Sydney Feminist History Group

The Sydney Feminist History Group brings together historians, researchers and friends of feminist history, broadly defined.

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2023 Program

Seminars are held usually on the first Thursday of every month at UTS Building 2, (Law Building), level 17 from 5.30 to 7.15 pm. Please bring a gold coin for refreshments. Dinner at local restaurant afterwards. 

Thursday March 2 

Special Event: An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family 

Alison Bashford in conversation with Robyn Williams 

Special location and time: Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW, 6pm-7.15pm  

Reserve your free ticket here. 

 

Thursday April 6 

Cruelty, Desertion and the Family: Converging histories of marriage and domestic violence 

Ann Curthoys, Zora Simic, Catherine Kevin 

 

Thursday May 4 

Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia 

Michelle Arrow, Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Robert Reynolds  

 

Thursday June 1 

Writing Feminist Histories of Aboriginal Men 

Katherine Biber, ‘The Governor Brothers: Writing an outlaw history from the academy’ 

Naomi Parry, 'Musquito's Biography: Why does a white feminist want to write about a black man?'  

 

July: No Seminar

 

Thursday August 3 

Amahs, Ayahs and Au Pairs (Chair: Laurie Berg) 

Claire Lowrie, ‘An Amah in Paris: The transcolonial journeys of Chinese nursemaids’ 

Victoria Haskins, ‘An Ayah in New York: Representing the British empire in American cultural history’

Angela Kintominas ‘A Hidden Backstory: Excavating the origins of the law and political economy of au pairing in Australia’. 

 

Thursday September 7 

Feminist Oral Histories 

Cheryl Ware, ‘Feminism, memory and oral histories: The NZ sex workers project’  

Jeannine Baker, ‘Listening to the Voices of Women in Early Australian TV Production’ 

 

Thursday October 5  

Gendered Professions 

Hannah Forsyth, ‘Feminising the Professions, Masculinising Management: How a gendered history of white-collar work explains right-wing scepticism of expertise

Claire Wright, ‘Feminised Professions, Symbolic Violence, and Locking in Australia’s Corporate Woman’

 

Thursday November 2 

Emotions, Law and History  

Alecia Simmonds, ‘Stories of Love from the Archives of Law ‘ 

Additional speaker TBA 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.