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Archbishop Charles Chaput was just as surprised as almost everyone else by the March 13 election of Argentinean Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, but nevertheless pleased.
"Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Bergoglio, is a man from the new heartland of the global Church; a priest of extraordinary intellectual and cultural strengths," the archbishop said in a statement yesterday.
The pope is "a man deeply engaged in the issues of contemporary life and able to speak to the modern heart; open to the new realities the Church faces; and rooted in a deep love of Jesus Christ," the archbishop said.
As Archbishop Chaput explained in a hastily called news conference at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, he'd gone to Malvern Retreat House that morning to address a priests' retreat and have lunch with them. He was in a car returning home and stuck in traffic when the news came over the radio that white smoke had come from the Sistine Chapel, indicating a pope had been elected in the unusually short time of two days.
"The fact that he was elected very quickly by the cardinals is, I think, a good thing because they quickly converged on him as a candidate," the archbishop said.
Although Cardinal Bergoglio is rumored to have received the second most votes in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict in 2005, Archbishop Chaput suggested his name was not as prominent this time in pre-conclave speculation because of his age – 76.
"I noticed when his name was announced it was very quiet because people didn't expect it. That was interesting. We are constantly surprised by how God acts in the world and I expect we will be surprised in the months and years ahead.
"I don't think people were expecting it because of his age, but you saw when he came out on the balcony he certainly carries his 76 years with grace. I think he has a lot of energy and I think people are enthusiastic about this and I can't blame them."
Although Archbishop Chaput emphasized he does not personally know Pope Francis well, the two did meet in Rome when both were attending the 1997 Synod for America. At that time, Cardinal Bergoglio complimented Archbishop Chaput on a speech he had given and gave him a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which he still has on his desk.
(See the picture and article to which the archbishop refers, "Mary, Untier of Knots," on Wikipedia.)
"It was a gathering of bishops from throughout the world to discuss the New Evangelization in the Americas, which means North and South America," Archbishop Chaput said. "He certainly was impressive when speaking at that meeting. I think he has done a good job leading the local Church in Buenos Aires."
A real asset, Archbishop Chaput suggested, is that Pope Francis is from Latin America and Spanish is his native tongue, in this age when Latin America has more Catholics than any other part of the globe.
"The fact that he speaks Spanish as his own language is a great blessing for them, and I think for the whole Church," he said. "He brings an international dimension to the Church and this is a unique historical moment."
As Archbishop Chaput said in his statement, Pope Francis "is a wonderful choice; a pastor God sends not just to the Church but to every person of good will who honestly yearns for justice peace and human dignity in our time. May God grant him courage and joy, and sustain him with His divine presence."
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Women, Money and Markets 2019
for Women, Money and Markets (1600-1900)
The Third Annual Conference at the University of Sussex
Brighton on June 13th and 14th 2019
9am: Registration opens
Tea and Coffee
Room 1
Panel 1: Text and Ideology
Chair: Emma Newport
Dominic Walker (University of Sussex) "Austenomics" Through a reading of Northanger Abbey (1817), this paper will show that Hayek, acting as the stereotype of a rational, male economist, mistakes the market for a narrower social situation, inadvertently "feminizing" his putatively masculine object of enquiry. Hayek's utopianized free market stands in the same relation to real economic life as Catherine Morland's gothic fantasy does to the realist novel.
Olivia Biber (University of Zurich) "'We None of Us Spoke of Money': Broadening Economic Thought in Gaskell's Cranford (1853)" Cranford is not an enclosed space with its own societal structures; the shabby-genteel women are neither immune to increased industrial and finance capitalism nor to imperialism. Needing to react to external pressures, one of the Cranfordians opens a tea shop, thereby adapting commercial structures entertained in the neighbouring industrial town of Drumble to fit Cranfordian terms. Instead of profit maximisation, however, she aims to combine her tea business with an economy of care.
Sarah Dredge (Sheffield Hallam University) "White hands, brown hands and the "invisible hand": the economy of "active sympathy" in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands". Through tracing her references to figurative and physical hands, this paper argues that Seacole makes manifest the price paid by some for the ideologies of empire, gender and class that sustain British national identity.
11.00am Panel 2: Clothing, value and performance(s)
Chair: Vivienne Richmond
Claire Salmon (Royal College of Art) "Affording Mourning" This paper explores how half-mourning dress can serve to contextualise the ways in which Victorian women of different socio-economic backgrounds upheld the rigid mourning practices imposed upon them. Whether the dress was purchased by the latest known owner, by her employer or simply passed on to her, she was one of the thousands of women living in London who were expected to perform their grief in a strikingly public way.
Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich) "Making Dresses and a Fortune of One's Own: Feminine Economic Independence in Margaret Oliphant's Kirsteen (1890)" In addition to making use of her talent and eye for design, Kirsteen is able to turn her social capital (her descent from the Scottish Douglas family but also her celebrity arising from a tragic romance) into economic capital.
12.15pm LUNCH
Room 1
13.15 Panel 3: Guilds, societies and textiles
Chair: Joyce Goggin
Ben Schneider (University of Oxford) "The Rise and Fall of Hand Spinning" This paper describes and quantifies the growth and decline of hand spinning as a major occupation for women and children in 18th-century Britain.
Amy E. Creighton (The University of York) "Selling Skill: Marketability and Exchange in York's Merchant Taylors' Company, c. 1650-1750" Although a number of textile guilds throughout England were slowly losing members and falling into disarray in the eighteenth century, York's Company was expanding and gaining power within the city. It was not only unique for its reverse trend, it was also unique in that a large portion of its members (both masters and apprentices) were women.
Vivienne Richmond, (Goldsmiths, University of London) "Ann Ecroyd: industrialisation and female philanthropy in nineteenth-century Lancashire" This paper examines women's philanthropy, family and religious networks, the dislocations resulting from industrialisation, tensions between hand- and power-loom weavers, and the material culture of the poor.
14.30 Panel 4: Case studies of female financial management
Chair: Peter Collinge
Frances Nolan (Maynooth University, Ireland) "'I am now five years out of all I have upon earth': Frances Talbot, countess of Tyrconnell, the management of personal property and procurement of goods in exile, 1690-1702". This paper will explore the means by which Lady Tyrconnell's property was transported from Ireland, into England and, in some instances, into France. It will also consider the ways in which the sisters used trade and circumvented customs, examining, in particular, the network of women who were tasked with moving goods around
Elizabeth Spencer (University of York) "'Rul'd in a proper Manner for keeping an Account of Monies received, paid, lent, or expended': Keeping account in the eighteenth-century printed pocketbook" This paper examines the different ways in which Ann Prest, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Porter used (or did not use) pocketbooks to record income and expenditure. The pocketbook was one of, rather than the only space in which women could keep account, and might form part of a wider process of which account ledgers, bills, receipts, and rough drafts were also a part.
Janette Rutterford (Professor Emerita, Open University) "Women managing money: the case of Lady Westmeath" Lady Westmeath sought funds from her estranged husband in the form of pin money, maintenance payments, damages for non payment of promised annuities and payment of her trade debts. She went so far as to encourage her creditors to sue Lord Westmeath. for non-payment of her debts and to organise that his cattle be physically distrained for non-payment of maintenance.
