Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Events
Our forthcoming events are listed below.
You can find information about our past events here (2016 - present) and here (2000 - 2015).
For the full list of speakers in our Graduate Seminar series (2004 - present), click here.
For video and audio recordings of past CSWG events, click here.
Amazing Women Roadshow: "Stars, Sieves and Women's Stories"
Amazing Women Roadshow - a collaboration between CSWG, the Resonate Festival and Coventry City of Culture
Stars, Sieves and Women's Stories: an interactive exhibition about early modern fortune telling
Can the magical methods of the past foretell your future?
A fun, interactive exhibition that explores methods of fortune telling in early modern Britain (c.1500-1800). Forming part of the Resonate Festival’s Amazing Women roadshow, the exhibition looks at fascinating stories of female magical practitioners, and investigates how accounts of astrologers, witches, cunning-folk and ‘gypsy’ fortune-tellers reflect past ideas about gender roles.
The exhibition covers seventeen fortune-telling methods, including astrology, dice-rolling, palmistry, dream interpretation, unearthing stalks of kale, scrying, conjuration, reading animal bones, and the ‘sieve and shears’.
If you want to know the prospects for your health, career, romantic life or anything else, we (may) have the answers!
There is also a ‘choose your own adventure’ experience that allows visitors to use the interactive stations to develop the story of an early modern woman.