Join us on International Women's Day 2022 to celebrate the launch of Dangerous Women: Fifty reflections on women, power and identity (Unbound, 2022). Showcasing fifty wide-ranging perspectives on our social and political structures, our everyday lives, our attitudes, and our very identities, Dangerous Women questions what it means for a woman to be dangerous and who, or what, does she present a danger to.
The launch will feature editor Jo Shaw, along with contributors including Mab Jones, Sujana Crawford, Laura Waddell, Glynis Ridley, Rachel McCrum and more.
We hope to see you there!
Free tickets: https://dangerouswomenbook.eventbrite.co.uk
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Speakers:
Jo Shaw: Professor Jo Shaw is the Head of the Edinburgh Law School and holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions. Between 2014 and 2017 she was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Her research interests lie in the fields of EU law, constitutional law, and citizenship. Twitter: @joshaw
Mab Jones: Mab Jones is a ‘unique talent’ (The Times). Writing from the top of a hill in Wales, her subjects are dreams, death, the body, being a woman, being a human, silence, speech, childhood, sexual abuse and mental health. As a young person, she suffered from Selective Mutism, which now informs much of her writing. Mab’s most recent collection is take your experience and peel it (Indigo Dreams, 2016), which won the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize. Mab teaches at Cardiff University, runs International Dylan Thomas Day, and freelances for the New York Times. www.mabjones.com
Sujana Crawford: A multilingual poet, playwright and researcher, Sujana Crawford's work mainly explores human relationships, traditional practices and our interconnectedness with nature. Her work often draws inspiration from her childhood in Nepal, interest in folklore, and work in gender relations.
Laura Waddell: Laura Waddell is a publisher and writer based in Glasgow. Her first book, Exit (Bloomsbury, 2020), is a short collection of essays exploring the theme of exit. She writes a weekly column for The Scotsman, has been published in the Guardian, TLS, Kinfolk, McSweeneys, and is a regular cultural commentator for radio.
Glynis Ridley: Professor Glynis Ridley is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, a former IASH Visiting Fellow, and currently Chair of the Department of English at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her publications include Clara’s Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth- Century Europe (Atlantic Books and Grove, 2004), winner of the Institute for Historical Research Prize, and The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe (Crown, 2010). Publicity surrounding the latter led Ridley to collaborate with field biologist Eric Tepe on naming a new plant species, Solanum baretiae, in honour of eighteenth-century botanist Jeanne Baret, and their co-authored paper was published in PhytoKeys in January 2012.
Rachel McCrum: Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Edinburgh between 2010 and 2016. She was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence, and Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally & Broad. She has taught and performed in Greece, South Africa, Haiti and Canada, and toured her first book of poems, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Freight Books, 2017) across Ireland, Scotland and England in 2017. She is now delighted to call Montreal home, where she is curator of the Atwater Poetry Project, co-director (with Ian Ferrier) of Mile End Poets’ Festival, and the occasional bilingual series Les Cabarets Bâtards.
This event will run online as a Zoom Webinar.