Events 2011-2012

Friday, September 16, 2011, 4:30 - 6:30pm:

Welcome Back Party
Hosted by Emily Burrill

Friday, September 30, 2011, 4:30 - 6:30pm:

Race, Gender, and Conservative Politics in U.S. History
Duke University • 210 East Duke Building • The Blue Parlor • Directions
Speakers:
• Jennifer Donnally, Graduate Student, American History, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Sam Hemingway, Graduate Student, American History, Dept. of History, North Carolina Central University
• Elizabeth Lundeen, Graduate Student, American History, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Joshua Lynn, Graduate Student, American History, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Special thanks to the Program in Women’s Studies at Duke University and the Triangle African American
History Colloquium for co-sponsoring this event

Friday, October 14, 2011, 4:30 - 6:30pm:

Gender, Religion, and Sexuality
Hosted by Jocelyn Olcott
Speakers:
• Elizabeth Clark, Professor, Dual appointments in Dept. of Religion and Dept. of History, Duke University
• Megan Goodwin, Graduate Student, Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor, South Asia and the British Empire, Dept. of History, Duke University

Friday, November 11, 2011, 4:30 - 6:30pm:

Global Feminisms
Hosted by Jocelyn Olcott
Speakers:
• Jocelyn Olcott, Associate Professor, Latin American History, Dept. of History, Duke University
• Sarah Summers, Graduate Student, Modern European and Gender History, Dept. of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Ara Wilson, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:30 - 6:30pm:

Re-Framing the U.S. Women's Movement
UNC-Chapel Hill • Institute for the Arts & Humanities • Hyde Hall • Incubator Room • Directions
Speakers:
• Melissa Estes Blair, History and Political Science Faculty, Warren Wilson College
• Stephanie Gilmore, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies,
Dickenson College
• Lisa Levenstein, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, UNC-Greensboro
• Stephanie Rytilahti, Graduate Student, Dept. of History, Duke University
• Marjorie Spruill, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
• Paige Welch, Graduate Student, Dept. of History, Duke University

Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:00 - 6:00pm:

Gender and the Law
UNC-Chapel Hill • Love House and Hutchins Forum • Directions
Speakers:
• Erin Arizzi, PhD Student, Department of Communication Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Working Wo/men after Wal-Mart v. Dukes
• Jeannine Cole, PhD Student, Department of History, Duke University
Creating Marriage and State Surveillance in New Orleans, 1890 - 1917
• Julia Rudolph, Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University

Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10:45am - 12:45pm:

African American Women Organizers
UNC-Chapel Hill • Institute for the Arts & Humanities • Hyde Hall • University Room • Directions
A panel co-sponsored by the Working Group in Feminism and History at the Triangle African American History
Colloquium's Sixth Annual Conference Defining Freedom in African American History and Culture
Speakers:
• Valerie Wade, Duke University
The Least of These: Autonomy, Delinquent Youth, and the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls
• Anna S. Agbe-Davies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Freedom is as Freedom Does: The Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls in Archaeological Perspective
• Ashley Farmer, Harvard University
The Twain Has Met: Audley Moore and the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, 1955-1963
Chair: Valinda Littlefield, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
More information on the conference

Thursday, March 15, 2012:

Many Paths: From Writing Group to First Book
Three friends discuss the long and winding roads that brought them from their days at WGFH to the publication
of their first books.
Speakers:
• Natalie M. Fousekis, author of
Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 (University of Illinois Press)
• Kathryn Newfont, author of
Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
(forthcoming in February 2012 from University of Georgia Press)
• Kirsten Marie Delegard, author of
Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States (Penn Press, 2012)
With an Introduction by Jacquelyn Hall and Comments by Nancy Hewitt

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