16.15 Room 1
Chair: Catherine Packham
Panel 5: Female economists and the development of Economic Theory
Wendy Robins (Independent) "'A swarm of stock jobbers and tax gatherers': Catharine Macaulay's critique of modern finance and government debt" A major writer on national and international finances, Catherine Macaulay is a rare female economist of the Enlightenment Age.
Philippy David (Walras-Pareto Center, University of Lausanne) "Ellen S. Richards's "Euthenics" and the Birth of the Economics of Consumption" This paper explores how the home economics movement became focused on consumption and consumer choice.
Room 2
Chair: Joyce Goggin
Panel 6: Fit or fat? Risk, value and the female body in the economy
Peter Radford "A Holland Smock to be Run For": The Economics of Women's foot-racing in the 18th Century" What were the chances of winning? Was it worth the risking the entry fee (if there was one)? Was it worth the time and cost of travelling to the competition? Was it worth the time and effort of running even if there was no entry fee? Was it worth the time and effort of preparing and training to run - time away from other activities or duties? The relative values of their time and effort on other activities, therefore, had to be assessed too.
Emma Newport (University of Sussex) "A broad, squat, pursy, fat thing… yet deadly strong": Fat and The (Sexual) Economy in Richardson's Pamela" This paper examines economic agency and the figure (literally and figuratively) of the working-class woman. How does Richardson use fatness and thinness to critique economic activity and female value?
17.15-18.00 Drinks Reception, sponsored by Gale Cengage
18.00 Keynote Lecture: Professor Alannah Tomkins (University of Keele)
Small bills, big implications? Women's trade with the Old Poor Law.
Historical accounts of women in business 1700-1850 have been beset by two key challenges. They have been freighted with concern for the impact of domestic ideology: did it apply an increasingly-powerful brake on female enterprise? They have also been segmented by issues around evidence. Trade directories, advertisements and insurance records have dominated the roster of viable resources and while these materials alone or in combination have yielded significant returns, they can all be qualified by their limited reach. All three were most-readily deployed by prosperous concerns. The AHRC-funded 'Small bills and petty finance' project utilises an alternative class of surviving source for insight into women's trading activity, the voucher or receipt. This keynote lecture will briefly survey the historiography for women's trade in this period, before focusing on the typology of women's involvement on the supply side of the Old Poor Law for goods, services and as intermediaries of various kinds. It will conclude that although the numeric survival of vouchers may seem overwhelming, the next advances in the history of women in commercial work will derive from sources like these.
20.00 Dinner in Brighton (please purchase tickets here)
10.00 Panel 7: Societies, assistance and the workhouse: Women's Networks of trade and exchange
Chair: Louise Falcini
Peter Collinge (University of Keele) "Women, business and eighteenth-century provincial workhouses: open and hidden investment in the supply chain" This paper examines how money collected as part of the poor rate was recirculated within parish economies; repeat orders placed by the overseers shows that these enterprising women were recognised for the consistent quality of goods (if not always the finest) they supplied, and their ability to meet orders in a timely fashion. Echoing Douglas Brown's work on London's Victorian workhouses, analysing eighteenth-century provincial supply chains through overseers' vouchers will also generate a greater appreciation of the poor law system as a significant consumer of goods and services in local economies.
Beatrice Moring (University of Helsiki/Cambridge) "Women, collaboration and the 'grey economy'" This paper analyzes assistance in kind between related and non related women, for example collaboration creating economic advantages like sharing rent or lodging, providing child care that made economic activity possible as well as transfer of small sums of money and goods. The time frame is 1890 to 1918 and the location is Finnish and Swedish urban or industrial areas. The datasets consist of budgets of female headed households before WWI, poor relief records, working class biographies, census and survey data.
Magnus Bohman (Umeå University, Sweden) "Helping women to the market? The impact of new rural organizations on the development of female labour and skills in 19th century Sweden" This paper investigates the role of a new type of agricultural institutions – the Hushållningssällskapet (HHS) – for the development of female labour and skills. Similar organizations, or societies, were founded all over Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries and they shared the paramount aim to improve agriculture.
11.30 Keynote Lecture: D'Maris Coffman (University College, London)
13.15 Panel 8: Colonial women, credit and debt
Chair: Giuseppe de Luca
Eva Brugger (Universität Zürich) "She-Merchants, Female Consumers and Matriarchs. Women in the Colony of New Netherland" Dutch women in the colony as well as indigenous women desired fashionable clothes and textiles as men did likewise. Trading correspondences, ship loadings and inventories offer an insight how women address their longings and how they explored opening markets.
Christine Walker (Yale-NUS Singapore) "The "diverse goods" and "merchandise she delivered to him": Credit and Debt Transactions in Colonial Jamaica" Female colonists, in their capacities as creditors and debtors, greased the wheel of the local, Atlantic, and increasingly global market. Positioned in Jamaica, their localized financial actions had profound consequences. As members of a small free minority population, women aided in the creation of a spectacularly lucrative yet profoundly exploitative from of colonialism which relied upon slave labor.
14.15 Panels 9 and 10
Room 1
Panel 9: Credit, Debt and Autonomy: Women and the Chancery in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Hazel Vosper
Aidan Collins, (University of York) "Women, Bankruptcy and the Court of Chancery, 1680-1750" Women are represented within the court as active participants — such as creditors, debtors, servants, mistresses, co-partners and sole traders — within bankruptcy procedure. Ultimately, such an exploration will demonstrate women's dynamic engagement in the credit-based economy. Chancery not only acted as a debt-recovery mechanism, but also as an institution which provided a platform for the expression of social and cultural narratives of credit, debt and failure.
Emily Ireland (University of Adelaide) "Financial Management Through the Lens of Eighteenth-Century Equity" This paper offers a new exploration of the common law doctrine of coverture: married women's financial autonomy thus intersected with their ability to exercise independent legal agency. One site of this interaction was the court of Chancery.
Room 2
Panel 10: Widows, Credit and (Public) Debt: Women and the Capital Market in 17th-Century Italy
Chair: Joyce Goggin
Marcella Lorenzini and Giuseppe De Luca (University of Milan) "Women and capital in 17th-century northern Italy" Widows in Milan used to invest in public debt and in bills of exchange fairs of Bisenzone, with sums that ranged form 10 to 10,000 lire. Moreover, in case of bankruptcy they were the privileged creditors. Such capital market was liquid and dynamic; loans could be sold to third partied, which contributed to create a lively secondary market.
15.45 Panel 11a Female investors, shareholders and directors in the nineteenth century
Chairs: Joyce Goggin and Emma Newport
Hazel Vosper (University of Lancaster) "Women Investors and Risk-aversion: Challenges and Opportunities in Recovering Historic Behaviour" This paper will argue that certain levels of aggregation can obscure a more complex, and potentially more interesting, picture of risk in relation to women's financial agency. This suggestion will be considered from two perspectives. Firstly, the extent to which the "sweet simplicity of the three per Cents" (Disraeli), actually represented a low risk investment by the end of the nineteenth century in England. Secondly, the underlying assumption that the financial securities in a women's portfolio was an expression of her own agency.
