Comparative Women's History Workshop

Spring 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:

2/7 NOON on Friday February 7 in 710 Social Sciences
Phyllis Mack "From Radical Politics to Gender Politics:  Accommodation, Conflict, and the Formation of Feminist Consciousness in 18th Century British Quakerism."
Comment: TBA

2/21
Maggie Ragnow: "Women, Pilgrimage, and the Impact of Carolingian Religious Legislation"
Comment: Liping Wang

3/7
Nikki Berg “Ann Barnes Archer: Women and Plantation Management in Antebellum Mississippi.”
Comment: Ruth Karras

3/28
Yuka Tsuchiya "Gendered Re-education: The U.S. Educational Films in Post-WWII Occupied Japan"
Comment: M.J. Maynes

 4/11
CANCELLED

4/18
Michael Lower "Two Novel Images in Gregory IX's Crusade Bull of 1234"
Comment: Ann Waltner

5/2
J. B. Shank "Neither Natural Philosophy, Nor Science: Gender and Natural Knowledge in Louis XIV's France."
Comment: Kirsten Fischer

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