Questions Inside and Outside the Academy: Dangerous Women?
One strand of IASH Edinburgh’s mission is to be a place in the University where the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ meet. In 2016, the Institute launched a major digital initiative aimed towards that goal—The Dangerous Women Project. The idea that women are dangerous individually or collectively permeates many historical periods, cultures and areas of contemporary life (despite, and in some instances in response to, explicitly feminist movements). We therefore asked “what does it mean to be a dangerous woman?” and curated 365 responses from a broad range of academic and creative perspectives, publishing them on a specially designed website. This session will explore the Project’s successes online and offline; the practicalities of developing a project of this type; and the potential for such initiatives as ways of ‘doing’ public humanities.
Fri, April 7, 2017 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM BST
Attendees to this session, which will finish at 12:45, will be invited to stay for the ECHIC conference's farewell lunch, finishing at 14:00.