Carry van Lieshout (University of Cambridge) "Women on Board: female entrepreneurship in 19th century Britain" This paper examines female directors in the context of wider director networks as well as wider patterns of female entrepreneurship, and discusses the different pathways open to different types of female entrepreneurs.
Magdalene Antreou (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation) "Bridging separate spheres in a family type economy: Women bank shareholders in Cyprus (1899-1930)" The investment activity of women in Cyprus is as old as the island's local banking system. This paper seeks to promote the argument that the investment activity of women within the family framework blurs the lines between domestic and public life and punches holes in the "separate spheres" argument
17.00 Panel 11b Female investors, shareholders and directors in the nineteenth century
Anders Perlinge (Institute for Economic and Business History Research at Stockholm School of Economics) "Female Financial Agency in Stockholm 1855–1880" There have been contradictory views about the importance of private share investments in financing industrialization, when compared to direct investments or credits from the banks. Empirical evidence from this study seems to indicate that private investors even so added substantial capital, perhaps even fostered the resilience of the private credit market, which sector dominated the capital market for long even in the capital city. Also, female financial agency formed part of an even more important forthcoming change: democratization.
Áine Gallagher (Queen's Management School) "Independent Women: Shareholders in the Age of the Suffragettes" In this era, when the suffragette movement was at its height, we analyse whether women were also demonstrating their independence through their investment decisions. Using a novel dataset of almost 500,000 shareholders in some of the largest British railways, we find that women represented about 30 to 40 per cent of shareholders in each railway company in our sample at this time. This implies that women were not only being influential in affecting political change during this era, they were also playing a very important role in financial markets. However, we find that they were deliberately excluded from being eligible for election to boards of directors.
18.30 Closing of the conference and drinks reception sponsored by Gale Cengage
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Alannah Tomkins Professor D'Maris Coffmann
(Keele) (UCL)
Director of Humanities Research Professor in Economics and
Principal Investigator of Finance of the Built Environment
"Small bills and petty finance: (Click for more here)
co-creating the history of the
Old Poor Law"
(Click: https://thepoorlaw.org/)
To celebrate the first year of the AHRC funded project, "Small bills and petty finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law", a joint investigation led by the Universities of Keele and Sussex, this year's conference theme is 'Petty Finance'. 'Petty Finance' not only refers to the perceived marginalisation of women's finances in traditional economic histories and literature and its historically 'petty' stature amongst academics, but also to the little-used records of female financial practice, including household bills, gambling records and so on, to which the 'Small Bills and Petty Finance' project is drawing attention and increasing ease of access through digitisation.
In keeping with the 'Petty Finance' theme we invite exploration, whether literary, historical or economic, of the experiences of women across the social spectrum. Although we welcome submissions on a wide range of topics connected with women's involvement in the marketplace and finance, of especial interest to the conference are women involved in the receipt or delivery of relief; volunteerism; working class experience; trading networks; social and/or economic bonds forged between the poor and the non-poor; attitudes and emotions associated with wealth and poverty; women's engagement in banking, finance, gambling, or exchange, especially as documented through bills, petty finance documents or other under-used sources.
The conference will address themes including consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern day issues about the presence and position of women in the economy and media.
More broadly, we welcome submissions in the form of individual papers, panels and roundtable discussions on the following themes:
The varying practices of women associated with currency, global and/or domestic markets and marketability
Material practices associated with value, exchange and/or female creativity
Women as investors, risk-takers or gamblers
Women as producers and/or consumers in the literary or other marketplaces (including, but not limited to, food, clothing, agriculture and raw materials)
Representations of women at work or women's involvement in: Trade and industry; professional services (such as law, finance, hospitality and the media); domestic service; the rural economy
The place of women in the literary marketplace (past and present)
We particularly welcome cross-cultural considerations of the above issues. Please send 300-word abstracts to firstname.lastname@example.com with an indication of your proposed format (individual paper, panel, roundtable, etc.).
If you are submitting a proposal for a panel, please include an abstract for each paper (up to 300 words each). Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for the edited volume that will be published after the conference.
Deadline for submissions: March 1st 2019
Conference Organisers: Dr Emma Newport (University of Sussex) and Dr Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam)
Second Annual Conference at the University of Amsterdam
June 2018
Building on the success of the conference created by Dr Emma Newport and co-organised by Amy Murat at King's College London in 2017, the second Women, Money and Markets conference will continue to address contemporary scholarship on the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, theatre and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern day issues about the presence and position of women in the economy, the market and the media.
Our confirmed keynote speakers are Danielle van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam), author of Women and Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in the Northern Netherlands c. 1580-1815, and Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, who specializes in British eighteenth-century literature and culture and feminist and cultural theory. She has published on eighteenth-century women writers and eighteenth-century consumer culture, and mostly recently on the way that the British slave trade has been remembered and represented in the popular imagination.
Women, Money and Markets,2nd Annual Conference
University of Amsterdam
June 7th and 8th, 2018
Chair: Dr Joyce Goggin (UvA), Co-chair: Dr Emma Newport (University of Sussex)
Venue: Doelenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, Single 425,
Day One
Panel Contributors
9:00 – 9:30
Joyce Goggin and Emma Newport
Welcome, housekeeping
1: Women, Investment and Mercantilism
Chair: Emma Newport
Janette Rutterford (Open University) "Women Investors in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century"
Helen Paul (University of Southampton), "Women and the use of power of attorney in the early eighteenth century: a South Sea case study"
Eileen Chanin (Australian National University) "Colonial Women, Growing Fortune, Moving Money: Colonial women merchants in India"
Keynote 1
Danielle v. d. Heuvel
Chair: Joyce Goggin
2: Women and Literary Marketplaces
Chair: Helen Paul
1. Clara Dawson (University of Manchester) "Literary Value and the Gift Annual in the Early-Nineteenth Century"
2. Alexis Wolf (Birbeck, university of London) "Editor with a Capital E: Women-Authored Biographies and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace"
3. Christine Pullen (Ind.) "'Whiteley's was Her Happy Hunting Ground': Commerce and Consumerism in Amy Levy's Novels"
4. Adam Schoene (Cornell University) "Rags to Riches: Poverty and Domesticity in Riccoboni and Charrière"
3: Oliphant (1)
Chair: Peter Collinge
"An Excellent Man of Business": The Female Banker and Her Socio-Economic
Agency in Margaret Oliphant's Hester (1883)
Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich)
Olivia Biber (University of Zurich)
4: Women and Their Contributions to Local (Global) Economies
Corina Brumaru (independent) "Growing Hemp in Transylvania Women and dress, Fabrics and consumption"
Elizabeth Spencer ('The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) "Accounting for the Wardrobe in Eighteenth-Century England"
Kyung Hwa Eun (University of Alberta) "Frances Burney's Literary Realism: Ephemerality of Shopping and Daily Life in Camilla"
Day Two
Panel Contributors
6: Oliphant (2)
Finance, Capital and Value
Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam) "'Of pride and joy no common rate': Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant's Hester"
Jakob Nielson (Aarhus University ) "'Beyond the Writers Power': Financial Forms and the Affordances of Gender in Margaret Oliphant's Hester (1883)"
Keynote 2
Elizabeth Wallace
Chair: Marieke de Goede
"Lady Credit Among the Bankers: The Female Body as an Imaginative Site in Early Capitalist Discourse"
7: Female Consumerism, Activism and Radicalism
Angelika Trawinska (Warsaw School of Economics SGH)
Ewelina Nowak (Warsaw School of Economics SGH)
Flore Janssen (Birkbeck University) "Work, Money, Influence: International Consumer Activism and Labour Legislation"
Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin) "'The Ladies' Committee': Women and the Mechanics' Institute on the Goldfields of Victoria"
8: Gender and the Formation of Political Economy
Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)
Richard Adelman (University of Sussex)
Elisabeth Wallmann (University of Warwick)
Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge)
9: Women and Image
Peter Collinge (Keele) "Image and Meaning in Joseph Wright's Portraits of Two English Businesswomen"
Lieke van Deinsen (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) "Image and Imago: Branding Female Authorship in the Late eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic's Literary Market Place"
Nora Rodríguez (Universidad de Sevilla) "Dedications and Symbolic Capital: The Patronesses of Drama in Queen Anne's Reign"
We welcome submissions in the form of individual papers, panels and roundtable discussions on the following themes:
· The varying practices of women associated with currency, global and/or domestic markets and marketability
· Material practices associated with value, exchange and/or female creativity
· Women as producers and/or consumers in the literary or other marketplaces (including, but not limited to, food, clothing, agriculture and raw materials)
· Representations of women at work or women's involvement in:
o Trade and industry
o Professional services (e.g. law, finance, hospitality and the media)
o Domestic service
o The rural economy
o The stock market and speculation
o The place of women in the literary marketplace (past and present)
We particularly welcome cross-cultural considerations of the above issues.
