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'Modern' women of the past? Unearthing gender and antiquity.AWAWS, AAIA, CCANESA, CCWM and the University of Sydney Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History are hosting an online conference on Modern Women of the Past? Unearthing Gender and Antiquity, to be held over 5-6 March 2021, ahead of this year's International Women’s Day (8 March 2021).
Keynote Lecture |
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| This keynote provides a perspective from the UK and Europe on how preventing women’s access to academia and the heritage sector, both historically, and in our contemporary workplace culture, has impacted our understanding of women in the past. We discover the irony that, under the banner of objective practice, late twentieth century archaeologists actively erased past women, or wrote them specifically into domestic roles. We investigate the mechanism through which scholars sought to undermine women’s authority in the past, and in the writing too of disciplinary histories, in favour of patriarchal mythmaking, and how that practice lingers on today. We see how a generation of young scholars had to fight to correct this inherited academic problem in archaeological practice, outside the mainstream, and how a new generation of scholars are now working beyond binary, developing applied method in gender archaeology, to discover the past more as it was, and less in our making. |  |
Speaker: Dr Rachel Pope, Senior Lecturer in European Prehistory, Liverpool University, Founder and a Director of British Women Archaeologists.
When: 7.45pm (AEDT) Friday 5th March
Note: Speaker will be presenting from Liverpool, UK at 8.45am GMT, Friday 5th March.
RSVP: Click here to register via eventbrite
When: 7.45pm (AEDT) Friday 5th March
Note: Speaker will be presenting from Liverpool, UK at 8.45am GMT, Friday 5th March.
RSVP: Click here to register via eventbrite
Keynote Lecture
"Where are the Women in Eternity?" by Professor Gina Walker
| Where are the Women in Eternity juxtaposes the stark reality of millennia of ignorance about earlier female figures and their authority as knowers in the context of sixty years of contemporary Feminist Historical Recovery that ‘Modern’ Women of the Past? Unearthing Gender and Antiquity celebrates. I describe The New Historia initiative which I direct at The New School with a global collaborative of researchers who are producing authoritative “female biographies” of attested female figures on various platforms for new audiences. I ask, does the avalanche of fresh data about women demand new knowledge-ordering systems that for the first time include a female dimension? |  |
Speaker: Professor Gina Walker, Professor of Women's Studies and Director of The Center for The New Historia, The New School.
When: 9.30am (AEDT) Saturday 6th March
Note: Speaker will be presenting from New York, USA at 5.30pm EST, Friday 5th March.
RSVP: Click here to register via eventbrite
When: 9.30am (AEDT) Saturday 6th March
Note: Speaker will be presenting from New York, USA at 5.30pm EST, Friday 5th March.
RSVP: Click here to register via eventbrite
Contact us
If you have any questions about the conference or our key note lectures you can contact the conference convenors via unearthingwomen@gmail.com
The AWAWS ASCS members meeting will be held online Thursday, February 4th at 12.00 midday AEST.
In the meeting we will briefly report on our activities during the past year, announce the winner of our Annual Research grant and, most importantly, hear from you about what you’d like to see the organization do in 2021!
If you haven't renewed your membership for AWAWS now is the time to do so! Renew your membership online.
Normally we hold during ASCS conference, but to avoid zoom fatigue we are a week ahead this year.
Links to join via Zoom will be sent directly to members via email. If you have not received a link, or have questions about your membership, please email us socawaws@gmail.com
In the meeting we will briefly report on our activities during the past year, announce the winner of our Annual Research grant and, most importantly, hear from you about what you’d like to see the organization do in 2021!
If you haven't renewed your membership for AWAWS now is the time to do so! Renew your membership online.
Normally we hold during ASCS conference, but to avoid zoom fatigue we are a week ahead this year.
Links to join via Zoom will be sent directly to members via email. If you have not received a link, or have questions about your membership, please email us socawaws@gmail.com
Detail of wall painting from Tomb-chapel of Nebamun, circa 1350BC. British Museum EA37986
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