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New from the Women\u2019s Academic Network \u2013 forthcoming semester 2 events<\/h2>\n

Uncategorized<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Sara Ashencaen Crabtree<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

The Women\u2019s Academic Network (WAN) has been a not-so-quietly growing feature of academic life at BU since September 2013. For many women academics (those in the know) it offers an annual programme of events, activities and career support in a vibrant and open or lively and confidential environment. Sometimes these events are geared specifically for women academics and women PGR, but many are open-to-all colleagues and students.<\/p>\n

The success of WAN, being non-corporate, depends very heavily upon the hard work of its co-convenors galvanised by the wider goodwill and enthusiasm of women colleagues. Plus we have a small but invaluable annual budget to run operations \u2013 thank you ULT! But despite having 24 hours written into the WAN co-convenor yearly workload allocation (nowhere near enough, believe me) we sometimes struggle to get the message out about our great events, to advertise membership to women colleagues (especially new colleagues to BU), and to effectively manage our rather clunky, home-made communication systems.<\/p>\n

But things are changing! We hope to have our own BU webpage at long last, to revive and update our languishing Facebook page, keep up the tweets and to create real posters round BU to promote events. Through these means we plan to reach out more effectively to all those people who may not know that there is a forum here of like-minded, pro-women colleagues for every faculty and corner of BU. It\u2019s called WAN. Because as one of our keen member\u2019s has just expressed it, \u2018WAN is the most collegiate forum at BU\u2019. We think so too.<\/p>\n

So here is a handy list of upcoming WAN events for your diaries, where we hope to see more colleagues interested in supporting and\/or joining our ever-expanding network:<\/p>\n

March 8, 2018 International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) with WAN, 12.00-15.00, Fusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a number of IWD events going on at BU every year. Here is ours for 2018 which is open-to-all:<\/p>\n

SPEAKER EVENTS FOR IWD:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Josie Fraser (she of the \u2018In the Valley of the Trolls\u2019 talk) speaking about the online harassment of girls and women.\u00a0Title:<\/em>\u00a0\u2018Speaking Out Online: \u201call your base are belong to us\u2026\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

BU\u2019s Dr Sue Sutherland\u2019s research documentary\u00a0Village Tales<\/em>, which used film techniques as participatory research methodologies with village women in India to self-document their lives.<\/p>\n

Plus Professor Gr\u00e1inne Conole (HEA, National Teaching Fellow) candidly telling us about her amazing and challenging journey to being a 4* international professor. Facilitator Professor Debbie Holley of CEL. \u00a0Title TBA.<\/p>\n

Lunchtime refreshments served.<\/p>\n

Register at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/womens-academic-network-international-womens-day-tickets-40100804586<\/a><\/p>\n

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SPEAKER EVENT (open-to-all) \u2013 April 19, 17.00-19.00 pm, EBC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Girls Interrupted: Young women\u2019s life stories reflecting on growing up in Post-Katrina New Orleans and the impacts on their gender identities and sexualities\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr Lisa Overton, Lecturer Politics at Middlesex University and Course Convenor for War, Conflict and Development at Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n

This ethnographic study draws on gender and disaster scholarship, feminist trans\/methodology and queer theories to explore how growing up after Hurricane Katrina affected young women\u2019s life course, particularly their gender and sexual identities.<\/p>\n

Drinks and canap\u00e9 reception.<\/p>\n

Register at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/wan-speaker-eventgirls-interrupted-young-womens-life-stories-reflecting-on-growing-up-in-post-tickets-43165392852#tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

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SPEAKER EVENT (open-to-all) \u2013 April 26, 12.00-14.00, LAWRENCE Lecture Theatre, Talbot<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Helen Fry<\/p>\n

Title: \u2018<\/strong>Historian Dr Helen Fry unwraps \u201cA very secret war: Bugging the Nazis in WWII\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

During WW2, British intelligence bugged the conversations of over 10,000 German prisoners-of-war at three clandestine stately houses. Trent Park in north London was reserved for Hitler\u2019s Generals and in an astonishing turn of events, they were housed in luxurious conditions and were lulled into a false sense of security. By the end of the war, there were 59 German generals under one roof. They relaxed and became unguarded in their conversations, and inadvertently gave away from of Hitler\u2019s most closely guarded secrets.<\/p>\n

(see also Guardian article by Helen on this topic, 17 Feb 2018)<\/p>\n

Lunchtime refreshments.<\/p>\n

Register at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/historian-dr-helen-fry-unwraps-a-very-secret-war-bugging-the-nazis-in-wwii-tickets-42281992578<\/a><\/p>\n

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SPEAKER EVENT \u2013 May. Full details: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Professor Rosalind Gill, City University London<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018The Cult(ure) of Confidence, a critique of the \u2018Lean In\u2019 messages aimed at women to explain their failure to reach the upper echelons of every aspect of society.<\/p>\n

About the speaker: Professor Gill is known for her research interests in gender and media, cultural and creative work, and mediated intimacy. For the last decade she has made a significant contribution to debates about the \u2018sexualization of culture\u2019. She enters this contested and polarized field bringing an emphasis upon difference \u2013 particularly the ways in which differently located groups are positioned by and in relation to sexualization \u2013 and upon new ways of thinking about the relationship between culture and subjectivity \u2013 how what is \u201cout there\u201d gets \u2018in here; to shape our sense of self.<\/p>\n

Registration pending<\/strong>. For further queries please contact WAN co-convenor Dr Frances Hawkhead\u00a0fhawkhead@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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WAN SECOND RESEARCH SEMINAR, May 23, 1-day event<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Second Women\u2019s Academic Network Research Seminar: \u2018Reclaiming the academy: Scholarship, gender and consumerism\u2019.<\/p>\n

By popular demand we are holding the second WAN seminar, which is open to all BU colleagues, PGR and external academics. The theme of this year\u2019s seminar focuses on the transitions of the academy in neo-liberal politicised spaces and how these are influencing the roles and expectations of academics and students, with a particular focus on women and scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Keynote speakers<\/strong>: Professors Maggie Berg (Queen\u2019s University, Canada) and Barbara Seeber (Brock University, Canada), authors of the\u00a0Slow Professor: Challenging the culture of speed in the academy.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Call for papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

We invite papers that relate to the above theme as well as papers that focus on gender-based research and\/or are sponsored by WAN (open-to-all)<\/p>\n

Deadline for submission of abstracts for consideration is March 9, 2018. \u00a0Please submit abstracts to WAN co-convenor Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree at\u00a0scrabtree@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Register at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-second-womens-academic-network-research-seminar-reclaiming-the-academy-scholarship-gender-and-tickets-41105120522<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally if you want to know more about WAN or would like to join the network, please contact any of the WAN co-convenors:<\/p>\n

Dr Frances Hawkhead,\u00a0Dr Lorraine Brown, \u00a0Dr Jayne Caudwell or Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree<\/p>\n

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