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On 4 September 2020

Keynote

Girls’ Writing About War

Friday 4^th Sept., 1.30pm*

‘War is an Ecstasy, Risk is Wild’: Girls Writing War in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Emma Butcher (Edge Hill University)

(Preceded by introductions and welcome to the workshop.)

Panel 1

Gender and Sexuality

Friday 4^th Sept., 3pm*

‘Female’ military masculinities: gender non-conforming women warriors and beyond
Dr Catherine Baker (University of Hull)

Joans and Pearls, Furiosas and Guerrillères: Queer Women, War, and the Apocalypse
Héloïse Thomas (Bordeaux Montaigne University)

Building the Warrior Women Project: Digital Humanities and a Broadside Ballad Archive
Erika Carbonara (Wayne State University)
Robert Chapman-Morales (Wayne State University)
Professor Simone Chess (Wayne State University)
Kelly Plante (Wayne State University)
Lindsay Ragle-Miller (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Panel 2

Nationalism and Propaganda

Friday 4^thSept., 4.30pm*

French Invasion Heroines and their Afterlives
Professor Alison Fell (University of Leeds)

Beautiful Warriors or Chaste Patriots: Representation of Women Soldiers in Turkish Media
Dr Senem Kaptan (Rutgers University)

From Magical to Martial: The Evolution of the Representations of the Red Lanterns in Twentieth-Century Chinese Visual Culture
Karen Wang (Yale University)

Panel 3

Activism and Exclusion

Friday 4^th Sept., 6pm*

Guerrilla Girls, Wonder Women, and Menstruating Mothers: Iconographies of IRA Women in Armagh Gaol, 1970-1980
Samantha Haddad (New York University)

Indigenous Women Warriors of the Americas, 19^th Century
Dr Suzanne McLeod (University of New Mexico)

“Unlikely heroes” and “badass women in bomber planes”: representations of the female warrior in Heavy Metal
Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz (Université Paris Nanterre/EHESS)

* Times are in Irish Standard Time/British Summer Time (GMT+1). For an indicative overview of the programme in other timezones please see the table below!

Programme Timezone Converter (Friday)

	_{Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)}	_{British Summer Time (GMT+1)}	_{Central European Summer Time (GMT+2)}	_{Turkey (GMT+3)}
Keynote	08:30 – 09:30	13:30 – 14:30	14:30 – 15:30	15:30 – 16:30
Panel 1	10:00 – 11:00	15:00 – 16:00	16:00 – 17:00	17:00 – 18:00
Panel 2	11:30 – 12:30	16:30 – 17:30	17:30 – 18:30	18:30 – 19:30
Panel 3	13:00 – 14:00	18:00 – 19:00	19:00 – 20:00	20:00 – 21:00