Infinite Women

Dr Ellie Woodacre and Dr Amy Saunders join us from the University of Winchester to discuss modern depictions of historical queens in TV and film. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-and-Amy-Saunders-on-Queens-on-Screens-transcript.pdf

Sarah Horowitz, Professor of History at Washington and Lee University and author of The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All joins us to discuss the scandalous life of Marguerite Steinheil. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sarah-Horowitz-on-Marguerite-Steinheil-transcript.pdf

Alexis J. Pedrick is director of digital engagement at the Science History Institute and director of Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. More about Innate: sciencehistory.org/about/projects-initiatives/innate L...

Dr Rebecca Scales, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, joins us to talk about Red Cross nurse and polio survivor Ellen Poidatz, who founded France’s first residential rehabilitation facility for children and adolescents paralyzed by polio in 1919. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rebecca-Scales-on-Ellen-Helene-Poidatz-tra...

Juanita Simmonds, the inaugural Christina Boughen OAM Fellow through the State Library of Queensland, joins us to talk about the fellowship's namesake and her career as a musician in 20th-century Queensland. Read more about the State Library of Queensland: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/ Read more about the Queensland Memory Awards: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/qu...

Historian, author and royal commentator Dr. Carolyn Harris, joins us to talk about queens and revolution. Dr Harris teaches history at the University of Toronto and is the author of Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe and co-editor of the English Consorts series, published by Palgrave Macmillan. See all of Carolyn's publications at httwww.royalhistorian.com/booksrecent-articles/  ...

Samantha Fryer Ward, Collections Engagement Assistant at the Corinium Museum, joins us to chat about English archaeologist Helen O’Neil. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sam-Fryer-Ward-on-Helen-ONeill-transcript.pdf

Imogen Dixon-Smith, Kenneth E. Tyler Curator of International Prints and Drawing at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about German-American printmaker and textile artist, Anni Albers. Imogen has recently curated the exhibition Anni and Josef Albers, which is on display at the NGA until 22 September 2024. More on the exhibit: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/anni-and-josef-albers Read more...

Courtney Lee, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Social Media Lead and Outreach Support at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, joins us to chat about the telescope’s namesake, and Courtney's own work at NASA. Play the Roman Space Observer Game at roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/game.html Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Courtney-Lee-on-Nancy-Grace-Roman-trans...

Dr Ellie Woodacre, Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester and author of Queens and Queenship, joins us to discuss the power of influential queen mothers across different times and places. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-on-the-power-of-queen-mothers-transcript.pdf

Simeran Maxwell, Associate Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to discuss the NGA’s exhibition, A Century of Quilts. The quilts are on display at the NGA until 25 August 2024: https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/a-century-of-quilts/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Simeran-Maxwell-and-quilts-at-the-NGA-transcript.pdf

Author, historian and filmmaker Mindy Johnson joins us to talk about Bessie Mae Kelley, a pioneering animator in the early film industry. Find Mindy's books at www.mindyjohnsoncreative.com/book-menu Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Mindy-Johnson-on-Bessie-Mae-Kelley-transcript.pdf

Professor Jenie Hahn, a lecturer and administrator at Jeju National University in South Korea, joins us to talk about the businesswoman and philanthropist, Kim Manduk, who saved the people of Jeju in the 1790s. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jenie-Hahn-on-Kim-Manduk-transcript.pdf

Dr Gabby Storey joins us to talk about the medieval queen Berengaria of Navarre. You can order her book, Berengaria of Navarre. Queen of England, Lord of Le Mans, at https://www.routledge.com/Berengaria-of-Navarre-Queen-of-England-Lord-of-Le-Mans/Storey/p/book/9781032121475 Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Gabby-Storey-on-Berengaria-of-Navarre-tra...

Dr Sharrona Pearl, a professor of bioethics and history at Drexel University, joins us to talk about painter, writer, educator and activist Riva Lehrer, whose experience living with spina bifida significantly influences her work. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sharrona-Pearl-on-Riva-Lehrer-disability-humanity-and-autonomy-transcript.pdf

Dr Toner Stevenson, the co-author of Eclipse Chasers, which includes women's contributions to solar eclipse science. Dr. Stevenson’s PhD research delved into the stories of the women that worked as “computers”, “star measurers” and “clerical assistants” at Australian observatories on the Astrographic Catalogue project, an international effort to map the entire night sky that took decades. Read...

Artist and writer Leeza Peters to talk about Elizabeth Woolcock, the only woman ever executed in South Australia, and for a crime that Peters believes may not have even happened. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Leeza-Peters-transcript.pdf

Aida Brankovic, a Research Scientist with CSIRO, joins us to talk about software engineer Margaret Hamilton, the lead developer for NASA's Apollo flight software, who also coined the term “software engineering.” Read more about Margaret Hamilton on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/margaret-hamilton/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-c...

Dr Ellie Woodacre, Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester and author of Queens and Queenship, joins us to discuss how queens’ sexuality - real, imagined or perceived - impacts their public image. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-on-queens-sexuality-and-reputation-transcript.pdf

Dana Rubin, author of Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women and creator of the Speaking While Female Speech Bank, joins us to explore the secret history of women’s speech, its impacts today and how things have changed (but perhaps not enough). Discover women's words at the Speaking While Female Speech Bank: https://speakingwhilefemale.co/speaking-while-female/ Read...

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-b...