Arianne Chernock's guest appearances

Arianne Chernock

Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

History & Policy

Jo Boaler

Ben Taylor

Sarah Richardson

Alberto Alesina

Jennifer Lawless

Tim Lewens

Richard Wilson

GEORGE MONBIOT

Robert Taylor

Robert Jensen

Dominic Grieve

Frank Trentmann

Valerie Hudson

Mary Brinton

Iris Bohnet

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Historians have long suspected that Queen Victoria’s gender played a role in the rise of constitutional (e.g. ceremonial) monarchy in 19th-century Britain. But what was the nature of this role? In this seminar, Arianne Chernock takes on this question through an archival-based approach by exploring Victoria’s centrality to the early women’s rights movement in Britain – especially in inspiring women to demand the right to vote. Chernock argues that recognizing Victoria’s role in the women’s rights movement allows us to see the shift towards a more restricted Crown as an attempt to contain radical thinking about women, agency, and power to create a more democratic and transparent British state. Speaker: Arianne Chernock, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston University

Historians have long suspected that Queen Victoria’s gender played a role in the rise of constitutional (e.g. ceremonial) monarchy in 19th-century Britain. But what was the nature of this role? In this seminar, Arianne Chernock takes on this question through an archival-based approach by exploring Victoria’s centrality to the early women’s rights movement in Britain – especially in inspiring women to demand the right to vote. Chernock argues that recognizing Victoria’s role in the women’s rights movement allows us to see the shift towards a more restricted Crown as an attempt to contain radical thinking about women, agency, and power to create a more democratic and transparent British state. Speaker: Arianne Chernock, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston University

The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women in Victorian Britain with Arianne Chernock

Theme 1: How ‘norms’ change. The concept of progressive incrementalism will be critically examined, through case studies of how norms have changed in relation to slavery, the treatment of animals, and gender norms.

Theme 1: How ‘norms’ change. The concept of progressive incrementalism will be critically examined, through case studies of how norms have changed in relation to slavery, the treatment of animals, and gender norms.

Arianne Chernock - Why change happens: What we can learn from the past