Infinite Women

Kate Saccone, Project Manager and an editor for The Women Film Pioneers Project, tells us about some of the fascinating women of the silent film era and we delve into the reasons so many were lost to history and how some patterns persist even today in the film industry.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kate-Saccone-on-the-lost-women-of-early-cinema-transcript.pdf

Dr Rebecca Edwards, Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Australian potter and painter Anne Dangar. An exhibition of Dangar’s work, curated by Dr. Edwards, is on at the NGA through 27 April 2025: https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/anne-dangar/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rebecca-Edwards-on-Anne-Dangar-transcript.pdf

Karen Valby is the author of the book The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History. Karlya Shelton-Benjamin is one of the titular dancers. The book is also a history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which shifted the national narrative of who could be a ballerina. Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716415/the-swans-of-harlem-by-karen-valby/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Karen-Valby-and-Karlya-Shelton-Benjamin-on-the-Black-ballerinas-of-Dance-Theatre-of-Harlem-transcript.pdf

Dr. Stevenson previously joined us to discuss women in the early years of Australian observatories, specifically in the context of the decades-long, international Astrographic Catalogue project. But as always, the more you dig, the more women’s stories you will uncover, so Dr Stevenson is back to tell us about women in Australian astronomy.Read the interview trancript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Toner-Stevenson-on-Australias-early-amateur-astronomers-transcript.pdf

Dr Josephine Browne, a Teaching Associate at Southern Cross University and recently a member of the executive of the Australian Women and Gender Studies Association, joins us to discuss author Mary Ward, her 1894 novel Marcella and the New Man/New Woman movement of that period.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Josephine-Browne-on-Mary-Ward-Marcella-and-the-New-Woman-transcript.pdfRead more about Ward on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-augusta-humphry-ward/

Serene Bennett Williams and Kristen Kelly, founders of Women's History in High School, join us to talk about their fight for increased women’s history representation in US schools, including a campaign for an AP course in Women's US History.Read more about their work at www.wapush.orgWant to help? The campaign needs letters of support from college department heads and high schools across the US - contact Serene and Kristen here if you can provide a letter or want to volunteer: www.wapush.org/contactRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Serene-Bennett-Williams-and-Kristen-Kelly-on-Womens-History-in-High-Schools-transcript.pdf

Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, tells us about Australian artist Lindy Lee, and the solo exhibition of her work that is on now at the NGA through 1 June 2025. More about the installation: nga.gov.au/art-artists/sculpture-garden/lindylee-ouroboros/More about the exhibition: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/lindyleeRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Deirdre-Cannon-on-Lindy-Lee-transcript.pdf

Speaker and historian Dr. Surekha Davies, author of the upcoming book Humans: A Monstrous History, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, joins us to chat about the monstrous feminine in human history and how the traits we demonise in women become literal demons. More info: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-historyRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Surekha-Davies-on-women-as-monstrous-transcript.pdf

Jude Berman is the author of the new novel The Vow, a fictionalized version of the life of 18th century painter Angelica Kauffman.More about the book: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Vow/Jude-Berman/9781647427887Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jude-Berman-on-Angelica-Kauffman-transcript.pdfRead more about Kauffman on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/angelica-kauffman/

Author Maria Vetrano tells us about her new novel Queen Bess: A Tudor Comes to Save America, a political fantasy that reimagines Elizabeth Tudor as a US presidential candidate in 2028. Buy the book: queen-bess.comRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Maria-Vetrano-and-her-time-travelling-Queen-Bess-transcript.pdf