Time
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Chair
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Presenters and titles
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| 10.15am |
Registration open
tea, coffee
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| 10.50am |
Welcome
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| 11am |
Keynote
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Professor Jackie Labbe |
Professor Jo Little, University of Exeter
"Feminist Rural Geography: The Development of Approaches to the Study of Gender, Identity and the Countryside"
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| 12 noon |
Break
tea and coffee
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| 12.15pm |
Panel 1: Cultivated ruralities
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Charlotte Mathieson |
Emma Gray, University of Bristol: "The Rebuilding of a Country House, 1860-1925: Matilda-Blanche Gibbs at Tyntesfield and Dorothy Elmhirst at Dartington Hall;
Christen Elaine Ericsson: "Gertrude Jekyll: The Flower Garden as a Space for Inspiration"
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| 1.15pm |
Lunch
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| 2.15pm |
Panel 2: Beyond Britain and Back Again
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Gail Chester |
Di Drummond, Leeds Trinity University: "Gender, Travel and Contrasting Visions of Rural Space in 'Greater Britain' and Beyond; Flora Annie Steel's Perceptions of Travel and Colonial Pace in India, 1867-1889"
Karina Jakubowicz, UCL: "Ecofeminism in the Novels of Virginia Woolf"
Kitty O'Connor, University of St Andrews: "Gender and Geography in Thomas Hardy's 'The Return of the Native' and 'The Woodlanders"
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| 3.30pm |
Break
tea and coffee
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| 4pm |
Panel 3: Gender in the Field
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Gemma Goodman |
Maija Kuharenoka, De Montfort University: "Images of Rural Masculinity and Femininity in Mathilde Blind's 'The Teamster'"
Roger Ebbatson, University of Lancaster: "Women in the Field: Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies"
Frances Richardson, Oxford University: "Women Farmers of Nantconwy, 1840-1900"
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| 5.15pm |
Roundtable discussion
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Charlotte Mathieson and Gemma Goodman |
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| 6pm |
Wine reception
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