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Meleisa Ono-George is writing a public-facing book entitled My Name is Amelia Newsham: Science, Art and the Making of Race. To do so, she uses the sparse source material of an enslaved woman’s life to weave an intimate and nuanced history of race in eighteenth-century Britain.
*Alice Rio_ is writing a general narrative history of early medieval Europe told via the experiences of a handful of migrant women, or women who were in one way or another bearers of a minority culture within their household. Her main methodological problem is dearth of sources about (and near-absence of sources written by) women for this period, and how not to end up just talking about men instead. She wants to argue this problem also presents unexpected opportunities.
Respondents:
Emily West (Oxford)
Simple Rajrah (Oxford)
Sofia Sanabria de Felipe (Oxford)
Date:
29 January 2026, 12:30
Venue:
St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details:
North Lecture Room
Speakers:
Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford),
Alice Rio (Oxford)
Part of:
WGQ in the Archives: Dearth, Remnants, Glut, and Fragments
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
