Somerville and Suffrage – Events
Somerville is celebrating this centenary year of ‘Votes for Women’ with an exciting calendar of events. Launched on 6 February 2018 (the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the Peoples Act) the ‘Somerville and Suffrage’ programme will offer everything from lectures and discussions to film screenings and newly commissioned musical theatre. Many of our events are open to the public. For more information, please contact principals.office@some.ox.ac.uk.
Launching the celebrations: Principal of Somerville Jan Royall, with Honorary Fellows Shirley Williams and Emma Rothschild
6 March 2018
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture: ‘Fabulous Fluorine’ with Professor Veronique Gouverneur
8 March 2018
Celebration of International Women’s Day Somerville Chapel: Sing-through of works by female composers, in association with Oxford University Press
1 May 2018
After a Century of Suffrage – Roundtable discussion with Helen Pankhurst and Jane Robinson
18 May 2018
John Stuart Mill Lecture with Professor Sir Adam Roberts
25 May 2018
Q&A with women in politics: Annaliese Dodds, Layla Moran, Thérèse Coffey and Cheryl Briggs.
TBC June 2018
Women Refugees event (speakers tbc)
TBC 2018
Black Women First: a joint event with Black Cultural Archives
9 October 2018
Special performance of Rhondda Rips it Up by Welsh National Opera, about Somervillian Lady Rhondda
20 October 2018
Literary Lunch with Jane Robinson, author of Hearts and Minds. The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
31 October 2018
‘Frankenreads’ a weeklong celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
October 2018 (date tbc)
Shami Chakrabati speaks about her book Of Women, in the 21st Century
11 November 2018
Anne Logan speaks about her book The Politics of Penal Reform: Margery Fry and the Howard League
27 November 2018
Roundtable discussion with Frances O’Grady (General Secretary, TUC)