Guide for submissions:
Please send 300 word abstracts to the conference email address (email@example.com) plus a covering email outlining briefly your proposed format (individual paper, panel, roundtable, etc.). If you are submitting a proposal for a panel, please include an abstract for each paper (up to 300 words each). Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for a monograph to be published in conjunction with the conference.
Important dates
Deadline for submissions: March 15th 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 15th 2018
Deadline for final paper submissions: April 1st 2018
Organising committee:
Chair: Dr. Joyce Goggin
Co-chair: Dr. Emma Newport
The conference is generously supported by ASCA (The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis). http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/cesk/index.aspx
For any enquiries regarding the programme, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
For all general enquiries, please contact: email@example.com
We look forward to seeing you at Women, Money and Markets (1700-1900) in June 2018.
Joyce Goggin, Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam
Emma Newport, Teaching Fellow, the University of Sussex
We would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals
Please see below for our panel selection
King's College London, Thursday May 11th 2017
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Hannah Barker (University of Manchester)
Caroline Criado-Perez, OBE
One of the leading voices in the campaign for female representation on the banknote and an active promoter and supporter of women in the media
Programme outline
Women, Money and Markets (1750-1850)
King's College London
May 11th 2017
Women, Money and Markets (1750-1850)
Thursday 11 May 2017, Strand Campus, King's College London
Supported by the Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King's and the Arts & Humanities Research Institute
Registration, Refreshments and Welcome
Registration: Old Committee Room
Refreshments and welcome: Council Room (K2.29)
Session one
Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Bankers, Financiers and Grocers: Women in Business
Chair: Joyce Goggin (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Catriona Macleod (University of Glasgow), 'Women's financial management in Scotland, c.1750-1850'
Peter Collinge (Keele University), 'A taste for finance: businesswomen and the grocery trade in Georgian England'
Amy Louise Erickson (University of Cambridge), 'Estimating businesswomen in London, 1700-1750'
River Room
Inside the Archives: Women's Material Lives
Chair: Lara Perry (University of Brighton)
Madeleine Pelling (University of York), 'Selling the Duchess: narratives of celebrity in A catalogue of the Portland Museum'
Val Derbyshire (University of Sheffield), '"The phantom coach": The longings and letters of Alicia Maria Greame, a woman for sale'
Amy Murat (King's College London), '"I value it as a gift from him": Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the material worth of friendship'
Room K2.40
Literature by Women as Economics: Rethinking Female Epistemological and Economic Agency
Chair: Sarah Crofton (King's College London)
Joanna Rostek (Universität Giessen, Germany), 'Re-centring female epistemological agency, or: how to find women economists in the period 1750-1850'
Barbara Straumann (Universität Zurich, Switzerland), 'The Eccentricity of Female Economic Agency: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford'
Morning coffee break
10.30-11.00 Council Room (K2.29)
Keynote Speaker: Hannah Barker (University of Manchester)
'"For the benefit of her family": Women, families and business during the early industrial revolution'
Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
12.00-13.00 Council Room (K2.29)
Session two
Edmond J.Safra Lecture Theatre
Global Markets: Currency, Trade and Exchange
Chair: Anne Goldgar (King's College London)
Jelena Šesnić (University of Zagreb, Croatia), 'Sentimental women in the post-revolutionary American geoculture of the 1790s'
Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna, Italy), 'Small change: forms of currency and female monetary practices in 19th-century East Africa'
Joyce Goggin (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands), 'Mrs Centlivre and the South Sea'
Mark Hay (King's College London) '"The matriarch of Amsterdam high finance": Johanna Borski and the establishment of the Bank of the Netherlands'
River Room
Working Women: Women and Employment
Chair: Amy Erickson (University of Cambridge)
Kathryne Crossley (University of Oxford), 'Oxford laundresses: family and college economies'
Carolyn D. Williams (University of Reading), '"This uncommon employment": women, makeshifts and morality in the second half of the eighteenth century'
Pattie Flint (King's College London), 'Having your cake and eating it too: cookbooks as commodity'
Theresa Mackay (Royal Roads University, British Columbia) 'Women at work: innkeeping in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1790-1840'
Contemporary Issues in a Global Context
(Institute for New Economic Thinking INET YSI Gender Economics and Social Sciences Working Group)
'Femina Oeconomica? Gender effects in the society and related economic policies'
Chair: Marcella Corsi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Francesca Bertolino (London School of Economics / International Training Centre of the ILO), 'Diverging gender equality trajectories in Italy and Spain meet austerity: the end of progressive policy making?'
