Comparative Women's History Workshop

Fall 2003

Paper, time, and place:

Papers are pre-circulated (unless otherwise noted) and can be obtained a week in advance in the History Department's photocopy room (Social Sciences Tower 636). The author leads off with a brief summary and presentation of approximately 15 minutes. A commentator begins the discussion with a 5-minute comment from a comparative perspective. The workshop normally convenes in the Ford Room (710 Social Science Tower) on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 P.M. Light refreshments are served.

Schedule:

September 26th
Anna Clark, “Wild Workhouse Girls in Nineteenth Century Ireland”
Commentator: MJ Maynes

October 3rd Noon (NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME)
Elif Safak, “The Emancipation of Women in the History of a Non-Western Modernization and the Silences of "Other" Sisters: The Case of Turkish Secularism.”
Commentator: Ann Waltner

October 10th
Flo Waldron, “Nuns and Nation: Were Les Petites Franciscaines de Marie Transnational?”
Commentator: Jacqui Devries, Augsburg College

October 24th
Gail Bederman, “A New Look at Frances Wright and Nashoba: Race, Slavery, and One Woman's Political Activism, 1824-1827.”
Commentator: Anna Clarke
STRIKE LOCATION - room 301 of the Augsburg College library (aka Lindell Hall)

October 31st
Monica Najar, “‘Disorder Can't Be Countenanced:’ Ordering the Evangelical Household in the Early National South”
Commentator: Kirsten Fischer
STRIKE LOCATION - room 301 of the Augsburg College library (aka Lindell Hall)

November 7th
Susan Rensing, “The Feminist Eugenics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Women ‘waking up’ and Moving the Mountain”
Commentator: Karen Sue Taussig, Department of Anthropology

November 21
MJ Maynes, “Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in Modern European History – Introduction” by M.J. Maynes, Birgitte Søland (Ohio State University), and Christina Benninghaus (University of Bielefeld).
Commentator: Tracey Deutsch

December 5 rescheduled to December 12
Laura Davis, “The Making of a Public Health Campaign in Early Twentieth Century St. Paul: Civic Photography and Caroline Bartlett Crane”
Commentator: Tom Wolfe

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