Catherine Hall Presents the Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies

Catherine Hall, renowned feminist historian at University College London, will present The Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies at Gerrard Hall Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m.

The IAH hosts the Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford.

The lecture is designed to appeal to a broader public rather than area specialists. Speakers are asked to provide pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.

Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, Hall will lead a workshop, "Gender and Empire," in Hyde Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., sponsored by the IAH and the Department of History.

Catherine Hall

According to her staff page at UCL, Hall's research focuses on re-thinking the relation between Britain and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly examining the ways in which empire affected metropolitan life, how the empire was lived 'at home,' and how English identities, both masculine and feminine, were constituted in relation to the multiple 'others' of the empire.

Hall's area of research include British nineteenth century social and cultural history, gender, empire, colonialism and history writing.