Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney

Women’s History

S C O T L A N D

2013 Annual Conference

3-4 May 2013

Making, Creating, Producing:

Historical Perspectives on Women, Gender Production

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Friday 3 May

afternoon: Women's History Trail: a guided walk around Kirkwall (?) led by Morag McInnes

Venue – Orkney College

3.00-4.30

Keren Protheroe (Kingston): Drawing as craft: women designers and the Royal Society of Art Textile Design Competitions in the 1920s

Debora Reid (Edinburgh) Edinburgh School of gardening for women: petticoats to professionals?

Cathryn R. Spence (Guelph) ‘The Art and Craft of Perling: Young Women and Craft Production in Early Modern Edinburgh’

5pm Sue Innes Memorial Lecture : Elizabeth Ewan (Research Professor of Scottish History, University of Guelph, Canada) - 'Producing Women in Pre-modern Scotland`

followed by Civic reception - Orkney Island Council Chambers at 6.30pm

Saturday 4 May

Venue: Orkney College, Kirkwall

9.30-10.00am Registration and Coffee

10.00-11.30am

Michael James (UHI): Women and Wages in the Western Isles: the gendered valuation of labour in the Hebrides 1770-1815

Beatrice Moring (Cambridge and Helsinki): Women and Production in the Baltic Archipeligo - gender aspects of family and polyculture

Ann Marwick: Womens work in North Ronaldsay

B1:

Alison McCall (Dundee): Needlework in Victorian Education: Creative Art or Drudgery?

Nanna Damsholt (Denmark), Needlework seen as part of women's production and the production of a national identity'

Stephen Knott (Crafts Study Centre, Surrey): 'Troublesome teddies: the production of handicraft soft toys by women'

11.30-1.00

A2:

Linsey Hunter, Agents without agency: female participation in landholding in the Anglo-Scottish Border Region c.1150-1250

Gillian Beattie-Smith (Edinburgh/UHI): Identity in the land: Elizabeth Grant of Rothimurchus, a Highland Lady

B2:

Sierra Dye (Guelph): Consumers and producers – chapbooks and women in Scottish Society

Sadie Hough (RCA/V&A): Dressing Labour: women, workwear and factory production, Britain 1960-982

Piers Crocker (Stavanger): Women and the Norwegian Canning Industry

Jill DeFresnes ‘Our Herring Adventures’ : The work of women in the herring fishing industry of Scotland and Iceland in the C20th

1.00-2.00 Buffet Lunch

2.00-3.30 pm

Jennifer Lane Lee (Liverpool), What shall we have for dinner? Women, foraging and the evolution of meaning

Caroline Wickham Jones (Aberdeen): The archaeology of Orkney: a balanced view?

Jo Stanley, Southern women service workers as enforced tourists in Orkney in WW2

Carol Christiansen (Shetland Museum): Shetland Vadmal

Kate Wilson (Bath Spa): Women Potters of Barvas, Isle of Lewis

Rebecca Keyel (Wisconsin): Victory Knitting- American Knitters on the Home Front

3.30-3.45 Tea

3.45-5.00

Sian Reynolds, The Roadto Stromness pier: Margaret Gardiner, Science, Politics and Art

Jocelyn Rendall, Against all odds – the Balfour women

5.00 Round-up and Concluding Remarks