# Conference Celebrating the Work of Nancy F. Cott #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 20 - October 21, 2017** 03:00PM - 06:00PM EDT Please join us to celebrate the work of our dear teacher, friend and colleague Nancy F. Cott, at Harvard University, Friday, Oct. 20, 4pm through Saturday, Oct. 21, 6pm **FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017** 3-4pm Check-in and Refreshments *Sever Hall Rm. 113* 4-5:30pm **THE IMPACT OF NANCY COTT’S SCHOLARSHIP ON THE ACADEMY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE** Chair: Jill Lepore, Harvard University Reframing the History of Women in the Nineteenth Century Lori Ginzberg (Pennsylvania State University) Redefining the Feminisms of the Twentieth-Century Bethany Moreton (Dartmouth College) Remaking Marriage in the Twenty-first Century: The Historian Goes to Court George Chauncey (Columbia University) 6pm **RECEPTION** *Carol K. Pforzheimer Reading Room of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute* - **[MAP](https://goo.gl/maps/UDvNxNQLQ212)** Hosted by Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director; and Marilyn Dunn, Executive Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America **SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2017** 9:30am Check-in *Barker Center, Thompson Room* - **[MAP](https://goo.gl/maps/siPbfKpVtHC2)** 10-11:45am **19th CENTURY WOMEN’S/GENDER HISTORY** Chair: Beryl Satter, Rutgers University Female Benevolence at Home and Abroad Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University Converging Histories of Women and Gender Tera Hunter, Princeton University Designing, Masking and Performing Gender in the Slave Female’s Costume Brenda Stevenson, UCLA Gender and the Union War Elizabeth Varon, University of Virginia 11:45 – 1:15 **Lunch** (Provided) *Barker Center* 1:15-3pm **TWENTIETH-CENTURY FEMINISMS** Chair: Molly Ladd-Taylor, York University A Woman Making History Katherine Marino, Ohio State University Being Beauvoir at 60 in 1968 Judith Coffin, University of Texas at Austin The Grounding of Transnational Feminism Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University (Non)Marriage and (In)Equality Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Unraveling the Bonds of Womanhood: Late Twentieth-Century Feminisms Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University 3:15-5pm **QUEER HISTORIES** Chair: Regina Kunzel, Princeton University No Small Courage: Mentoring and Methods in Queer and Trans History Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto Inventing Histories of Sexuality & Queering the Eighteenth Century Clare Lyons, University of Maryland Rethinking Domesticity: Gender, Sexuality, and the Queer Historiography of Home Stephen Vider, Bryn Mawr College Gay History from Inside the Police Station Anna Lvovsky, Harvard Law School Queer History and the Legacy of Academic Mentoring Rebecca Davis, University of Delaware 5:15-5:45 **CLOSING REMARKS** Chair: Ann Braude, Harvard University John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University *Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, with support from the Office of the President; the Mahindra Humanities Center; the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; the FAS Division of Social Science; American Studies; Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality; the History Department, and the Women’s Studies in Religion Program.* For more information: [https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/celebration-work-nancy-cott-0?delta=0](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/celebration-work-nancy-cott-0?delta=0&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNGNj0WDe1aZORe-HSZEWhpMTqHvlA) To RSVP, please write to: [nancyfest2017@gmail.com](mailto:///nancyfest2017@gmail.com) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/node/1161061/event-feed.ics) Copy link link