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

«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.

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