Monday, 19 August 2013
What kinds of objects can be said to have changed the world? In a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia this Tuesday 20 August, Professor Alison Bartlett will talk about ‘things that liberate', that is, some of the objects that have changed Australian women's lives through their association with the women's movement and feminism since 1970.
Professor Bartlett will discuss how material culture provides a novel form of understanding social history. Her lecture will present a fascinating collection of objects, remembrance, and effects of one of the major social movements of the twentieth century.
Alison Bartlett teaches Gender Studies at The University of Western Australia and is currently thinking about ways to write social histories that include the emotional experience from multiple and often contradictory perspectives. Her most recent book is Things That Liberate: an Australian Feminist Wunderkammer , edited with Margaret Henderson (2013).
WHAT: Lecture - Objects of social change: the women's movement and things that liberate.
WHEN: 6pm, Tuesday 20 August 2013
WHERE: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, UWA
COST: Free, but registration required via https://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/bartlett
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Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies) (+61 8) 6488 4797
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