2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities

Digital Humanities Spotlight

1 DH - Introduction and Welcome to Digital Humanities Spotlight

Digital Humanities Spotlight

2 DH - E-Reading Women's History: Digital Histories of Gender and the Book

Digital Humanities Spotlight

3 DH - We Launched History Podcasts -- and You Can Too!

Digital Humanities Spotlight

4 DH - The Center for the New Historia “Writing and Righting History” Workshop

Digital Humanities Spotlight

5 DH - Crusade for the Vote: The National Women's History Museum's Suffrage Resources Center in the 21st-Century Classroom

Digital Humanities Spotlight

6 DH - Gendering Labor in Digital Humanities

Special Events

Women in Contrast

Special Events

Converging Identities: Gender & Identity

Digital Humanities Spotlight

7 DH - Project Demos

Digital Humanities Spotlight

8 DH - Reimagining Feminist Public Scholarship: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Spotlight

9 DH - Women and Social Movements Websites: "The Writings of Black Women Suffragists" & "Women in Modern Empires"

Digital Humanities Spotlight

10 DH - Digital Humanities Spotlight Lunch

Special Events

11 - Tour of Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Heights Neighborhood

Traditional Panel

12 - A Right to Welfare: Gender, Citizenship, and Welfare Policy in the Twentieth Century United States

Traditional Panel

13 P - Army Wives, Regimental Domesticity and Garrison Culture: difficult conversations across the British Empire, c.1820s-1920s

Roundtable Discussions

14 RT - At the Crossroads of Sound and Text in Zora Neale Hurston's Written and Performed Work

Traditional Panel

15 P - Black Women and Global Capitalism in the Post War Era

Roundtable Discussions

16 RT - Difficult Conversations in Lesbian History: A Roundtable Discussion

Traditional Panel

17 P - Exploring issues of documenting and preserving survivors' testimonies of wartime sexual violence: Select cases in Asia and Europe during World War II

Traditional Panel

18 P - Gender, Wealth, and Women's Economic Strategies in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Traditional Panel

19 P - Gendered Opportunities: Social Workers as Scientists

Traditional Panel

20 P - Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy

Traditional Panel

21 P - Pocketbook Power: Women's Consumption and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century

Traditional Panel

22 P - Politics of Home: Women, Activism, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Traditional Panel

23 P - Racial Politics of Midwifery and the Women's Health Movement in Modern America

Lightning Session

24 LT - Reclaiming the Body I: Transgressing the Sex/Gender Binary

Lightning Session

25 LT - Rethinking Transnational Feminism: Empire, Sovereignty, and Race

Lightning Session

26 LT - The Global History of Black Girl Citizens: Age, Bodies, Generations

Traditional Panel

27 P - The Right to Birth Well: The Changing Landscape of Feminist Health Advocacy and Pregnancy in the Twentieth Century

Lightning Session

28 LT - Who Said It Was Simple?: Dynamics of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class in Community Engagement of Space in and out of Cities

Traditional Panel

32 W - The 'Mothers' of Children Born of War: Sexuality, Race and Representation Within Allied Homefronts in World War Two.

Workshop

29 W - Gender, Emotion and Engaging with the Past: A Difficult Conversation

Workshop

30 W - Intimate Negotiations: New Histories of Marriage, 1850s-1970s

Workshop

31 W - Marriage and Slavery: Exploring the Complexities of Unfreedom and Autonomy

Workshop

33 W - The History of Sexuality Meets Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Encounter

Special Events

Pura Cruz: An Artist's Life

Special Events

Women's Activism NYC

Special Events

SAY HER NAME: Women Martyrs & Movement Builders

Conversations between historians and activists

34 C - Access to Justice: Past and Present

Traditional Panel

35 P - All in the Family?: Gendering Freedom in Colonial Latin America I

Traditional Panel

36 P - Ancient World: Gender and Slavery

Traditional Panel

37 P - Bloomers, Domestic Violence, and Home Economics: Print Sources and the Politics of Gender

Lightning Session

38 LT - Bodies under Capitalism

Traditional Panel

39 P - Critical Reflections on Transnational Activism for Survivors of the Japanese Military's War-time System of Sexual Slavery

Traditional Panel

40 P - Development and technology

Roundtable Discussions

41 RT - Gay Rights, Gender, and the Gentrifying City

Lightning Session

42 LT - Gender and Sexuality in Sport Performance and Representation

Traditional Panel

43 P - Gender, Race, and the Power of Visual Culture

Traditional Panel

44 P - Highlighting Black Women's Reform Efforts via Public History Collaborations

Roundtable Discussions

45 RT - Improving the World at Home and Abroad: Fighting Words and Oblique Conversations about Rape, Race & Religion in the U.S.

