[Anthropgrad] 5th Key Thinkers Lecture -Tuesday 9th September - Ann Curthoys

[Sharon Komidar]

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Apologies for cross posting. Many Thanks, Sharon.

 

The Research School of Humanities presents,

 

5th Key Thinkers lecture, 

Tuesday 9th September, 5-6.30pm, Conference Room, Old Canberra House,
ANU.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft

Professor Ann Curthoys

Manning Clark Professor of History, ANU.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft was a philosopher and novelist of the eighteenth
century, whose Vindication of the Rights of Woman has long been regarded
as a foundational feminist text. Since the book's first publication in
1792, it has been read and re-read, variously interpreted, and at times
almost forgotten.  Her other texts, including a travel narrative and two
novels (Mary: A Fiction, and the unfinished Maria: or, The Wrongs of
Woman) have also attracted considerable scholarly interest. 

 

For many readers, just as interesting as the writings has been Mary's
own unconventional life, involving several affairs and marriage to the
philosophical anarchist, William Godwin; she died in childbirth, her
daughter growing up to become Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
In this lecture, Professor Curthoys revisits Mary Wollstonecraft's work,
especially the Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She asks: is the Mary
Wollstonecraft we read in 2008 the same key thinker that so many
feminists read in the 1970s? What can we learn from her today? 

 

Ann Curthoys is Manning Clark Professor of History and an ARC
Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University. She writes on
many aspects of Australian history and also on history and fiction; her
most recent books include, Rights and Redemption: History, Law, and
Indigenous People, written with Ann Genovese and Alexander Reilly and Is
History Fiction?, written with John Docker.

 

Convenor: Ned Curthoys - ned.curthoys at anu.edu.au

For general enquiries please contact:
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/

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