The Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality is happy to announce its spring 2009 schedule. All are welcome, papers available by request.
Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Spring 2009 Workshop Schedule
Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Schedule for Spring Semester 2009
All meetings of WCHWGS will be in the History Department’s new History Conference Center (Heller Hall 1210) unless otherwise indicated, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. Also unless indicated otherwise, papers will be available the Monday before the session in the History Department Mail Room, 11th floor Heller Hall. Most papers can be made available on request by email.
February 20 — Tovah Leigh Bender, “The Mediterranean Marriage Pattern Revisited.��?
March 6 — Todd Cleveland, “‘I Worked Because the Company Needed Me:’ African Women’s Labor on the Diamond Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-75.��?
March 27 — Sarah Chambers, “Families in War and Peace: Chile from Colony to Nation, 1790-1860.��?
April 10 — Kate Jirik, “Women Engaged in the ‘Work’ of American Institutions for the ‘Feeble-Minded,’ 1876-1904.��?
April 17 — Lizabeth Zanoni, “In the Guise of Immigrants: Anna Herkner, Gender, and the Expansion of US Immigration Policy.��?
May 1 — Roundtable: From “Comparative Women’s History��? to “Women, Gender and Sexuality:��? Considering Intellectual and Political Communities.
Appetizers and refreshments will be served
For more information, please contact:
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick pohla001@umn.edu
or
Jessica Namakkal nama0005@umn.edu
See attached flyer for details.
