[Daviscenter-list] Gender in International History Conference, Friday-Saturday March 14-15

*The Eighth Annual Harvard International History Graduate Student Conference on Gender in International History will convene this Friday and Saturday, March 14-15, 2008. The Conference will be at the Center for European Studies on 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way. For more information see website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/schedule.htm <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Econih/schedule.htm>* * * *«**FRIDAY* *Registration and Luncheon* (11-1:30) Dudley House, Fireside Room *Panel I: Norms and Perceptions *(2-3:30) Chair: Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Norman Domeier (European University Institute) /The Thin Line: Sexology and Morality in the Eulenburg Scandal, 1906-1909/ Commentator, Lorenzo Benadusi (Brown University) Gordon Andrews (Western Michigan University) /'Lewd and Debauched Women': Race, Gender and the Transformation of American Immigration Policy/ Commentator, Min Hyoung Song (Boston College) Christine Ruth Watterson (Harvard University) /Disagreeable Necessities: the Role of Newspaper Advertisements in Regulating the Household in Eighteenth Century America and Ireland/ Commentator, Laura Lee Downs (EHESS) *Cocktails and Dinner** *(5:30-8) Harvard Faculty Club (by invitation only) with remarks by Nancy Cott (Harvard University) *«**SATURDAY* *Breakfast* (8-9) *Panel II: Actors and Institutions *(9-10:30)* * Chair: Akira Iriye (Harvard University) Jessica Pliley (Ohio State University) /Suppression of the Traffic: White Slavery and the League of Nations, 1919-1939/ Commentator, Susan Pedersen (Columbia University) Steffen Rimner (Yale University/University of Konstanz) /'To Make the World Safe against Opium': Four Women between America, the League of Nations and International Opium Prohibition, 1919-1930/ Commentator, Erez Manela (Harvard University) Karen Teoh (Harvard University) /Gender, Education and the Colonial State: British Intervention in Malayan Chinese Girls' Schools, 1920s-1950s/ Commentator, Ann Laura Stoler (The New School) *Coffee Break* (10:30-11) *Panel III*:* Solidarity and Action *(11-12:30) Chair: Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University) Michael McGuire (Boston University) /Ladies /and/ Gentlemen? Gender and American Humanitarian Relief Efforts in France during the First World War, 1914-1919 / Commentator, Judith Surkis (Harvard University) Lindsey Churchill (Florida State University) /Transnational Alliances: Radical US Feminist Solidarity and Contention with Latin America, 1970-1989 / Commentator, Brad Epps (Harvard University) Xinxian Zheng (Peking University) /Between Red Cross and Patriotic Blood: Florence Nightingaleism in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945/ Commentator, Caroline Reeves (Emmanuel College) *Luncheon *(12:30-2) *Panel IV: Identities and Nations *(2:30-4) Chair: Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney) Shehnaz Hozaima (Trinity Western University) /Women in the Making: Gender and Nation-Building in the Israeli-Palestine Conflict/ Commentator, Susan Kahn (Harvard University) Elisabetta Bini, (New York University) /Cold War Masculinities: Gas Station Attendants Between Italy, the United States and the Third World, 1945-1965 / Commentator, Robert Dean (Eastern Washington University) Megan Threlkeld (University of Iowa) /'Make This Pan American Thing Go?' Interwar Debates about US Women's Transnational Activism in the Western Hemisphere/ Commentator, Diana Williams (Wellesley College) *Plenary Session: A Gendered World? Mapping the Intersections of Gender and International History *(4-5:30) Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University) Robert Dean (Eastern Washington University) Laura Lee Downs (l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney) Ann Laura Stoler (The New School) *Reception*, Dudley House, Graduate Student Lounge (6-7) / / /All sessions will take place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, unless otherwise indicated./ -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu