Friday May 22, 1:30-4:30  Room s-30 Wilson Library
WORKSHOP
The Friday afternoon workshop  will feature presentations and demonstrations of electronic text projects. The focus will be on the Women's Travel Writing Digitization Project (WTW) at Wilson Library and its uses in teaching and research. There will an introduction to the WTW website and a hands-on session followed by a discussion of the WTW's interpretive encoding and comments by special guest, Julia Flanders (Editor of Women Writers' Project at Brown University and author of The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender & the Electronic Text).

Panelists:

• Julia Flanders; Amy Foster (Program in History of Science and Technology)
• Amy Kaminsky (Department of Women's Studies)
• Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Program in History of Science and Technology, Director of Center for Advanced Feminist Studies)
• Miranda Remnek (Coordinator, University of Minnesota Libraries' Electronic Text Research Center and Director, Women's Travel Writing Digitization Project)
• Karen Roggenkamp (Department of English)
• Donald Ross (Department of English)

Panelists:

• Antoinette Burton (Johns Hopkins University, Department of History), "'The Purdahnashin in Her Setting': Space, Modernity, and the Representation of Femininities in Cornelia Sorabji's Memoirs"

• Catherine Choy (American Studies), "Filipino Women Travelers/scholars in Early-twentieth Century United States"
• Adriana Mendez (University of Iowa,  Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature), "Engendering the Nation: European Women's Travels to Nineteenth-Century Spanish America"
• Beth Muellner (Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch), "Comments on Malwida von Meysenbug's Reise nach Ostende"
• Barbara Welke (Department of History), "Rights of Passage: Gendered-Rights Consciousness and the Quest for Freedom, San Francisco, California, 1885-1870"

Saturday May 22,12:00 - 1:30  Commons Room (205 Humphrey Center)
Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees.

Saturday May 22, 1:30-4:00   Wilkins Room (215 Humphrey Center)
SESSION II; WOMEN TRAVELERS: GENDER RELATIONS

Panelists:

• Patricia Cline Cohen (University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History),  "Negotiating Gender in Public: Stages and Steamboats in Antebellum America"
• Paisley Harris  (Department of History), "Life on the Road: Traveling Shows and the Politics of Respectability"
• Lisa Norling (Department of History), "Yankee Captain's Wives in the Nineteenth-century Pacific and the Destabilizing of Female Identity"
• Liping Wang (Department of History), "Peasants' Pilgrimages to the City: Women, Travel and the Construction of Rural Identity in Twentieth-century China"

Chair and Comment by M.J. Maynes (Department of History) and Ann Waltner (Department of History)

REGISTRATION: To register contact Barbara Welke, at the Department of History, 614 Social Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
55455 or by voicemail or e-mail (612-624-6531 or welke004@tc.umn.edu) by May 14. Please include your name, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail.
There is no charge for registration, but we do need participants to register in advance so we can plan for lunch and the distribution of conference papers. Saturday lunch will be provided for all pre-registered participants. Conference papers will be circulated in advance to all pre-registrants. Papers will be available in the Department of History beginning on May 10. Off-campus registrants can request that the papers be mailed to them.