Conference Program

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Thursday, 17 May 2007:


Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:00 - 9:30 am


Welcome
9:30 - 9:45 am


John McGowan (Institute for Arts and Humanities)

Lloyd S. Kramer (UNC at Chapel Hill)
Gisela Mettele (GHI Washington)
Alex Roland (Duke University)



Introduction: Gender, War, and Politics - The Wars of Revolution and Liberation in a Transatlantic Perspective
9:45-10:15 am

Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill)


Panel 1: Gender, War, and Empires
10:15 am  - 1:15 pm


David Eltis (Emory University):
Gender, War and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1775 - 1820

(abstract)


Laurent Dubois (Michigan State University):
Citoyennes and War in the French Caribbean
(abstract)

Sherry Johnson (University of Florida): 
Maintaining the Homefront: Widows, Wives and War in Cuba in the late 18th Century

(abstract)


Coffee Break: 11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Comment: Catherine Hall (University of London) 
Chair: Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill)



Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 pm



Panel 2: National Masculinities and Femininities and their Others
2:30 - 5:15 pm


David O’ Brien
(University of Illinois, Urbana)
Militarism and Gender Differentiation in French History Painting from the Revolution to the Restoration

(abstract)

Jane Rendall (University of York): 
From Eighteen Hundred and Eleven to Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: British Women Writing War and Empire.
(abstract)

Matthew Brown (University of Bristol): 
Creating National Heroes in the Spanish American Wars of Independence
(abstract)

Coffee Break: 3:45 - 4:00 pm

Comment: Anna Clark (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Lloyd S. Kramer (UNC at Chapel Hill)



Coffee Break: 5:15 - 6:00 pm


Public Keynote Lecture:
Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
6:00 – 8:00 pm


Grand versus Francis : Gender, Imperial Warfare, and a Wider Transatlantic World
Linda Colley (Princeton University) 
Chair: Barbara Harris (UNC at Chapel Hil)


Reception

Dinner at the Carolina Club: Start between 8:15 and 8:30pm



Friday, 18 May 2005:

Panel 3: Men at War: Masculinity and Soldiers’ War Experiences
9:00 am – 12:00 pm


Alan Forrest (University of York): 
Citizenship, Honor and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the Revolution and Empire
(abstract)

Stefan Dudink (Radboud University, Nijmegen): 
The Constancy of War: Politics, Masculinity, and Military Careers in the Netherlands, 1780-1815 (abstract)

Claudia Kraft (University of Erfurt): 
Noble Knights into Polish Warriors? Reshaping Masculinities in Polish Revolutionary Warfare (abstract)

Gregory T. Knouff (Keene State College):
White Men in Arms: Concepts of Citizenship and Masculinity in Revolutionary America
(abstract)

Coffee Break: 10:45 - 11:00 am

Comment: Brian Holden Reid (Kings College London) 
Chair: Terence V. McIntosh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)



Lunch
12:00 - 1:30 pm



Panel 4: Women at War: Female War Experiences in the Military
1:30 – 4:00 pm


Holly A. Mayer (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh):
Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens:  Women with the American Army, 1775-1783
(abstract)

Catriona Kennedy (University of York): 
From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo
(abstract)

Thomas Cardoza (Truckee Meadows, Community College): 
Habits Appropriate to Her Sex: The Female Military Experience in France in the Age of Revolution (abstract)

Coffee Break: 2:45 - 3:00pm

Comment:
D'Ann Campbell (U.S. Coast Guard Academy Foundation)

Chair:
Richard Kohn (UNC at Chapel Hill)

Coffee Break: 4:00 - 4:30pm

Panel 5: Home Fronts: Families and the War at Home
4:30 – 6:30 pm


Patricia Lin (University of California at Berkeley): 
British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (abstract)

Alexander M. Martin (University of Notre Dame): 
A German in Moscow:  Russia’s Home Front in 1812 and the Evangelical Awakening
(abstract)

Elizabeth Colwill (San Diego State University): 
"Remember what you owe to the mother country!" State Ritual and Freedwomen's Politics in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue
(abstract)

Comment: Gisela Mettele (GHI Washington)
Chair: Dirk Bönker (Duke University)



Concert by the UNC Music Department and Dinner at the Carolina Club: 7:30 pm


Saturday, 19 May 2005:

Panel 6: Gender, Nation and Wars: Patriotic and Revolutionary Actions and Movements
9:00 - 11:30 am


Emma V. Macleod (University of Stirling): 
'Thinking minds of both sexes': patriotism, British bluestockings, and the wars against revolutionary America and France, 1775-1802
(abstract)

Katherine Aaslestad (West Virginia University):
Female Patriotism in the Hanseatic Cities during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
(abstract)

Karen Racine (University of Guelph): 
Patria, Patriotism, and Patriarchy in the Print Media: Gender and Nation-Building in the Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1808-1825
(abstract)

Cecilia Morgan (University of Toronto): 
Gender, Loyalty, and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath in Upper Canada
(abstract)

Coffee Break: 10:45 - 11:00 am

Comment: Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University) 
Chair: Jay Smith (UNC at Chapel Hill) 



Lunch
11:45 - 1:00 pm


Panel 7: Gendering War Memories
1:00 - 4:00 pm


Sarah Chambers (University of Minnesota): 
Constructing Memory and Making Claims: Women's Petitioning of the Chilean State after Independence from Spain
(abstract)

Kathleen DuVal (UNC at Chapel Hill): 
Gender, Memory, and Forgetfulness in the American Revolution
(abstract)

Ruth Leiserowitz (Free University of Berlin):
"Where have all the young girls gone?": Gender Images of the "Patriotic War" of 1812 in Russian Popular Memory
(abstract)

Wolfgang Koller (Free University of Berlin):
Heroic Times: Gendered Images of the Anti-napoleonic Wars in German Feature Films of the Interwar Period
(abstract)

Coffee Break: 2:45 - 3:00 pm

Comment: Judith Miller (Emory University)
Chair: Wayne E. Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill)



Coffee Break: 4:00 - 4:15 pm



Panel 8: Final Discussion: Does Gender Change the Narrative?
4:15 – 6:00 pm
Comments


Lynn Hunt (University of Los Angeles) 
Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)

Christopher Dandeker (Kings College, London)
Alex Roland (Duke University)

Chair:
Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill)

Southern Barbecue with Bluegrass Music by Tommy Edwards and his Band in the New Rooms of the Center for the American South: 7:30pm