SHAW ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026 - Society for the History of Women in the Americas

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Organized by CAS (Center for Anglophone Studies) and SHAW (Society for the History of Women in the Americas) 2026 - 26 June

Présentation 

SHAW's 2026 annual will explore the subject of confinement.

Referring to a condition (being confined) or an action if it is imposed (confining), confinement implies constraints imposed on bodies and souls in physical as well as symbolic places and spaces: imprisonment, isolation, incarceration, detention.

The 2026 conference will consider the forms of resistance to confinement and/or to the forms of solidarity borne out of these forms of resistance, within and outside confined spaces. Can confinement be also read as a form of resistance? What forms of agency or spaces of agency do confinement or moving in or out of confinement create?

The conference will question the ways to read and write the history of the confinement(s) of women in the Americas.

Confinement also implies to silencing and containing a particular group – women – or a particular group within a group. Can there be an intersectional, an inclusive and/or a feminist way of writing on the confinement of women in history?

Confinement is not only purely special and physical. It can also be metaphorical, referring to the material realities such as the division between the private and public spheres, or consideration of the female body as a private space turned into a public territory for the cultural wars.

The five panels of the 2026 Conference will address Confinement and Women’s activism (Panel 1), Confinement and/in slavery (Panel 2), Domestic Confinement (Panel 3), Asylums, Surveillance and Regulation in Confinement (Panel 4), Women, Prison and Confinement (Panel 5).

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Comité d’organisation 

Hélène Charlery – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès 
Louise Dobson – University of Sussex
Silvia Guselli – University of Rome
Laura Martin – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Anne Stefani – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès 
Olivia Wright – Leeds Beckett University
 

SHAW’s Committee
Olivia Wright – Leeds Beckett University
Hélène Charlery – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès 
Rachell Sanchez Rivera – Cambridge University
Genevieve Johnson-Smith – Newcastle University 
Louise Dobson – University of Sussex
Silvia Guselli – University of Rome
Natasha Alexander – York St John University 
Kate Dossett – University of Leeds