The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 16 October, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom
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Cerys Dallaway Davidson, Garment Biographies and Pocket Archives
Fiona McKergow, ‘Hurled on her shoulders’: Anne Nelson’s Paisley Shawl as Colonial Textile Culture
Cerys Dallaway Davidson is Poutiaki Taonga | Collections Curator at the University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. She has been working in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector in both curatorial and collection management capacities for over a decade. Alongside her role working with the art collection and archives Cerys is undertaking a history master’s thesis with the University, connecting to her undergraduate studies in fashion design and postgraduate Museum studies background.
Fiona McKergow is an independent historian based in Palmerston North. With support from a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund grant, she is revising her 2020 doctoral thesis on mid-19th century colonial textile culture for publication. She has a background in public history and museums, and has previously co-edited two books, Looking Flash (AUP, 2007) and Te Hao Nui (Godwit, 2011).
This is a regular, online seminar. Each session (held via zoom) features 2 x 10–12-minute research presentations on current research in Gender History with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand, followed by discussion.
Convenors: Charlotte Greenhalgh (charlotte.greenhalgh@waikato.ac.nz) and Charlotte Macdonald (charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz)