Infinite Women

Dr. Brandy Schillace, Editor in Chief of Medical Humanities for the British Medical Journal, to discuss the ways in which society has historically pathologised women and continues to do so today. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Brandy-Schillace-on-pathologising-women-transcript.pdf

Dr Katia Wright joins us to talk about medieval queens as landowners.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Katia-Wright-on-medieval-queens-lands-transcript.pdf

Bianca Taubert, curator of the Adjutant General’s Corps Museum, joins us to discuss the UK’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I, their role and their legacy.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Bianca-Taubert-on-the-Womens-Army-Auxiliary-Corps-transcript.pdf

Holly Marsden, a PhD candidate at the University of Winchester and Historic Royal Palaces, joins us to talk about Mary Frith, AKA Moll Cupturse, a not-so-common criminal who became a legend of London.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Holly-Marsden-on-Moll-Cutpurse-transcript.pdf

Anne O'Hehir, Curator of Photography in International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, tells us about artist Nan Goldin and her large-scale work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. After being on display recently at the NGA, the show travels to the Art Gallery of Ballarat from 2 March 2024 to 2 June 2024 for the International Festival of Photography.More info: photo.org.au/events/the-ballad-of-sexual-dependencyRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Anne-OHehir-on-Nan-Goldin-transcript.pdfRead more about Nan Goldin on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/nan-goldin/

Liesel Higgins, a researcher at CSIRO’s e-Health Research Centre, joins us to to talk about Australian epidemiologist and science communicator Dr Mary Louise McLaws.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Liesel-Higgins-on-Dr-Mary-Louise-McLaws-transcript.pdf

Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior and The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, shares the stories of warrior women, Gudrid the Far Traveler and the textiles workers who were the economic backbone of Viking civilization.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Marie-Brown-on-Viking-Women-transcript.pdf

Amy Saunders, a doctoral student in history and heritage at Winchester University in the UK, joins us to talk about Christina of Sweden, the so-called "Girl King" and modern-day queer icon who had a fascinating life both before and after her time as queen.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Saunders-on-Christina-of-Sweden-transcript.pdf

Thera Webb, Women@MIT Project Archivist with the MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections, tells us about women at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the 1870s to today.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Thera-Webb-on-the-women-of-MIT-transcript.pdf

Dr Jess Bugeja, a CERC postdoctoral fellow in the CSIRO’s Australian eHealth Research Centre, Neurodevelopment and Plasticity team, to talk about Dr. Jacquelin Perry, a pioneer in the mechanics of gait, diseases that affect motion (such as polio and cerebral palsy) and orthopaedic surgery.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jess-Bugeja-on-Jacquelin-Perry-transcript-.pdf