Conversations between historians and activists

46 C - Justice, Justice We Shall Pursue: Jewish Feminist Activist Responses to Israel/Palestine Since the 1970s

Traditional Panel

47 P - Magic, Sex and Gender: Unconventional Women and Religion in the Medieval West

Traditional Panel

48 P - Searching for Freedom: Migrations, Borders & New Alliances

Traditional Panel

49 P - Sexual Desire in Islam, Judaisim, and Catholicism

Traditional Panel

50 P - Shaping Young Women: Sexual Education, Literature, and Clubs

Traditional Panel

51 P - The Politics of Schooling

Traditional Panel

52 P - Women, Gender and the Remaking of Religious Practice and Theology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Britain.

Traditional Panel

53 P - Women, Refugees, and Total War: Gender and “Belonging,” 1917–1945

Special Events

54 - Reception to Welcome International Participants

Special Events

55 - Women and Social Movements: Champagne and Strawberries Reception

Plenary Sessions

56 - Beyond Ecofeminism: Women and Their Environments

Plenary Sessions

57 - “Herstory Inside”: The Power of Women's Voices Behind Bars

Lightning Session

58 LT - Beyond Exceptionalism: Women, Power, Knowledge and the Premodern State

Traditional Panel

59 P - Black Women and their Property: comparing 18th and 19th-Century Brazil and Africa

Lightning Session

60 LT - Constructing Desire: Age, Beauty, and Ethnicity in Popular Culture

Roundtable Discussions

61 RT - Critical Heterosexualities: Thinking about Heterosexuality as a Category of Historical Analysis

Lightning Session

62 LT - Difficult Conversations about Reproductive Rights

Roundtable Discussions

63 RT - Gendering the First World War Centenary: Searching the Archives

Traditional Panel

64 P - Gendering Urban and Rural Spaces in Twentieth-Century Africa and Latin America

Traditional Panel

65 P - Intersections of Gender, Science and Nature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Lightning Session

66 LT - Irish Women, Religion, Respectability, Migration And The City, 1850-1980.

Traditional Panel

67 P - Leagues of Their Own: Intergovernmental Organizing and Transnational Feminisms in the League of Nations and Beyond

Traditional Panel

68 P - Plurality and "Ambiguity" in Female Religious' Observance in the Nineth to Eleventh Century West

Roundtable Discussions

69 RT - Powerful Women's History Teaching Partnerships: Three Historic Sites & an Archive

Lightning Session

70 LT - Reclaiming the Body II: Gender, Embodiment, and Knowledge

Lightning Session

71 LT - Repast and Present: Food History Inside and Outside the Academy

Roundtable Discussions

72 RT - The Nineteenth Amendment: Setting the Agenda for the 2020 Centennial

Film

73 F - The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen a documentary film

Conversations between historians and activists

74 C - The Triangle Factory Fire in American Memory

Traditional Panel

75 P - Transgressing the Western Norm: Infanticide, Childlessness and the Matronym, 1600-1900

Traditional Panel

76 P - Women Perpetrators: Violence, Gender and Political Transition, 1914-1945

Traditional Panel

77 P - Working the Homefront: Women in WWII

Special Events

SAY HER NAME: Women Martyrs & Movement Builders

Special Events

Pura Cruz: An Artist's Life

Special Events

Women's Activism NYC

Traditional Panel

78 P - "Women of Color and the State: Suffrage, Electoral Politics, and Gender Equity"

Traditional Panel

79 P - African American Migrations, Images of Movement: Re-imagining the Archive of Black Exodus and Arrival

Traditional Panel

80 P - African Women's Experiences of Conflict, Military Engagement, and Peace-Making

Traditional Panel

81 P - Alternative Agricultures: Women Farmers and Farm Workers in the Twentieth Century U.S.

Traditional Panel

82 P - Caribbean Movement(s): Histories of Labor, Gender and Migration

Traditional Panel

83 P - Comfort Women: Two Systems of Sexual Slavery and Historical Revisionism

Traditional Panel

84 P - Commodities, Consumption and Rights in the Americas

Traditional Panel

85 P - Disability in the Home: Disability, Gender, Families, and the U.S. State

Traditional Panel

86 P - Embodying Science: Female Representations of Knowledge in European Culture, 12th-18th Centuries

Traditional Panel

87 P - Empowering/Disempowering Women in World War I

Roundtable Discussions

88 RT - Exhibiting Women, Women on Display: Discourses and Representations of Women at Universal, International and Colonial Exhibitions

