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How are women remembered, commemorated and celebrated in public? How is this different from historical commemorations of men? What forms do these commemorations take? Why do public commemorations of women provoke such debate, and what are the legacies of these public memorials?
Our cities, towns and streets are rich with memorials and monuments dedicated to the achievements and lives of men, but women are significantly unrepresented in our public acts of commemoration.
At this special panel discussion, feminist activists and scholars will examine this significant ‘representation gap’ and debates around the place of women in public history and memory.
With:
Caroline Criado Perez, activist and campaigner (Campaigns include: ‘Keep a Woman on English Banknotes’ and ‘Put a Statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square’)
Dr Rebekah Higgitt, university lecturer and member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel
Sarah Jackson, founder of the East End Women’s Museum
Professor Rebecca Surender, Oxford University, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Diversity and head of Oxford’s ‘Diversifying Portraiture’ campaign
