The Comparative Women's History
Workshop
The Value of Comparison
Conferences
One way to extend the benefits of comparison is to organize thematic conferences
where scholars from outside the university are invited to join workshop participants
in sharing work in progress while thinking about that work comparatively. The
workshop has sponsored two such conferences. In May 1992 the women's history
faculty inaugurated the history department's program in comparative women's history
with a conference entitled "Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Comparative Historical
Perspective." The conference papers were later collected in the book Gender,
Kinship, Power: A Comparative Interdisciplinary History. More recently the
Workshop culminated the 1998-99 school year with a mini-conference focusing on
the year's theme of Women and Travel. The conference, entitled Gender
and the Technologies and Narratives of Travel, featured a demonstration of
the the University's Women's Travel
Writing Digitization Project as well as papers by both visiting and local
scholars.
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