Spring Semester Schedule

 

 
 
 

Engendering Politics

 
Comparative Women’s History Workshop and Center for Advanced Feminist Studies
All events begin at 3:30, with refreshments at 3:15.All lectures will be in Humphrey Center 215 and all Engendering PoliticsWorkshops andCWHW workshops in Social Sciences Building (Soc Sci) 710, unless otherwise noted.Please check updated schedule in spring..

 

January 19  Engendering Politics Workshop:2:00-3:15

We will read Anna Clark’s draft of a short essay on “Engendering Politics: the Problem of Patriarchy”


 

Related lecture, sponsored by the Dept of English and CWHW.

Soc Sci 710, 3:30-5:00

Dror Wahrman, Indiana University, "On Queen Bees and Being Queens: Towards a Cultural History of the

Modern Self".
 

February 2  CWHW Workshop: 3:30-5:00

Ann Little, University of Dayton.“Insolent Squaws and Unreasonable Masters: Captivity and Family Life, 1675-1760."

February 9  CWHW Workshop: 3:30-5:00
MJ Maynes and Ann Waltner, "Teaching Family, Women's and Gender History as World History." 


 

February 16  CWHW Workshop:3:30-5:00

Ruth Mazo Karras, “Medieval Masculinity.”
 

March 2  Engendering Politics Workshop Subject TBA: 2:00-3:15

            Lecture:3:30-5:00

Laura Edwards, Duke University, “The Construction of Patriarchy and Authority in the Antebellum South:What's Next after Gender, Race, and Class in U.S. Women's History?”:
 
 

    March 9        CWHW Get-together        3:30-approximately 4:30        710 Social Sciences
                        Please join the CWHW for snacks and conversation at a get-together for visiting prospective graduate students who are interested in women's/gender history.

March 16   CWHW Workshop: 3:30-5:00

Julia Roos, “The Weimar Left and the Debate about Prostitution.”


 

March 23  Lecture: 3:30-5:00 

Susan Amussen (Union Pacific Visiting Professor), “Gender, Race, and Slavery in the 17th century Caribbean.”


 

April 6  Engendering Politics WorkshopFord Room, 1:30-2:30

Related Lecture: 3:30-5:00, Carlson 1-149, cosponsored with the Humanities Institute.

Lynn Hunt, UCLA, “Human rights and the French Revolution.”


 

April 13  CWHW Workshop: 3:30-5:00
Margo Canaday, “Sexuality and Citizenship in the Postwar US”


 

April 20  Lecture: 3:30-5:00

Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan, “The Body and Politics in Weimar Germany”


 

May 4  Engendering Politics Workshop TBA: 2:00-3:15

 

CANCELLED  CWHW Workshop:3:30-5:00

Jean O’Brien-Kehoe, “Race, Class and Gender in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Old Town Folks.”