehouse Berrick House Saul Building. Please find more details below.

March 8th, 2024

9.00 - 9.30 Arrival and coffee

9.30 - 9.45 Introduction

9.45 - 10.15 Icebreaker 

10.15 - 11.00 Keynote Speaker: Dr Patricia Hamilton, Lecturer in Sociology 

11.00 - 12.00 Panel 1: The Possibilities of Feminist Self-expression

Chaired by Anxos Pérez Fernández 

• Daisy McManaman: “I’m a Barbie Girl” Exploring the complications and contradictions of Barbie’s construction of femininity.

• Alice Myers: The power of the personal in influencer culture: considering feminist scholarship on confession.

• Lizzie Merrill: Towards a collaborative analysis of artwork and metaphor.

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.00 Panel 2: Feminist Adventures in 'World'-Travelling

Chaired by Paola Castillo Conde 

• Charlotte Oakes: ‘Frauen hört, hört das Hexengeflüster’*: The casting of sensory connections between the Neue Frauenbewegung and a transnational network of feminist witches.

• Alice Flinta: All the things we gain: Self-translation and Translingual Empowerment in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Writings in Italian.

• Yang Wu: 'Wave' in feminist histories: narrative, time, space and ‘world’-travelling.

14.00 - 15.00 Table Talks 

15:00 - 15.45 40 Years of CWS: Reflections from Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor and Professor Stevi Jackson

15.45 - 16.00  Final thoughts

16.00 - 16.30 Break

16:30 - 18:30 Open Mic