Workshop: "Gender, Experience, and Memory, 18th and 19th Centuries"

Time: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 (all day)

Location: UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall

Sponsored by:

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Institute for Arts and Humanities; Department of History; Carolina Women's Center; Curriculum in Women's Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Graduate School)
• Duke University (Department of History; Graduate School)
• The University of York (Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies)
• Free University of Berlin (Berlin School for Comparative European History and Center for French Studies)

This workshop is designed to bring together graduate and postdoctoral students from Britain, Germany, and the United States to discuss recent approaches to the history of experience and memory from a gendered perspective. The workshop will discuss case studies from East and West European, Caribbean, Latin American, and North American history (18-20th centuries). Its goals are to help (post)graduate students to integrate the gender dimension more systematically into their research on experiences and memory. More broadly, the workshop will promote comparative and trans-national research that includes gender as one important category of analysis.

The themes of this workshop will complement the subsequent international conference, "Gender, War, and Politics: Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 - 1820," which will take place at the UNC Center for Arts and Humanities from May 17-19, 2007. The workshop will thus provide a crucial link between ongoing research at the senior level and the emerging interests and work of graduate students.

Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Please register by April 30, 2007.

For additional information or to register, please contact Lawrence Hare at hare@email.unc.edu.