The next session on the Mediterranean Institute Seminar series is titled 'Women's enfranchisement and the nation-building project in Malta'. The Seminar will be delivered by Professor Carmen Sammut, Pro-Rector and Associate Professor within the Department of International Relations at the University of Malta.
The session will be held on Thursday 21 March at 17:30 at the Mediterranean Institute, Ħursun Farmhouse, University of Malta Msida Campus.
In this seminar, suffragism will be conceptualised within the boundaries of political and social history where women’s enfranchisement was coeval with the other key political questions of the 20th century.
Although women’s enfranchisement through the Mac Michael Constitution of 1947, coincided with the erosion of British global hegemony and Empire, it will be argued that women’s liberation then was still construed within frameworks and exchanges between the metropole and the colonies.
The session will be held on Thursday 21 March at 17:30 at the Mediterranean Institute, Ħursun Farmhouse, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Universal suffrage has opened the way for all women and many disenfranchised men, to exercise their right to vote and participate in elections for the first time in Malta’s history. The trajectory of women’s emancipation is very often omitted from the prevailing narratives that reinforce our sense of nationhood.
In this seminar, suffragism will be conceptualised within the boundaries of political and social history where women’s enfranchisement was coeval with the other key political questions of the 20th century.
Although women’s enfranchisement through the Mac Michael Constitution of 1947, coincided with the erosion of British global hegemony and Empire, it will be argued that women’s liberation then was still construed within frameworks and exchanges between the metropole and the colonies.
The Seminar is free and open to the public, and students are particularly encouraged to attend.
Attendees are cordially invited to a drinks reception after the Seminar session.
For further information or to reserve a place contact the MI Seminar Convenor Dr Norbert Bugeja by email.
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Professor Carmen Sammut is Pro-Rector for Student & Staff Affairs and Outreach at the University of Malta, where she lectures on Gender in International Relations and Critical Journalism. She is also currently chairing the Technical Committee responsible for the Consultation Document on the reform that is aimed to bring about a gender-balanced Parliament. Sammut holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She obtained her Masters (cum laude), a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), and a B.A. degree from the University of Malta. She is a long-experienced broadcaster and regularly appears as an analyst discussing current events. Relevant publications include (with Nadia Abdilla) 'Il-Ġurnaliżmu u l-Ġlieda għall-Vot tal-Mara Maltija fil-Kuntest Imperjali: Ir-rwol ta’ Mabel Strickland' in Mabel Strickland: Storja u Miti, edited by Sergio Grech (Nov 2018); The Road to Women’s Suffrage and Beyond: Women’s Enfranchisement and the Nation-Building Project in Malta (2017) and 'Gender and political engagement: Assessing the role of the media in the Maltese Islands.' in Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean., edited by Fatima Sadiqi (Routledge, 2013).