With the presentation a week or so away, I am enjoying continuing my research for my project. What is currently on my mind is how 10 minutes to present really is not that much time. From my research so far, I already have a lot I could talk about. How do I best utilise that time? What aspects do I include? What do I omit?
I know that I definitely want to include some visual aspects in my presentation. I have already found some interesting images of international women’s organisations, including one of some of the participants of the All-Asian Women’s Conference in Lahore in 1931. However, the image is not of the best quality, and I am unable to see individual faces. Therefore, rather than trying to perhaps figure out any key figures, I am trying to think of how I could still use the image and draw information from it. It makes me think back to the Esperanto workshop, when we studied various images of Esperanto speakers and thought of what we could gain from them. Maybe I can find some information through, for example, looking at their clothes, the number of women, or where the photo was taken? Such images could therefore provide some insights about the conference and type of women involved more generally in these transnational networks in addition to information found in written sources.
In terms of visual sources, I also want to try and utilise some maps. In particular, marking where women in particular organisations came from, and where they convened. I think a visual aspect to this information could be particularly beneficial in demonstrating the Eurocentricity of organisations that supposedly represented ‘all women of the world’. I am , however, not too sure how to best do this, as it is not something I have done before. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to figuring it out, and also researching and finding some more visual material to use in my presentation. I think it is a great opportunity to discuss and show this added analysis on top of the written work I will include in my essay.