Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Since 2017, the School has hosted an Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, usually held in March on or close to International Women’s Day. Our speakers research expertise and publications span around a millennium of history, across many different geographical settings.

8th Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2024
Wednesday 8 March 2024, International Women's Day, 12.15pm in Parliament Hall.  
Professor Blossom Stephaniw (University of Oslo): 
'Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women'

7th Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2023
Wednesday 8 March 2023, International Women's Day, 5.30 pm in Parliament Hall.  
Dr Leila Alikarami, Associate Member of the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, University of London
'Beyond the veil: Discrimination against Women and the Struggle for Gender Equality in Iran from the Revolution to the Mahsa Amini Movement'.

6th Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2022
Dr Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide spoke on ' Intergenerational Emotions and the Making of History'.

5th Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
Professor Charu Gupta, University of Delhi
'Vernacular Registers of Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India'.

4th Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2020
Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh ‘Gender history, Global history, and Atlantic slavery’.

3rd Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2019
Professor Dame Janet Nelson
'Presenting a Wider Public with the History of Early Medieval Gender'.

2nd Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2018
Professor Elaine Chalus, Professor of History, University of Liverpool
‘‘My Dearest Tussy’: Coping with Separation during the Napoleonic Wars — the Fremantle Papers, c.1800–14’.

1st Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2017
Professor Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
‘Intimate citizenship: what difference have social movements made?’.