Greenham Today: Lessons and Legacies for Feminist Protest

Together with Catherine Eschle and Rebecca Mordan, we talk about the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (1981-2000) then and now, and its lessons and legacies for feminist protest.

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was the largest and most sustained feminist protest in modern British history. For this Talk at It event, Rebecca Mordan, co-founder of the Greenham Women Everywhere project and co-author of Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000, will join Catherine Eschle of the University of Strathclyde to reflect on Greenham’s relevance for contemporary feminism. We invite you to a lively conversation, ranging from the politics of erasure and remembering to strategies for archiving feminism in the past and present, and from the changing forms of feminist protest since Greenham to the continued urgency of resisting the tentacles of patriarchy, militarism and environmental destruction.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

© Christine Bradsahw Rebecca Mordan is Artistic Director of Scary Little Girls, which she founded in response to the dearth of diverse roles and opportunities for women in the performing arts. She is an experienced writer, director, producer and performer, with her work appearing in the BBC’s Cornish Voices Writers Room and on BBC Radio 4. With Kate Kerrow, she created the project Greenham Women Everywhere to bring a hugely important piece of feminist heritage into public access. Together with a team of volunteers and Greenham women themselves, the project has archived hundreds of interviews and spawned an exhibition, an immersive digital treasure hunt, educational resources and a book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000. Rebecca has been an anti-war and feminist activist since her childhood at Greenham Common.

 

© Catherine Eschle Catherine Eschle is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she teaches classes on feminism, politics and International Relations. Her research explores feminism and social movement politics, and she has published widely on the global justice and anti-nuclear movements, and on the gendered and feminist politics of protest camps. Catherine co-convenes the international FemNukes research network, which seeks to integrate feminist and decolonial critiques of the global nuclear order, and recently edited a book, with Alison Bartlett, entitled Feminism and Protest Camps: Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings.

This event is part of our regular thematic keynote talks of 15-30 minutes designed to encourage open and frank discourse. Join us for your lunch break to be inspired, share ideas and meet likeminded people. Light refreshments will be provided.

The talk will also be livestreamed on Instagram – join us online if you can’t come in person!