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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 |
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