Conversations between historians and activists

89 C - Feminist Mobilizing for global commitments to the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls

Traditional Panel

90 P - Gender and War in Early America

Traditional Panel

91 P - Global Feminized Labor in the Medical Fields: Nurses, Care Workers, and Physicians in Canada and the U.S

Traditional Panel

92 P - How Many Feminists Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Women, Activism, and Comedy in Recent History

Traditional Panel

93 P - Intersections of Gender, Racialized Labor, and Colonial Formations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Great Lakes

Roundtable Discussions

94 RT - Material Girls in a Material World: The Politics of Black Fashion and Glamour in the African Diaspora

Traditional Panel

95 P - Men at Work: Gender, Injury, and Protection in the American Workplace

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

96 PF - Missing Yin in the Mass Incarceration Movement

Roundtable Discussions

97 RT - Movements: Gender and Disability Histories Beyond the Classroom

Traditional Panel

98 P - Perpetrators, Victims, Plaintiffs, and Defendants: Women Tangled in Legal Systems

Traditional Panel

99 P - Queering Revolutionary Bodies

Traditional Panel

100 P - Reproductive health

Traditional Panel

101 P - Slavery and Mobility

Roundtable Discussions

102 RT - Telling the Story of Feminism on the Web: What can be learned from the conflicts, compromises, and criticisms of doing digital feminist history?

Traditional Panel

103 P - Women in the Medieval World

Workshop

104 W - Challenging borders in research on trafficking and women's migration

Special Events

105 - NCWHS and National Park Service Trip to Sagamore Hill

Special Events

Converging Identities: Gender & Identity

Special Events

Women in Contrast

Traditional Panel

106 P - Alternate structures within the University

Birds of a Feather

107 BOF - Feminists Read Picketty's Capital

Traditional Panel

108 P - Gendering the Office: International Perspectives on Oppression and Resistance in the Workforce during the Twentieth Century

Birds of a Feather

109 BOF - How to Prepare for the Job Market

Birds of a Feather

110 BOF - Teaching Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities in Undergraduate Survey Courses

Birds of a Feather

111 BOF - They Broke Down Barriers: They Transformed History [Co-Sponsored by the Coordinating Committee for Women in History]

Birds of a Feather

112 BOF - Women, Feminism, and Violence

Film

113 F - From Red Power to Standing Rock: Women Still Run the Show

Traditional Panel

114 P - (Re)Production, Biocapital, and the Racial Politics of Women's Health in the Americas]

Roundtable Discussions

115 RT - Black Women and Transformations in Education Since the 1960s

Traditional Panel

116 P - Confronting Methodologies, Proposing New Frameworks: Feminist Research Methods on Sexual Violence in Latin America

Lightning Session

117 LT - Fetal Distraction?: Studying Pregnancy in the Age of Personhood

Traditional Panel

118 P - Gender and Race in Colonizing Contexts

Roundtable Discussions

119 RT - Gender and Work in the Post-2007 Global Economy

Roundtable Discussions

120 RT - Gender Outside the Academy: Career Paths and Preparation for Historians Beyond the Professoriate

Traditional Panel

121 P - Gendered Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Hagiographic Traditions

Traditional Panel

122 P - Impel the heart of humanity to lofty deeds: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Early Black Women's Intellectual Thought

