Forthcoming seminar
Past seminar programs
Research seminars, now held yearly, are open to all members and to the general public.
Call for papers
Female Convict Research Centre Seminar: Sunday 5 May 2024
Topic: Freedom: Time served, moving on
This seminar will focus on the pathways to freedom for convict women and will explore the lives they led once emancipated.
Possible topics may include:
- Pathways to freedom.
- Emancipation – prosperity or poverty? How the emancipated women lived out the rest of their lives. Individual stories.
- Exploring subsets – return to their home country, moving to another colony or country; marriage; non-marriage; business women; relying on the State to survive.
If you would like to present a 20-minute paper at the seminar, please forward an abstract for consideration to
Spring 2010: Populating the Ross Female Factory
Autumn 2010: Female Factories: Who worked there and why?
Referencing suggestion for seminar papers:
[Author], '[Title of paper'], unpublished paper presented at FCRC Seminar, [seminar date].
or if published:
[Author], ['Title of paper'], paper presented at FCRC Seminar, [seminar date], http://femaleconvicts.org.au/index.php/fcrc-seminars/research-seminars.
