Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland): In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015.

_{2018 is the centenary of the gaining of votes for (some) women in the UK. But how does this experience compare to other parts of Europe?}

_{Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland) will be visiting the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 21 February to discuss the Icelandic perspective. All welcome!}

_{In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015.}

_{Wednesday 21 February, 13.00-14.30}

_{Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building}

_{This presentation will provide an overview a project which aims to cast new light on our understanding of women as cultural and political agents in 20th- and 21st century Iceland. Linking together a culturally inspired history of politics, feminist theories of intersectionality, and historicizing notions of women´s agency and citizenship, the project aspires to explore how women, in all their diversities, negotiated for a space as fully practicing and acting as citizens, thus taking part in moulding Icelandic society in times of great transformations. We intend to examine how gender has intersected with other socio-cultural categories and influenced women’s participation in society. We will be rethinking political history by emphasizing the agency of individual actors in the private, local, and transnational context. Moreover, by exploring the cultural agency of women artists as well as the writing of women’s history as a cultural-political act, the project’s overall aim to deconstruct the cultural and political history of Iceland and rewrite it with women as legitimate actors.}