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

123 PF - Invisible Death: Why Is No One Clamoring to Save the Pests?

Lightning Session

124 LT - Is Service the Housework of Academia?

Roundtable Discussions

125 RT - Making Histories of Sexuality and Gender in the Digital Age

Traditional Panel

126 P - Marriage Across a Cultural Divide: The Middle East and the "West"

Traditional Panel

127 P - Policing Sexualities

Conversations between historians and activists

128 C - CANCELLED/Queer Histories of AIDS: A Conversation between Activists and Historians

Traditional Panel

129 P - Racialized and Gendered Experiences with Consumer Capitalism

Conversations between historians and activists

130 C - Social Justice and Sacramental Justice: Radical Activism for Catholic Women's Ordination

Roundtable Discussions

131 RT - STEM Education in Japan: Examining the Professionalization Pipeline for Females

Traditional Panel

132 P - Teaching Global Women's Stories: Examples from the Global South and East Asia

Traditional Panel

133 P - Trade Union Feminisms: Comparative Perspectives

Traditional Panel

134 P - Uncovering Intersectional Australian Identities in Oral History Archives

Roundtable Discussions

135 RT - We need more stories: sharing tales of social justice, intimacy and resistance

Roundtable Discussions

136 RT - Women Against the State: Gender and Collective Action in the Global South

Traditional Panel

137 P - Women Making Scientific Knowledge

Traditional Panel

138 P - Women negotiating the boundaries of justice: the female litigant in Britain and Ireland, c.1400-c.1800

Traditional Panel

139 P - Womens Internationalism in Peace and War

Roundtable Discussions

140 RT - Working Through Latinidad

Lightning Session

141 LT - Writing to Work, Working to Write: Women, Collaboration, and Community

Roundtable Discussions

142 RT - African American Women, State Violence, and History

Traditional Panel

143 P - Colonial Consent: The State, Rape, Power, and Gender in early North America, Senegal, and France

Roundtable Discussions

144 RT - Confronting Domesticity: New Global Histories of Home and Family

Lightning Session

145 LT - Economic Structures and Women's Investments in Emerging Proto-Capitalist Economies

Traditional Panel

146 P - Families, Federal Policy, and Settler Colonialism on the Antebellum U.S. Frontier

Lightning Session

147 LT - Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Women's Sports in Latin America and the United States

Traditional Panel

148 P - Gender, Transnational Mobility and Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region

Traditional Panel

149 P - Gendering and Re-gendering Market Actors, 1870-1950 (BHC-Sponsored Panel)

Roundtable Discussions

150 RT - Homer, Odyssey and Modern Narratives of Return: Male-Authored Texts and Women's War Experience.

Traditional Panel

151 P - International Approaches to the History of Technology and Women's Mobility [Co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology]

Roundtable Discussions

152 RT - Into Our Archive(s): Practicing African American Women's History Across the Centuries

Traditional Panel

153 P - Making Feminism Famous: Iconicity and Celebrity in the Invention of Feminist Identity

Traditional Panel

154 P - Motherhood and Mourning. Gendering Grief in Wartime Japan, Germany and Britain

Roundtable Discussions

155 RT - Often Lost in Translation: A Roundtable on the Role Historians Play in the Public Conversation

Roundtable Discussions

156 RT - Palestine, Women’s Studies and the Indivisibility of Justice

Lightning Session

157 LT - Public health and public health activism

Traditional Panel

158 P - Race and Sexual Politics in Music

Lightning Session

159 LT - Rainy Nights in the Cities: Urban Struggles to Reconceptualize Work, Health, Education and the Environment

Lightning Session

160 LT - Seeking Reproductive Rights Where Religion Rules

Traditional Panel

161 P - Shifting Queer Activisms

Film

162 F - Sosua: Make a Better World

Roundtable Discussions

163 RT - The Lessons of Feminism and Suffrage Forty Years Later

Roundtable Discussions

164 RT - The Politics of Gendered Power Across American History

Traditional Panel

165 P - The Politics of Motherhood in Africa

Roundtable Discussions

166 RT - Women's lives at the center of the History/Social Studies curriculum

Lightning Session

167 LT - Women, Gender, and Medicine in Europe

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

168 PF - “Three Women (Break the Silence)”

Special Events

169 - Welcome and Opening Ceremony

Special Events

170 - Presidential Reception

Plenary Sessions

171 - Indivisibility of Justice and Global Solidarities: From Palestine to Standing Rock, Puerto Rico to Missouri

Plenary Sessions

172 - Migration, Violence, and Human Rights in the Americas: A Feminist Issue

Special Events

173 - Grounded -- A Play by George Brant

Special Events

174 - Berkshire Conference of Women Historians BUSINESS MEETING

Special Events

What's Happening with the Women's History Museum???

Traditional Panel

175 P - As Difficult as We Please: Doing Digital Histories of Gender and Sexuality

Traditional Panel

176 P - Beyond Binaries: Gendering the Master Narrative of Female Aggression in the Middle Ages.

Roundtable Discussions

177 RT - Black Women, Radical Politics, and Struggles for Liberation

Traditional Panel

178 P - Contentious Conversations. Female Deviancy and Women's Speech in Urban Europe in the 15th-17th Centuries

Lightning Session

179 LT - Craft and Rehabilitation: Medicine, Social Service and Science over the 20th Century

Traditional Panel

180 P - Cultural Constructions of Gender and Sexuality

Traditional Panel

181 P - Gendering Warfare I: Women, Violated Bodies and War

Lightning Session

182 LT - Looking for Radicals in All the Wrong Places: Re-Imagining the Locale, Periodization, and Transnational Implications of U.S. Radical Activism

Conversations between historians and activists

183 C - Narrative, Appropriation, and Styles of Objectivity when Confronting Sex Crimes Against Humanity

Traditional Panel

184 P - Oral History, Reproductive Rights, and the State

Traditional Panel

185 P - Organizing Women In a Neoliberal Time

Traditional Panel

186 P - Politics in Print: Women Writers and Consumption in America

Traditional Panel

187 P - Protective Legislation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America

Traditional Panel

188 P - Queering Belongings

Roundtable Discussions

189 RT - Reproductive Politics and Practice in the Twentieth Century: Research and Activism Across Borders

Traditional Panel

190 P - States of Sanity: Gender, Sexuality, and Psychiatric Power

Traditional Panel

191 P - Suffrage Centennials: The United States and the United Kingdom

Roundtable Discussions

192 RT - Teaching Women's Suffrage:US, Global, Intersectional, Interdisciplinary

Traditional Panel

193 P - The Politics of Women's Businesses

Traditional Panel

194 P - The Prisoner's Women: Jail, Social Welfare and the Family in the Anglo-American World, 1600 to the Present

Roundtable Discussions

195 RT - U.S. Homophile Internationalism: An Archive and Exhibit of the 1950s and 1960s

Traditional Panel

196 P - Veiled Voyagers: Muslim Women Travelers from Asia and the Middle East

Traditional Panel

197 P - Violence and Control: Enslaved Women in the Caribbean and Brazil During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Traditional Panel

198 P - Women in Computing: Building Careers, Innovating Technologies, Challenging Misogyny (Sponsored by WITH of the Society for the History of Technology)

Traditional Panel

199 P - Women's Adultery in the Sexual Cultures of Early Modern Korea and France

Special Events

SAY HER NAME: Women Martyrs & Movement Builders

Film

200 F - New York Women's Video Festival Selections, Part I

Special Events

Pura Cruz: An Artist's Life

Special Events

Women's Activism NYC

Traditional Panel

201 P - All in the Family?: Gendering Freedom in Colonial Latin America II

Traditional Panel

202 P - Australian Women and Child Refugees: Gender, History and Displacement

Traditional Panel

203 P - Black Women and the State: A Global Perspective

Traditional Panel

204 P - Comparing Life Histories of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: Revisiting War Agency and Memory

Traditional Panel

205 P - Curating Women: Practice and Process

Lightning Session

206 LT - Expertise in Sexualities: Talking Sex within National Academia and Beyond

Traditional Panel

207 P - Feminism in adverse times - keeping the flame alive

Traditional Panel

208 P - Flower Children, Pagans and Skinny Dippers: Alternative Spiritualities

Traditional Panel

209 P - Gender History and Historical Analysis after the Cultural Turn: New Directions

Lightning Session

210 LT - Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

211 PF - I'm Not Ready to Die Yet: #BlackPoetsSpeakOut Engaging the Past, Present,a nd Future with Our Youth

Roundtable Discussions

212 RT - Integrating Gender, Class, Race, Sexuality into the Social Studies/History curriculum

Traditional Panel

213 P - Memory and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Traditional Panel

214 P - Normal Sex: The First One Hundred Years

Traditional Panel

215 P - Our Muslim Sisters: Women Thinkers, Reform, and Islamic Discourse in Modern Middle East

Traditional Panel

216 P - Public Health, Private Bodies: Medicine, Gender, and Power in (Post) Colonial Contexts

Traditional Panel

217 P - Regulating Women's Bodies: Prostitution, Beauty Pageants, and Piety in Global Perspectives

Traditional Panel

218 P - Sacred Health Technologies: Medicine, Metaphor, and the Marginal Body in Premodern Religious Traditions

Lightning Session

219 LT - Sexualities and Silences: Women on the Radical Left

Roundtable Discussions

220 RT - Teaching Women’s history in the Digital Age: Building a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Traditional Panel

221 P - Textiles, Gender and Imperial Power: The Making of Women and Men

Lightning Session

222 LT - The Long New York Woman Suffrage Movement

Lightning Session

223 LT - The Rural Imaginary in Popular Culture

Traditional Panel

224 P - Water, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Women's Agency

Conversations between historians and activists

225 C - What does Feminist Sports CULTURE Look Like?

Roundtable Discussions

226 RT - Difficult Conversations About Sexual Diversity in the Classroom: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the Netherlands and Japan

Roundtable Discussions

227 RT - Gender and Conflict: A New Journal, New Questions

Birds of a Feather

228 BOF - How Do We Construct an Archive of Women's History?: A Conversation with the Center for Women's History, New-York Historical Society

Birds of a Feather

229 BOF - Motherhood and Scholarship: Alienation, Solidarity and other Issues between Scholars of Motherhood and Mothers in Academia

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

230 PF - Staged Reading: Excerpts from "The Maiden Tribute" by Jean Dobie Giebel

Birds of a Feather

231 BOF - Teaching History as a Graduate Student in the United States

Roundtable Discussions

232 RT - The Position of Liberal Arts Faculty in Community Colleges: Canaries in the Coalmine?

Performance/Analysis: Artist/Scholar Collaboration

233 PF - Unfiltered: Indigenous Women and Photographic Histories Across Two Continents, Shinnecock and Ngarrindjeri perspectives

Roundtable Discussions

234 RT - Women Also Know History: A Media and Curriculum Tool for Promoting Women Scholars

Birds of a Feather

235 BOF - Women in the High School American History Course

Special Events

Converging Identities: Gender & Identity

Lightning Session

236 LT - "No documents, No history": Women, Archives, and History-Making

Traditional Panel

237 P - '…Sexuality is so energizing. . .': Creating Lesbian Activism and Initiating Social Change in the U.S. and Abroad

Traditional Panel

238 P - A Century of Japanese Feminisms under Capitalism: A Celebration and Discussion

Traditional Panel

239 P - A Civil Rights Movement to Speak for Women: The National Organization for Women at Fifty

Traditional Panel

240 P - Bad Girls? Transforming and Performing Adolescence

Traditional Panel

241 P - Battling for Space: Community Organizing in Post World War II Cities

Traditional Panel

242 P - Black and White Bodies as Extracted Labor in the Atlantic World, 1700-1890

Traditional Panel

243 P - Bodies of Standards: Gender and Global Codification Regimes

Traditional Panel

244 P - Comparative Cultures of Childbirth and Childcare

Traditional Panel

245 P - Cultural Representions of Violence and Empowerment

Traditional Panel

246 P - Danger Talk in Abortion Care

Lightning Session

247 LT - Difficult Conversations Ten Years After History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

Lightning Session

248 LT - Difficult Conversations Within Cosmopolitanisms of Faith, Gender and Race.

Traditional Panel

249 P - Fantasies of Female Power in the Era of Global Warfare

Traditional Panel

250 P - Gender and Capitalist Development in Mexico, 1840-1980

Traditional Panel

251 P - Gendering Warfare II: Masculinities, Militaries and War

Conversations between historians and activists

252 C - History Meets Activism: Women's Human Rights

Roundtable Discussions

253 RT - Listening to Lucretia Mott: New Directions in Religion, Rights, and Activism

Traditional Panel

254 P - Paradoxes of Women's Human Rights in The Muslim World

Traditional Panel

255 P - Pedagogy for Social Change: Challenging Stereotypes of Gender

Roundtable Discussions

256 RT - Teaching the History of Gender and Sexuality

Roundtable Discussions

257 RT - The Way Forward From The Comforts of Home

Traditional Panel

258 P - Women and the End of the World: Gender, Political Action, and Ideas of the Apocalypse on the Right, 1970 to the Present

Roundtable Discussions

258 RT - “African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race: Twenty-Five Years Later: A Roundtable,”

Special Events

260 - Presentation and Readings from A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

Plenary Sessions

261 - Election 2016: Looking Back, Going Forward

Digital and Traditional posters

263 PS - Poster Session and Reception sponsored by the Journal of Women's History

Plenary Sessions

264 - Teaching Feminisms in the Neoliberal Academy

Plenary Sessions

265 - Uncovering the Dirty Secrets in your Closet and Your Kitchen: Global Approaches to Organizing Women Workers

Special Events

266 - Digital Media Happy Hour

Special Events

267 - Reception sponsored by Gender & History

Special Events

268 - Film Screening: Brooklyn Roses and Q & A with filmmaker Christine Noschese

Special Events

269 - Dyke Interrupted -- A Performance by Holly Hughes

Special Events

270 - Dance

Roundtable Discussions

271 RT - Historic Fictions: Empathy, Engagement and Feminist Perspectives in the 21st-Century Museum

Traditional Panel

272 P - American Empire through the Eyes of Indigenous Women: Paradigms, Sources and Challenges

Traditional Panel

273 P - Class, Family, and Capitalism in the Early 20th Century United States

Traditional Panel

274 P - Creating Pink Labor in Late 19th and 20th Century US

Traditional Panel

275 P - Difficult Conversations About Conservatism in 20th-Century Europe and Latin America

Traditional Panel

276 P - Engendering Decolonization: The Politics of Development, Aid, and Citizenship

Traditional Panel

277 P - Feminine Accessories and Sexualized Bodies: Women and Photography in 19th and 20th Century North America

Lightning Session

278 LT - In Retrospect: Women's Historians Reflect on Work, Scholarship, and How We Got Here

Traditional Panel

279 P - Making Meaning in Intimate and Social Spaces: The Heart of the US Lesbian and Gay Movement

Traditional Panel

280 P - Making Sex: Global Sex Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Traditional Panel

281 P - Oral History's Difficult Conversations: Reflections on Method and Practice in Gender History

Traditional Panel

282 P - Reading Bodies, Violence, and Disability: Enslaved Women's Reproduction, Resistance, and Identity

Traditional Panel

283 P - Women Thinkers and Islamic Concepts in the Modern Middle East

Traditional Panel

284 P - Women, Gender and the Significance of the 1917 Russian Revolutions

Traditional Panel

285 P - “Intimate Empires: Identity and Gender in the Shadow of the United States”

Roundtable Discussions

286 RT - Teaching Women's History In and Out of the High School Classroom

Workshop

287 W - Governing Women in Capitalism on Three Continents

Workshop

288 W - Regulating Domestic Service: Household Workers' Labor Rights in Twentieth Century Latin America and the Caribbean

Workshop

289 W - Women Reflecting on Social Transformations: Mobility, Society and the Urban Experience in Immigrant Cities, 1843-1925

Special Events

Women's Activism NYC

Special Events

SAY HER NAME: Women Martyrs & Movement Builders

Traditional Panel

290 P - A Uniquely Female Crime: Fertility Control and the Law Across the Americas

Traditional Panel

291 P - Entwined Histories: Recasting the History of the Temperance Movement and Women's Activism in the United States

Traditional Panel

292 P - Female Confinement in Modern History

Traditional Panel

293 P - Feminism and the Politics of Motherhood in the Twentieth Century

Traditional Panel

294 P - From Rape to Militarized Prostitution: Sexual Violence and Nationalism

Traditional Panel

295 P - Gender, Visual Culture and Imperialism in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century India, From the Mughal Empire to the British East India Company

Traditional Panel

296 P - Gendering the Big Picture of Slavery and Abolition

Roundtable Discussions

297 RT - In Honor of Ros Baxandall: A Conversation on Left Feminism and Sexual Radicalism

Traditional Panel

298 P - Leisure, Laundries, and Relief: Gendering Capitalism in Twentieth-Century America

Traditional Panel

299 P - Lesbian Mobilities and Politics in Transnational Contexts Since the 1970s

Traditional Panel

300 P - Representing Women Across Time and Space

Roundtable Discussions

301 RT - Sex/Wars: Gender on the Front Lines

Roundtable Discussions

302 RT - Storytelling, Memory, Imagination: Narrative and the Writing of History

Traditional Panel

303 P - Women Creating Religious Practice

2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities

Thursday, June 1, 2017

8:30 AM-9:00 AM

9:00 AM-10:15 AM

9:00 AM-11:30 AM

10:15 AM-11:30 AM

11:00 AM-4:00 PM

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Friday, June 2, 2017

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Saturday, June 3, 2017

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Sunday, June 4, 2017

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