*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>*
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*«**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)
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/All sessions will take place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, unless otherwise indicated./
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