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
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
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
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