Claire Moll (Centre for Theology and Community) 'Attitudes not Quotas: The hidden cost of the synthetic normalization of women leadership'
Erica Aloe (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), 'The relationship between labour policies and unpaid care work. Evaluation of the potential impact of the Italian labour market reform on the care system and gender equality'
Dhritisree Sarkar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), 'Possible Impacts of Demonetization of Currency Notes on Women in India'
Giulia Porino (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), 'Diversity is an asset. How increasing the representation of different interests in the financial sector top positions could
promote the public interest perspective in finance'
Session three
14.45-15.45 Edmond J.Safra Lecture Theatre
Money, Management and Motherhood in Austen
Chair: Christine Kenyon-Jones (King's College London)
Rita J. Dashwood (University of Warwick) '"Abilities, as well as affections": The surrogate manager in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion'
Lynda Hall (Chapman University), 'Valuing women in Jane Austen's fiction'
Helen Charman (University of Cambridge), 'Paradoxical productivity: the maternal economy from Austen to Eliot'
River Room
Imagining the Economy: Signs, Credit and Value in Women's Writing
Chair: David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University/ University of Roehampton)
Catherine Packham (University of Sussex), '"Extreme Credulity": Wollstonecraft, the 1797 Bank Restriction Act, and the credit instrument of fiction'
Silvana Colella (University of Macerata, Italy), 'Doing it like a woman: Charlotte Riddell and the economic imagination'
Jon Dietrick (Babson College, USA), 'Hester in the marketplace: women's labor in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter'
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837
Material Girls: Trading and Manoeuvring in a Material World
Chair: Amy Murat (King's College London)
Rebecca Mason (University of Glasgow), 'Moveables, markets, and married women's access to credit in eighteenth-century Scotland'
Johanna Holmes (Royal Holloway, University of London), 'Enterprising painters: women in the art market 1820-1850'
Miriam Al Jamil (Birkbeck, University of London), 'The "fiery force" of Eleanor Coade's business success'
Afternoon coffee break 15.45-16.15 Council Room (K2.29)
Session four
Edmond J.Safra Lecture Theatre
Jane Austen and Property: An Anniversary Panel
Chair: Elizabeth Eger (King's College London)
Christine Kenyon-Jones (King's College London), 'Entail in the work of Jane Austen'
Helen Paul (University of Southampton), 'Ways to Avoid Potential Financial Pitfalls for the Women of Jane Austen's Time'
Emma Clery (University of Southampton), 'Risk and speculation in Jane Austen's dealings with the book market'
River Room
Author and Image: Marketing the Woman Writer
Chair: Emma Newport (University of Sussex)
Lara Perry (University of Brighton), 'George Smith, publisher and the commercial potential of women authors' portraits'
Christine Clark (University of Newcastle, Australia) 'Creating the Commodity: Henry Austen Re-Writing Jane'
Diana Arbaiza (University of Antwerp, Belgium), '"Not a woman's work:" Cecilia Böhl von Faber's paradoxical writings on female authors in the literary market'
Money Matters: Acting, Writing and Marketplaces
Chair: Emrys Jones (King's College London)
David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University/ University of Roehampton), 'Drury Lane and Covent Garden: Theatrical Funds, actress and female playwright earnings, lifetime pension annuities, c.1780-1815'
Nancy Henry (University of Tennessee, USA), 'Charlotte Riddell's financial life'
Wendy Robins (Open University), 'Catherine Macaulay's Plea for Copyright, 1774'
17.30 Conference closing speeches Council Room (K2.29)
18.00-19.00 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre.
Keynote speaker: Caroline Criado-Perez
Please take your seats by 17.45
19.00-20.00 Council Room (K2.29)
Private reception for conference delegates only
Conference outline:
In 2017, Jane Austen will feature on the £10 note as the sole female representative on English currency. To mark this occasion, and explore its problematic significance, the English department at King's is running a one-day conference with the aim to consider debates about women in relation to ideas of value, market, marketability, as well as debates about different forms of currency and exchange amongst women, and the place of the female writer in the literary marketplace past and present. The conference will address themes including consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern day issues about the presence and position of women in the economy and media.
We welcome submissions in the form of individual papers, panels and roundtable discussions on the following themes:
The varying practices of women associated with currency, global and/or domestic markets and marketability
Material practices associated with value, exchange and/or female creativity
Women as producers and/or consumers in the literary or other marketplaces (including, but not limited to, food, clothing, agriculture and raw materials)
Representations of women at work or women's involvement in:
Trade and industry
Professional services (such as law, finance, hospitality and the media)
Domestic service
The rural economy
The place of women in the literary marketplace (past and present)
We particularly welcome cross-cultural considerations of the above issues.
Please send 300 word abstracts to the conference email address (firstname.lastname@example.com) with an indication of your proposed format (individual paper, panel, roundtable, etc.). If you are submitting a proposal for a panel, please include an abstract for each paper (up to 300 words each). Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for the edited volume that will be published after the conference.
Conference Organisers: Dr Emma Newport (University of Sussex) and Amy Murat (King's College London)
For enquiries regarding the programme, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
For all general enquiries, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
The conference is generously supported by CESK (Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King's) and AHRI (Arts and Humanities Research Institute). http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/cesk/index.aspx


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Monthly Roundup #12 - December 2016
This Month In Videos
Doctor Who The Fan Show - The Gift (A Christmas Story) With Frances Barber
It was an absolute pleasure work with the wonderful Frances Barber on this week's Christmassy episode of Doctor Who: The Fan Show which I co-produced! Are you sitting comfortably?
Doctor Who: The Fan Show - The Return of Doctor Mysterio Reactions
SPOILER WARNING! Luke Spillane and I discuss this year's Christmas Special, The Return of Doctor Mysterio!
Doctor Who: The Fan Show - Q&A With Christel Dee & Luke Spillane
Luke Spillane and I finally tackle Doctor Who: The Fan Show's Quick Questions in which I reveal a big secret...
In Other News
Doctor Who Magazine Interview
Many thanks to Doctor Who Magazine for interviewing us in their 2017 Yearbook - out now!
New Photos
I received a few more shots from a photoshoot I did with the talented MattEleven Photography earlier this year. He's a fantastic photographer, do check him out!!!
Happy New Year!
Jumping on the #2016bestnine bandwagon but decided to choose my personal favourites. 2016 has been a strange year but a lotta good stuff went down that I'll forever be thankful for. Roll on 2017. 💯🙌
That's all folks! Don't forget to follow me on Twitter (@ChristelDee) and Facebook for regular updates.
I'll be back at the end of next month for January's roundup.
Until then, Happy New Year and have a great January!


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Chris and Stephanie were a delight to work with from the very start. They had a small outdoor wedding at Cleveland Park with just a few close friends and family. With Capilano Lake and the coast mountains as their backdrop it made for a stunning and memorable ceremony. Here are some of their moments and memories captured.
While setting up for the formal family shots, I noticed this cute moment they were having each other.....
.....I love capturing these moments when the couple becomes lost in their own world.
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// a note from the designer
We all work hard. Some days so hard the word 'nap' sounds like a vacation to a tropical island. ckd summer collection was created not for the hard days, but for the days that aren't so hard. The days that Pinterest likes to call "learn to love the process". The collection was created for those Friday's at 5:30pm when I meet Dan at the train station to catch the 6:15 train to the Jersey Shore, where we sip on our extra large Bud Lights and double check the weather for sunshine. And for those mornings at home when I allow myself to sleep-in until 10 am and do nothing for the next three hours other than sit in my aunts backyard and refill my coffee. Or for those moments when I'm running from work to a meeting on the opposite side of town seriously sweating and laughing at myself at the thought of my crazy life. Life really isn't that serious. So I purposely took the time to stop and enjoy what I love to do and created a collection with bright colors, and Flamingos. Yup. Flamingos. His name is Floyd the Flamingo, and I can't wait for you to meet him tomorrow.
