HAPP Athena Swan International Women’s Day Seminar Series 2025
The HAPP Athena Swan Committee is delighted to invite you to the 2025 International Women’s Day Seminar Series.
This event provides students from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics with the opportunity to present their research and engage in meaningful discussions on diversity, inclusion, and representation in academia.
Event Details
Date: Monday 3rd March 2025
Time: 9.00am - 12,00pm
Theme
This year’s theme, "Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Academia," will explore inclusive methodologies, decolonizing narratives, and amplifying underrepresented voices in academic research.
Speakers
🎤 Emma Taylor (LLB Law with Politics) – “Strange, heroic and self-sacrificing”: Newspaper Representations of Female Soldiers during the American Civil War
🎤 Katie Macdonald Smith (PhD History) – ‘Instead of Teaching Fear of Pregnancy, We Should Teach Fear of Childlessness’: Mobilising Crisis Politics in ‘Coercive Pronatalist’ Narratives
🎤 Brianna Griesinger (PhD Anthropology) – Audio-visual Ethnography: Feminist Praxis in the Field
🎤 Hannah Bevan-Woolley (MA Anthropology) – Beyond Language: Inclusive Methodologies to Engage with Disabled Ways of Knowing
This seminar series provides a supportive and inclusive space for students to share their research, exchange ideas, and foster interdisciplinary connections.
Interested in attending? Register here