Aotearoa New Zealand Gender History Seminar

You are warmly invited to attend this regular, online seminar. Each session (held via zoom) features 3 x 10-minute research presentations on current research in Aotearoa New Zealand Gender History, followed by discussion. Please get in touch with us if you would like to present your own research. Charlotte Greenhalgh (charlotte.greenhalgh@waikato.ac.nz) and Charlotte Macdonald

Wednesday 5 August, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom

Inaugural session of the Aotearoa New Zealand Gender History Seminar. Here is the zoom link

Speakers:

  • Jane McCabe, Shand Land, Shand Women: Rural inheritance and Urban life in an Otago family, 1850-1950
  • Angela Wanhalla, Gendering ‘the price of citizenship’ during World War II
  • Monica Webb, Writing a Life: Behind the Scenes with the Anna Stout Biography

Wednesday 16 September, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom

Gender, family life and emotion. Here is the zoom link

Speakers:

  • Charlotte Greenhalgh, The history of pregnancy in twentieth-century New Zealand
  • Michelle Walker, Family life and emotion during periods of mental illness related to childbirth in New Zealand, 1860–1920
  • Paulien Martens, The history of fatherhood in nineteenth-century Otago

Wednesday 28 October, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom

Speakers TBC. Please get in touch if you would like to present your research.