I've learned to "love the process" a little more while designing this collection. I hope you enjoy it as much I did creating it [launch date tomorrow!]. x -C


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The beginning of the year couldn't possibly pass without a post about resolutions, could it?! I suppose I have already broken some of my goals (I prefer this term over resolutions) for the year, but look forward to a year of discovering more about myself and the world I inhabit with billions of others.
To come up with some of these goals, I used the Goal Setting Workshop app on my iPad. If you know me, if tech is not involved, the likelihood of me doing it gets lesser and lesser (hence why I now have a Kindle for reading convenience!). The app got me thinking about the things I wanted to accomplish not only this year, but for the next great while. Below are some of the things – and the reasons behind them – that I'd like to accomplish this year.
My goals for the upcoming year:
1. Write in my blog or write in my novel at least once a day
OK, so I already lost out on this one; perhaps the goal of making a point to write in both more often is more practical…
To advance and keep sharp my writing skills and to keep my creativity going.
2. Lose 55 pounds
To live a longer, more fulfilled life. To feel better and do more things. To become the me and look like the me I've always wanted. – PLUS, it will make traveling easier and more pleasant!!
3. Cut down to three pops per week
To help me lose weight and feel much better. To keep toxins and artificial sweeteners away from my body.
4. Cultivate a cleaner room
So I can be more presentable, have more space, be more organized, and become less materialistic by letting go.
5. Sleep more
So I can be at 100% each and everyday, to be more attentive and active, to feel better and become healthier.
6. Set up a dream board
So I can visualize my goals and dreams, and through doing that visually, know what I want to accomplish and get out of life.
7. Be on time more often!
Unfortunately for me, my first professor of the day last semester didn't place a lot of emphasis on being on time, so I wasn't. This bad habit of being late everyday needs to go away!!
Outside of the above list, I want to continue to travel (if I can find a travel mate, I'd maybe like to see the Chichen Itza in Mexico – being 2012 and all), learn more Spanish through a class I'm taking at college, learn how to shoot better with manual settings on my camera, be more helpful and understanding with family and friends (and spend more time with each), work out with a renewed frenzy (BIGGEST LOSER!!), and finally get through some pictures and share them!
However, one of my biggest goals which is so far working out, is
finding more time using some of my spare time to read. I'm already halfway through a short novel ("Deadline") and am in the reading mood. Let's hope it lasts!
Here's to a year of goal-making and goal-achieving!! Happy 2012 – I think it's going to be a good one.


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U.S. Military, Critics at Odds over 'Special Groups'
In the ongoing conflict in Iraq, U.S. military commanders stress that their main enemies are the so-called "Special Groups," Shiite militants who receive training and equipment from Iran. U.S. officials say the special groups are loosely connected to the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr. Critics, however, argue that the focus on special groups is part of a crafted political strategy that wholly exaggerates their role.
MELISSA BLOCK, Host:
U.S. military commanders in Iraq stress that their main enemies now are what they call special groups. They say these groups of Shiite militants receive training and equipment from Iran. The military believes they're loosely connected to the militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, but some Middle East analysts argue the U.S. military is deliberately exaggerating the role of these groups.
NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Baghdad on how U.S. commanders and their critics view this category of Iraqi militants.
ERIC WESTERVELT: U.S. commanders here now say the biggest threat in Iraq has shifted from Sunni extremist to Shiite militants. The Sunni stronghold of (unintelligible), south of Baghdad, is part of what became infamous as the triangle of death. Major General Rick Lynch(ph) is the commander of the Third Infantry Division.
BLOCK: This was the worst, this was the place that was pure al-Qaida. Every time we built the police station it got destroyed, every time I flew in, we came under attack. This was nothing but rubble, this was a pure war zone - but it's constantly improving.
WESTERVELT: These days, General Lynch walks around the town without a bulletproof vest. The local Sunnis, he says, drove out al-Qaida in Iraq by forming American-funded self-defense forces called Sons of Iraq. Smoking a cigar in front of a newly opened town hall, General Lynch says the problem in his division's area today is Iranian trained and equipped special groups.
LYNCH: In a course of the last four weeks, we have come across 28 Shia extremists that were either trained in Iran, or they were trained by people from Iran here in Iraq. They told our interrogators that. So it's particularly troublesome. It is. It's Iranian influence on Shia extremists.
WESTERVELT: In addition to training, the military believes Iranian-linked special groups provide many of the armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators that continue to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. And then there are the new rockets raining down on Baghdad's Green Zone.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: All stations, it's battle stations...
WESTERVELT: At a makeshift American combat outpost in the Sadr city district, word comes over the battalion's radio that several 107-millimeter rockets have been launched at the Green Zone. The Americans respond with air power.
MAN: Be advised, that brigade will be engaging, they will be engaging a target with help fire. I'll copy over...
WESTERVELT: The militiamen who launched the rockets have fled, but an armed predator drone homes in on the launch site and the rocket tubes a dozen blocks north of the American position.
WESTERVELT: So far this month, Shiite militants have launched nearly 30 rockets at the Green Zone. U.S. Colonel John Hork(ph) blames Iranian special groups. He commands the Fourth Infantry Division's Third Brigade, the American unit fighting in Sadr City.
BLOCK: The sophistication of the engineering of the rail systems that they have been using as well as the rockets themselves and the ability to have pretty good direction and aiming - we believe is a training that cannot be conducted internally inside Sadr City but has to be coming from a country that has a fairly sophisticated military background.
WESTERVELT: The military's use of the term special groups began to emerge about a year ago. In March of 2007, U.S. forces detained Khife Kasali(ph) and his brother Lief in Bazra. Also detained with them was Ali Mussad Abdu(ph), a Lebanese national believed linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group. During interrogations by Americans, Khife Kassali claimed he was the Iraqi leader of Iranian-trained units in Moqtada al-Sadr's militia. Kassali said they aimed to emulate Hezbollah's structure, and the military says he referred to them as special groups.
BLOCK: This was his terminology, it was his characterization.
WESTERVELT: U.S. Army Major General Kevin Burdner says special groups, as described by Kaz Kasali, were created by Iranian commandos from the revolutionary guards al-Quds or Jerusalem force. The Quds force's main task is training and supporting Shiite paramilitary groups outside Iran. General Burdner says Kasali was clear about who was supporting the special groups.
BLOCK: They characterize them as such because the special groups were the ones that benefited most directly from the funding, the training, the equipping and the tactical guidance that they received from their Quds force network sources.
WESTERVELT: U.S. military commanders acknowledge that the link between special groups and Sadr's militia known as the (unintelligible) Madhi or Madhi army is murky and tenuous. General Burdner argues that these special groups are no longer under Sadr's full control.
