"A thing inexpedient and immodest": Women in the University of Oxford's School of Geography
This event forms part of the University’s celebrations marking 100 years since women were first permitted to take degrees in Oxford. Dr Elizabeth Baigent, Reader in the History of Geography at the University of Oxford and former Research Director of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, uncovers the contribution of women to Oxford’s School of Geography – an institution whose history is generally told in terms of historic male endeavour. By uncovering the lives of women staff and students from the establishment of the School at the end of the nineteenth century, Liz explores the varied contributions of the School’s women and their connections with wider movements such as women’s suffrage – as well as asking why we have until now regarded them as marginal and unimportant.
Date:
16 October 2020, 13:30 (Friday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue:
Venue to be announced
Speaker:
Dr Elizabeth Baigent (Wycliffe Hall)
Organising department:
School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser:
Dr Claire Hann (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
claire.hann@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://women-in-oxford-geography.eventbrite.co.uk/
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Claire Hann
