Women in Magazines:

Nearly there!

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:49:48 +0100

We’re nearly there now! The conference begins in less than 48 hours and we’re very excited. Last minute details are being circulated/collected from delegates and tomorrow sees us putting the packs together. No major crisis as yet, and for once everyone seems to be very impressed with the conference dinner options! No stuffed chicken breasts for us!

Revised programme available

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:31:16 +0100

A revised version of the progamme is now available - follow the ‘programme’ link on the bottom right of this page…

Programme available!

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:26:38 +0100

The provisional programme is now available! Follow the ‘programme’ link on the bottom right of this page to take a look. It is also available in an easier-to-read pdf version; email womeninmagazines@gmail.com to receive a copy. We hope you agree that it looks like a great couple of days!

Programme in development

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:21:00 +0100

We are currently finalising the provisional programme - very exciting! It will be circulated to all speakers once it is finished. If you aren’t speaking but would like to see it then please email womeninmagazines@gmail.com

Dear all, I have just booked a twin room for single use but I would welcome the opportunity to share...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:19:49 +0100

Dear all,

I have just booked a twin room for single use but I would welcome the opportunity to share my room with one of other speakers, since I am not so familiar with the Kingston area. I hope hearing from you!

Best regards,

Natalina Lodato

Ph.D Candidate in Women’s and gender history,

University of Naples L’Orientale

Publicity poster

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:47 +0100

The latest ‘Women in Magazines’ conference poster is now doing the rounds. If you receive it, then please pass it on as widely as possible (if you haven’t already got a copy and would like to then please just email womeninmagazines@gmail.com).

The event looks set to be a great couple of days - good enough to match the fab poster! Special thanks go to US Vogue for supplying us with such a great image from their archives.

Registration now open!

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:00:30 +0100

Conference registration and booking is now open! Simply follow the link below and it’s just a few easy steps to complete…

http://kuwomeninmagazines.eventbrite.com/

Dear all, I would be very pleased to share accomodation with someone. Natalina Lodato Phd Student,...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:16:13 +0100

Dear all,

I would be very pleased to share accomodation with someone.

Natalina Lodato

Phd Student, Women’s and gender history, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy

Looking for a roommate at the conference?

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:28:00 +0100

One of the conference delegates asked if we were aware of any other delegates travelling some distance and possibly looking for a roommate to share accommodation (and therefore accommodation costs!) over the period of the conference. This seems like a great idea, so we are going to create a page on this blog where people can post if they are interested in this. Click on the ‘looking to share accommodation?’ link on the right of here…

To Women in Magazines from History of Women in the Americas

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:51:20 +0100

From organising one conference (History of Women in the Americas) to another (Women in Magazines), & trying to sort 80+ papers in c24 coherent panels. The phrase ‘herding cats’ springs to mind!

The CfP deadline has now passed. We received an avalanche of great abstracts over the last few days...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:07:24 +0000

The CfP deadline has now passed. We received an avalanche of great abstracts over the last few days and look forward to working our way through them. If you’ve submitted one to us then we’ll be in touch over the coming weeks.

CfP Deadline Approaching!

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:35:48 +0000

It’s the CfP deadline on Friday, 9th March. We’ve had some great submissions already but it’s not too late to send us something! Please email a c250-word abstract to womeninmagazines@gmail.com.

Ten days to go...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:23:56 +0000

Only ten days to go until the CfP deadline for Women in Magazines and the stream of abstracts being submitted is growing daily! Don’t forget to submit yours to womeninmagazines@gmail.com by Friday 9th March. If you need a reminder about the CfP details, follow the link to the CfP page at the bottom right of this page. We look forward to seeing your submission soon!

Hello to our new followers!

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:40:37 +0000

Hello there to all our new followers! Thanks for stopping by and reblogging our CfP. We really want to publicise the conference as widely as possible and encourage attendance from both academics and magazine practitioners. If you’d like more information about the event or to submit an abstract for consideration, drop us a line at womeninmagazines@gmail.com.

Many thanks again, from Sue, Nicola, Jay and Rae, co-convenors of Women in Magazines.

Our Keynote Speakers

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:45:00 +0000

We are delighted to announce that the two keynote speakers for Women in Magazines are Noliwe Rooks (Princeton University) and Penny Tinkler (University of Manchester). Both have produced pioneering work in this field & we are so pleased that they are able to come and share this with us.

From the old to the new...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:15 +0000

Some great new partners look set to be coming on board with the conference and we’re also pleased to say that we should be having representatives talking about some of the pioneering digitisation projects that have taken place in the last twelve months or so. Between them, they’ll cover the old to the new in terms of women’s magazine publishing!

We’ve had confirmation from one of our keynote speakers and will be making an announcement...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:15:46 +0000

We’ve had confirmation from one of our keynote speakers and will be making an announcement about who it soon - stay tuned!

Staying at the conference

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:01:30 +0000

Summer 2012 is a popular time to be visiting London. As well as the ‘Women in Magazines’ conference, there are also the Olympic and Para-Olympic games (you may have heard about them too!). As a result, we recommend that conference attendees reserve their accommodation as soon as possible. Kingston University has a number of recommended options, listed here:

http://www.kingston.ac.uk/visitors/documents/hotel-and-guest-house-list.pdf

It is also possible to stay in central London and travel out to Kingston.

Will there be any support/grants for graduate student travel?

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:25:00 +0000

Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately we are unable to offer any travel grants due to our own limited budget. However, we will be offering all students and those not in employment a concessionary conference fee, which we hope will be helpful.

Call for Papers

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:15:23 +0000

In November 2011, Woman’s Weekly celebrated its 100 year birthday by including a reproduction of the first issue inside the centenary edition. A month later, US Vogue launched a digital archive containing every page published since 1892. These events remind us of the rich history which lies behind titles that continue to grace the shelves marked ‘women’s magazines’ on both sides of the Atlantic. Academics, especially feminist scholars, have long explored this history and the relationship between women and the journals that target them, but in recent years this interest appears to have declined. ‘Women in Magazines’ seeks to reassert the importance of magazines, in Britain and America, as a significant source for women’s and gender historians, by showcasing their latest research.

The conference is broad in scope, reflecting the interests of its supporting organisations: the Centre for the Historical Record (Kingston University), the Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History (Brunel University), the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW), the Women’s History Network and The Women’s Library. It will offer a platform for examining the role of women as producers, subjects and consumers of magazines; it will also explore magazines as important historical records which are being made more accessible by digital technology. The remit is neither bound by time period nor genre: women’s relationships with specialist journals, trade magazines and non-gender specific lifestyle publications such as Ebony are of equal interest to traditional ‘women’s magazines’. The aim is to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue alongside discussion between scholars and representatives of the contemporary magazine industry. An edited collection based on papers presented is planned.

The conference will be hosted by Kingston University, London, on 22-23 June 2012. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to womeninmagazines@gmail.com by 9 March. Key themes for the event are consumption, lifecycles and age, race and ethnicity, social class, geography and location. Suggested topics could include, but are not limited to:

Advertising and marketing Advice and education

Archives and digitization Beauty and fashion

Celebrity culture Editors and journalists

Entertainment and gossip Gender ideology

Methodology and literature Notions of public and private

Politics and citizenship Readers, reading and reception studies

Relationships and the family The home

The magazine industry Work and careers

As well as thematic papers, we encourage reflections upon how we use magazines as a historic record. We also encourage papers that look at the 19th century or earlier and particularly welcome submissions that are transnational or comparative in scope.