Infinite Women

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...

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-...

Dr Catherine Tracy Goode, Director of the Tools for Researchers Program at the Americas Research Network joins us to talk about the scandal and letters of Casiana Melo. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Tracy-Goode-on-Casiana-Melo-transcript.pdf

Dr. Joy Wiltenburg, professor emerita at Rowan University and author of Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit, to talk about the life and letters of Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple. More about the book: https://www.routledge.com/Laughing-Histories-From-the-Renaissance-Man-to-the-Woman-of-Wit/Wiltenburg/p/book/9781032162072 Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite...

Historian Dr. Johanna Strong joins us to share the story of Queen Mary I of England, also known as Mary Tudor. Due to all the drama around the Tudors, this conversation has been split into two parts; this episode will delve into her reign and legacy, but be sure to listen to Part 1: Princess Mary for her early life leading up to her coronation. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-w...

Historian Dr. Johanna Strong joins us to share the story of Queen Mary I of England, also known as Mary Tudor. Due to all the drama around the Tudors, this conversation has been split into two parts; this episode will cover Mary's life up to her coronation, with the second episode delving into her reign and legacy. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/upload...

Lorissa Rinehart, author of the new book, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent, joins us to share Dickey's story. More about the book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276575/firsttothefront Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lorissa-Rhinehart-on-Dickey-Chapelle-transcript-.pdf

Emily Sullivan, assistant curator of contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, joins us to discuss the artist Louise Bourgeois, her work and the largest exhibition dedicated to the artist ever in Australia, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? at the AGNSW through 28 April 2024. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infi...

Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women, to chat about swimmer Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice Moon, their gym in Melbourne and telling queer histories. More about the book: https://ultimopress.com.au/products/she-and-her-pretty-friend Read the interview transcript Read about Harriet Elphinstone Dick on the Infinite Women si...

Lucina Ward, Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about German-American multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith. Smith is one of the artists featured in Deep inside my heart exhibition, which is at the NGA through 19 May 2024. Deep inside my heart is part of the larger Know My Name initiative at the NGA, focused on women artists. More about the exh...

Angelique Joy, an artist and PhD candidate at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), joins us to talk about Ada Lovelace, who was writing code for computers before they even existed. We also chat discuss how to make modern technology more inclusive, biases in coding and the implications of artificial intelligence. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/up...

Dr. Tamara J. Walker, author of Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad, to talk about journalist, civil rights activist and adoption advocate Mabel Grammer. Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635185/beyond-the-shores-by-tamara-j-walker/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Tamara-J-Walker-on-Mabel-Grammer-transcri...

Dr. Kiera Lindsey, South Australia's History Advocate, joins us to talk about her new biography Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the first Australian artist to astonish the world. Dr. Lindsey also delves into the complexities of, and need for, speculative biography to tell marginalised stories. Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Kiera-Lindsey-Wild-Love-978176...

Novelist Sherilyn Decter, author of the Bootlegger Chronicles, Rum Runners Chronicles and Moonshiner Mysteries series, joins us to chat about Prohibition in the 1920s United States, and the women who defied it in spectacular fashion. More on Sherilyn's books: https://sherilyndecter.com/books/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sherilyn-Decter-on-th...

Sara Hardy, author of The Unusual Life of Edna Walling, joins us to talk about the iconic, queer English-Australian landscape designer. Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Sara-Hardy-Unusual-Life-of-Edna-Walling-9781741142297 Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-Hardy-on-Edna-Walling-transcript.pdf Read more about Edna Walling on...

Dr. Kaley Butten, a Research Scientist with CSIRO, joins us to talk about pharmacologist and physician Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who prevented thousands of birth deformities and whose work led to stricter safety regulations in the U.S. and beyond. Read more about Kelsey on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/frances-oldham-kelsey/ Read the interview transcript: https://w...

Dr. Shelley Stamp, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. She joins us to discuss Lois's career and how her personal story reflects the history of early Hollywood, especially for women writers, directors and actors. Read more about Dr Stamp and her wo...

Loretta Smith, author of A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage , joins us to talk about Alice's incredible, but tragically short, life. Buy the book: https://www.hachette.com.au/loretta-smith/a-spanner-in-the-works-the-extraordinary-story-of-alice-anderson-and-australias-first-all-girl-garage Read the interview transcript: h...

Dr. Carrie Gibson, author of Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, joins us to talk about Mary Prince, subject of one of the earliest slave narratives. With Prince as a starting point, we delve into the complexities of how the stories of enslaved and formerly enslaved women like Sojourn...

Dr. Leah Redmond Chang , author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power , joins us for a conversation about the lives and relationships of Catherine de' Medici , her daughter-in-law Mary, Queen of Scots and her daughter Elisabeth de Valois, and how these women's experiences reflect larger patterns for royal women and women in general, even today. Read the interview...

CSIRO Communications Officer Morgan Gilbert joins us for a chat about women doctors of the ancient world, and how CSIRO's Mother app is helping pregnant people today. Learn more about the Mother app: https://vimeo.com/770947091 Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Morgan-Gilbert-on-ancient-doctors-transcript.pdf Read more about Agdonice on the Infini...

Dr. Gwendolyn Collaço, Collections Curator at MIT's Aga Khan Documentation Center, joins us to talk about wedding trousseaus as curated collections that were meticulously displayed and evaluated before they were ever used in a household. Women played the part of artist, curator and performer in the creation and presentation of the trousseaus. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite...