Infinite Women

Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman and Kate Ferrier, PhD candidates in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, tell us about Scottish author Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. Kate is also a distant relative of Susan’s.
Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Cleo-OCallaghan-Yeoman-and-Kate-Ferrier-on-Susan-Edmonstone-Ferrier-transcript.pdf

Dr Vanessa R. Corcoran, a medieval historian and an advising dean at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss depictions of the Virgin Mary and how they reflect medieval society.
Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Vanessa-R.-Corcoran-on-the-Virgin-Mary-in-medieval-art-transcript.pdf

Dr Zoë Burgess, Senior Research Fellow at the University of West London’s London School of Film, Media and Design and Film Curator at Wessex Film & Sound Archive. She tells us about her research into gender and class in the WFSA’s Amateur Film Collection, focusing on the early years of film from 1895 to 1950.
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Zoe-Burgess-on-mid-century-amateur-filmmakers-transcript.pdf

Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to discuss Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition "Olive Cotton and Her Contemporaries" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/making-it-modern-olive-cotton-and-her-contemporaries/) will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria through 22 February, then at Cowra Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales from 14 March to 10 May. Cotton’s work is also currently on display at the NGA as part of the "Women Photographers 1853–2018" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/women-photographers/) collection display that will be up until 1 March 2026.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Shaune-Lakin-on-Olive-Cotton-transcript.pdf

Dr Lisa Baer-Tsarfati joins us to discuss linguistic bias in artificial intelligence.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lisa-Baer-Tsarfati-on-linguistic-gender-bias-in-AI-transcript.pdf