BURDNER: These are individuals who may have been associated, certainly, had association and affiliation with the (unintelligible) al-Mahdi or other elements but have since operated outside the guidance of the Sadr trend.
WESTERVELT: Iran has consistently denied supporting Shiite militia or special groups in Iraq, but few independent analysts doubt that Iran had indeed trained and supplied some Shiite militants now operating here. However, to many the idea that there's a powerful splinter group that has abandoned Moqtada al-Sadr and become a tool of Iran simply doesn't hold up.
BURDNER: The whole idea of the special groups was essentially a creation of the U.S. military for its own political purpose.
WESTERVELT: Gareth Porter is a historian and Middle East analyst. He argues that the use of the term special groups is part of a psychological operations strategy so the military can pursue separate political and military tracks with Sadr's organization.
BLOCK: So what they did was to come up with this idea of special groups, which was the idea that there were both moderates and extremists in the Sadrist movement - the moderates wanting to cooperate with the United States, the extremists as supposedly having abandoned Sadr and become part of the Iranian special groups.
WESTERVELT: Porter and other analysts say the military's focus on special groups obscures the fact that the U.S. is currently entangled in an enormous internal power struggle within the majority Shiite community - between Sadr and the ruling U.S.-backed Shiite alliance. More broadly, they assert, the Bush administration is using the special groups designation to try to suggest that overcoming Iranian influence in Iraq is simply a matter of defeating one extremist breakaway faction.
BLOCK: When in fact you're up against a Mahdi army which is certainly tens of thousands strong. If that were to be acknowledged very straightforwardly, it would obviously be a political problem in trying to convince Congress and the public that this a doable proposition.
WESTERVELT: Moreover, the American fixation on special groups, Porter says, masks the reality that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his political bloc have close ties to Iran that are in many ways deeper and more enduring than Sadr's links to the Islamic Republic. Mahdi army fighters themselves don't use the term special groups. One of Sadr's militia commanders in Baghdad known as Abu Mushtabap(ph) says he never heard of the term. The American and Iraqi armies, he says, are simply at war with us.
Eric Westervelt, NPR News, Baghdad.
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Once a month, we meet to chat about our latest read. October kicks off with Shirley Jackson's spooky We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The book is slim, so there's still time to finish it for next week's meeting. Buy with us and get 15% off. Third Thursday Book Club focuses on literary fiction, but we welcome other book clubs as well. If you're interested in hosting one or bringing your group to our store, contact us! Next month's pick is The Mothers, a debut novel by Brit Bennett that's getting a lot of buzz.


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Virgin Media 'falling short' on broadband speeds
BBC News
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40504354
Category: technologyNews
Published: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:26:50 GMT
Description: A BBC Watchdog investigation has found Virgin Media customers across the UK are receiving only a fraction of the broadband speed they were promised. It found the company had been signing up too many customers in some areas, leading to issues relating to "over-utilisation". Some customers were receiving just 3% of the speeds promised, it said. Virgin Media said it was "disappointed" that it "fell short" of its own high standards on broadband speeds.
Chief executive Tom Mockridge said: "We apologise for the inconvenience to these customers and have resolved the issues they raised. "All of our sales agents have been re-briefed on the company's sales policy, and we are providing additional training to ensure everyone complies with it." Virgin Media has not confirmed the exact numbers of affected customers. Virgin Media customers in the affected areas were struggling to complete tasks such as streaming video, listening to music and downloading games, despite paying for speeds of about 200Mbps, Watchdog found. At the end of May 2017, Mr Mockridge said 100Mbps would now be the "broadband standard" for the company and the industry needed to improve the way it advertised speeds, so customers were not "hoodwinked".


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Sew What is an intergenerational sewing group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month during the school year. It starts at 6:30, right after Wednesday Night Supper and it's open to people of all ages.
Each month Sew What! does a different sewing project to support missions. In the past, projects have included sensory toys for Buddy Break, drainage bags for women with breast cancer, Valentine's cards for kids with serious illnesses, bibs for older adults in nursing homes, pillowcase dresses for girls in Guatemala, cot sheets and fishing games for the Early Childhood Center.
Stop by the sewing room (room 102) after dinner (6:30) to see what you can do to help!
March — pillows for the Barnabas network
April — sensory items for Buddy Break and special needs Sunday School
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Earlier Event: March 7The Radical Wesley Lenten Study
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Visiting my peeps
I'm headed off tomorrow morning to hang with some old friends (pictured above) who live in Vegas. Hurray! But I'm leaving Saben for two whole days for the first time ever and its going to be so sad....yet fun. I'm also excited to try gambling for the first time ever. I have around ten grand to play with, but once I use it up, I will definitely stop, I don't want to be one of those people who throw away all their money on gambling. I was reading the fine print on my plane ticket today and thought I better post this in case my plane crashes:
I just hope my death or dismemberment isn't done on purpose, I could lose my benefits and that would stink.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
This is my amazing sister Shauna. (Kyle's little sis actually)
Not only is she funny, smart and totally hot, she does stunt motorcycling. I don't really relate to the motorcycle bit, but I'm awfully impressed and just had to brag. And I did have a blast riding her little dirt bike once. If you ever meet her, be sure to ask her if she's ever dated a billionaire.
Friday, September 22, 2006
We hired someone to saw up our concrete parking pad. I gave them the EXACT dimensions & they estimated it to cost $450. Six hours of sawin later, the bill came to $850. Apparently they charge by the foot, and the estimator "guessed" it to be about 150 ft instead of the actual 350 ft.
How the heck does a guy who's job it is to estimate screw that up so bad? He should have been able to estimate it exactly by doing a little math. Even I could have estimated it exactly if I'd been given their price per foot. For pete's sake. Anyways, we only paid $450 for it, so who am I to complain?
So far we have hired six people to work on our house for us. Three of them have made the stupidest mistakes ever, or had absolutely no clue what they were doing.
1. The concrete cutting estimator - story I just told
2. The "handyman" who told me he did plumbing and then spent 12 hours doing our plumbing completely wrong. Apparently the "guys at the hardware" store told him how to do it. I could have gone and asked the hardware store guys how to do it. Why would I hire someone to do that? It took the new plumber only 3 hours to redo it.
3. Then there was the "Concrete Guy" who told radically inappropriate jokes all the time and who didn't know how to read the concrete dye card to get the shade of gray we wanted. I read the dye card and saw we needed 6 bags of dye. He brought 4. They went to go get more, the concrete sat too long in the truck & the whole project went to hell immediately after. Did I mention this concrete was being poured directly onto our brand new kitchen cabinets? When I say going to hell, I really mean it. (it all turned out ok, it always does...right??)
Well this is the polar opposite of "small joys fridays", I prefer to call it "Trash Talkin Fridays." I hope you enjoyed it all the same and if you were unaware before, you have now been enlightened to the perils of hiring people to do your crap for you.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Saben's First Birthday Party
"Yah, yah, it's your birthday, whoop-dee-doo.....I'm busy playing with this cool toy and rockin my new hairstyle."
"If you don't quit playing with my toy, I'm going to lay down and then ....lay here some more. Sharing is so overrated."
