Comparative Women's History Workshop

Spring 2004

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 2:30-4:00 P.M. Light refreshments are served.

Schedule:

February 13 3:00 (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)
G Arunima, "Novel Images: Cultural History and the Question of Modernity in Colonial South India, Kerala, 1870-1940"

February 20
Mary Louise Nagata, “Urban Marriage Patterns in Early Modern Kyoto, 1843-1868”
Commentator: Elaine May

March 5
Anne Huebel, “Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Idea” or A Roundtable on Publishing (see the call for papers that this proposal responds to here)
Commentator: Sarah Chambers

March 12
Jack Norton, “Women’s Labor in Early Modern Spain,”
Commentator: Ann Waltner

March 26 rescheduled to April 16
Jennifer Gunn "Why She Becomes Insane So Often:" Rural Women and Mental Health in the Upper Midwest, 1900-1940”
Commentator: TBA

April 9
Regina Kunzel, " 'Be a Gay We Can be Proud of': Gay Politics and Prison Sexual Culture, 1970-85"
Co-sponsored with Global Sexualities Group
Location TBA

April 16
Jennifer Gunn "Why She Becomes Insane So Often:" Rural Women and Mental Health in the Upper Midwest, 1900-1940”
Commentator: TBA

April 23
Julia Roos, Introduction to Weimar's Crisis Through the Lens of Gender: The Case of Prostitution
Commentator: Kevin Murphy

April 30 1:30-3:00, Arthur Upson Room (102 Walter Library)
(NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION)

Gianna Pomata, "Malpighi and the Holy Body: Secular Medicine and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Bologna"
Co-sponsored with Theorizing Early Modern Studies and the Center for Early Modern History
The paper is available in the copy room or by emailing Michael Gaudio at gaudio<AT>umn.edu

May 14th
Richa Nagar and Koni Benson, "Conceptualizing Collaboration: Envisioning Radical Participatory Methodologies for Women’s Grassroots Initiatives in Zimbabwe and India"
Commentator: MJ Maynes

 

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