Schedule

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

7:30 p.m. in Butler Boardroom (to access Butler Boardroom, please take the Butler Pavilion elevator to the 6th floor—see Directions/Maps)

Welcome

Pamela S. Nadell, Clendenen Professor of History, AU
Kay Mussell, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, AU
Robert Griffith, Chair, Department of History, AU

Keynote: Beyond the Gender Turn

Kathy Peiss, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Please join us for a dessert reception following the keynote address.

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast in Mary Graydon Center 203 (see Directions/Maps)

Roundtable: Tracing Three Fields in Women’s History

9:00–10:30 a.m. in Mary Graydon Center 200
Eileen Findlay, Associate Professor of History, AU
Kate Haulman, Assistant Professor of History, AU
Helen Langa, Associate Professor of Art History, AU
Moderator: Katharine Norris, Assistant Professor of History, AU

 

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break in Mary Graydon Center 203

 

A Sense of Place

10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. in Mary Graydon Center 200 (see Directions/Maps)

No Place Like Home: Nineteenth-Century New England Farm Women’s Diaries
Christina Gessler, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Maryland

Standing Room Only: Government Girls’ Place in WWII Washington
Cindy Gueli, Adjunct Professor of History, AU

Re-Defining Self in Suburbia: Women and Postwar Jewish Identity
Aleisa Fishman, Special Assistant to the Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Chair: Allan Lichtman, Professor of History, AU

Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program

 

12:30 p.m. Lunch in Battelle-Tompkins Atrium (see Directions/Maps)


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Interrogating Bodies

2:00–3:15 p.m. in Mary Graydon 200 (see Directions/Maps)

Reducing Women: Politics and Power in Early Diet Discourses
Katharina Vester, Scholar in Residence, American Studies, AU

From Transvestism to Transgenderism:
Body and Gender in the Life of Virginia Prince
Robert Hill, Assistant Professor of American Studies, AU

Chair: April Shelford, Associate Professor of History, AU

 

3:15 p.m. Coffee Break in Mary Graydon Center 203

 

History and Film

3:30 p.m. in Mary Graydon Center 200 (see Directions/Maps)

Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg: Narrating Women’s History through Documentary Film
Aviva Kempner, Independent Filmmaker

Chair: Kathy Franz, Director of Public History and Assistant Professor of History, AU

Cosponsored by the AU Center for Social Media, School of Communication, & Jewish Studies Program

 

Please join us for a reception in the Battelle-Tompkins Atrium following the closing session (see Directions/Maps).

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