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Kari: Look at the pig Luke!
Luke: Look at the pig's hips!
Kari: Uh... yah, look at those...hips
Luke: She got her hips from her children.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Homer: Yah, pretty much... cept we drove around in a van solving mysteries.
Childhood crushes
ps. Don't worry Misha, we fast forwarded through every mildly suspenseful part. I just assumed disney was great for kids, but that shows what an idiot I am. How the heck do you explain taxation without representation to a nearly 5 year old?????
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Beauty is finding a recipe for triple chocolate chip cookies that has the audacity to force one and three quarter pounds of chocolate into just 32 cookies.
Beauty is a cool cloudy fall afternoon and a warm cozy kitchen that reeks of chocolate.
Day 2
Beauty is having a terrible no good very bad day and remembering there is an obscenely chocolately cookie waiting for you in the freezer.
Beauty is a woman's intuition that somehow knew triple chocolate chip cookies were going to be needed in the very near future.
(beauty is...is the theme from mama says om this week)
Tiny steps towards mutiny
Recently, Saben's favorite part of the day is diaper changing time. It's not that my son particularly relishes a clean bum, he just really enjoys kicking me. The moment I lay him on the changing table, the games begin. His little legs thrash around aiming straight for my midsection, chest and hands as they try to get to his diaper. Awful, unruly behavior to be sure... except for the joyous giggles and twinkling eyes that accompany it.
Patty cake? Boring. Tickle games? eh. Trying to kick the daylights out of mommy? Hilarious. I can just imagine myself in some public bathroom in a few months where my son is pounding my midsection while I struggle to secure his diaper and people shaking their heads wondering why moms today don't discipline and actually let kids kick them.
It's not that I don't want it to stop, I sure don't find it particularly hilarious. But whenever I say no, he looks so confused for a second. The giggles die, the eyes look sad. And then he shrugs and lands a solid one on my arm, laughing again. I even tried gently flicking his little legs in a moment of frustration. (or maybe not so gently after he delivers a blow to the gut) The instant change from glee to heartbreak killed me.
Saben's favorite things
His "Shapes" book. He has ten books in this series that all look quite similar, but the shapes one is his favorite. He brings it to me at least ten times a day saying "ship". Which brings us to....
The word "Oval" Saben loves to open the shapes book to the oval page and then he will say "Oval" about ten times, quite proud of himself. The best part was when he pointed to a giant letter "O" in a magazine I was reading and said "Oval" And the way he sticks his lips out in a pucker when he says it.
Along the same lines, his favorite toy is the new shape sorter I got for him when Kyle was gone for twelve days. He is very good at it and loves taking all the blocks out & then putting them back in at least 5-10 times a day.
A tie with the shape sorter is his Retro Rocket. In the last week, he suddenly figured out how to kick his legs to make it go, so he'll take off down the sidewalk which is down hill and we'll go all the way around the block. He's taken quite a few spills on it because he zips down that hill, but so far no major injuries. Do kids need helmets for Retro Rockets???
His favorite food right now is huge bowls of cereal. We finally gave up on the tiny kid bowls and offer it in our normal dishes, about the same amount I'd pour for myself, with milk. He gets milk all over his pajamas each morning, but he eats the whole thing and often asks for more.
Saben's favorite toy he doesn't own is a bike. It amazes me that somehow he already loves bikes. Kyle has ridden around the block holding Saben quite a few times, and that was enough to start it all. We were in a toy store yesterday and he saw a little bike, two wheels, no training wheels or pedals, and he went nuts. I had to let him out of the stroller and he insisted on getting on it. No surprises what he's getting from us for Christmas this year.
He is also into watching Baby Einstein videos sitting in the exer-saucer he is way too big for, playing with keys in the car (still), hitting Roxxy and sitting in the car grocery carts.
Lately, Saben hates washing his hands, sharing, having kids visit us, getting put in his carseat without getting to play with the keys and carrott soup or any meat or veggies.
Friday, September 08, 2006
For those of you who were perplexed by the post below, here are some pics of my garden to enjoy instead.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
This is a picture of us and some good friends from Oregon who came up to visit us recently. We took a trip out to go hiking around Mount Baker. Our friends moved out here from Manhattan a couple years ago, so they weren't sure what to wear to go hiking, but they were clever enough to pick something attractive, yet cool & loose fitting for the hike. Unfortunately his shoes were a bit uncomfortable, but that was ok, he just took them off & hiked in his socks instead.
The trip was so beautiful, we enjoyed the cool crisp fall air, the brilliantly clear skies and the moutain glowing on the horizon. When we got home, I cooked an amazing dinner and then we smoked our Egyptian water pipe and played games until 2am. The next morning, Saben slept till 10am, so we all got to sleep in. It was one of the funnest weekends I've ever had in my entire life.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
The renters behind our house also enjoy their front yard. However, they prefer to get high & then hang out for hours, throwing machetes & throwing stars at a chunk of wood. Apparently their toilet doesn't work so well, instead they go on the wheel of the truck they have parked out front. Since they rarely bug us and are actually quite friendly, we prefer to politely overlook the people going in & out of their house all day for short five minute visits. But we do affectionately refer to them as "the drug dealers".
To the left of our house is a sweet nice lady with an old gray muzzled dog and two cats that like to use my garden as a litter box. She is easy to get along with and we chat occaisionally. Six months ago she drove through our yard and my beloved garden, before hurtling down the street & crashing into 7 cars in the busy intersection down the road. Apparently she passed out behind the wheel after taking some prescription meds.
You think Seattle has character? Try moving to Bellingham!
Friday, September 01, 2006
Long Lost Love
In book club, we are reading "From Beirut to Jerusalem", by Thomas Friedman. It was my pick, prompted by the recent turmoil in Lebanon and by another member of the book club who has close ties to the region.
I started re-reading it last night (for the third time) and it brought back so many memories, I was overwhelmed (momentarily) by .... homesickness? Friedman introduces the book by describing how he fell in love with Israel, and then Cairo. Parts of his story are so similar to my own "romance" with the region, and it is a strange feeling to be brought back to that moment of first love when I am so incredibly far from it right now. It's like a whole different person experienced those lovely moments.
My first morning, on my first trip to any middle eastern country, waking up in the old muslim quarter of Jerusalem to the calls of the minaret, walking the old worn stones that make up the passages of the old city, smelling the spices, animals, breads baking... women in hijbab, men praying in yarmulkes. I was blown away. I think it was only later, studying in Cairo that I really thought to myself that I could live there and be pretty darn happy. Maybe I never got over the honeymoon, but every day I walked out my apartment door (for three months), I was so happy and thankful to be there.
Those were the blissful days, before 911, before the Iraq war, before Israel erupted in violence again. Before having a husband and son to love, before the fear of losing them, or myself, had ever really entered into my world.
I dream someday of living amongst the spice smells, the animal sweat, and the old worn stones again. Speaking fluent arabic to my friends who wear hijab. Then I get distracted by my reality dream - that sometime in the next 30 minutes my son will quit his blasted screaming and take his darn nap.
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