York Georgian Society is delighted to host two talks given by our 2024 Nuttgens Award Winners, Constance Halstead and Charlotte Goodge.
This event will start with a drinks reception in the garden of York Medical Society (weather permitting). Then in the Lecture Room, Professor Mary Fairclough (University of York) will give an introduction, followed by our award winners who will deliver two short talks.
It will be a wonderful opportunity to network with other members of the Society and hear exciting new research in eighteenth-century studies. Current students at the University of York also have the chance to learn more about the Nuttgens Award, and how York Georgian Society supports early-career research.
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Title: Colonial Strategies for Disempowerment and the “Deformed” Mammae of Khoekhoe Mothers
Dr Charlotte Goodge submitted and successfully defended her AHRC-funded PhD thesis in December 2024. Her interdisciplinary doctoral research broadly examines the cultural constructedness of female fatness in the period, demonstrating that both the real-life and the fictional fat female figure was variously used as a vehicle through which ideologies of femininity, class hierarchy and civilisation were reinforced. Charlotte has held fellowships at the Huntington Library (2023) and Chawton House (2021) and was recently awarded the ASECS Race & Empire Caucus's Graduate Student Essay Prize (2024). Her work has been published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2023), Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) and in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2025).
This talk explores the way in which eighteenth-century European commentators and travel writers depicted Khoekhoe mothers and their breastfeeding p
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