@UIUC: Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History (8-10 Mar)

Next Thurs-Sat. will be the Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History here on campus at the Levis Faculty Center. Four EALC students will be presenting papers and two additional students will be there as respondents. There are a few additional papers dealing with Chinese history. It would be great if you could attend some of these sessions.

All panel sessions are free and open to the public. Although there will be registration, I’ve been assured you do not need to register.

Here are the panels with EALC students and below is the complete schedule with EALC students and East Asia-related panels highlighted:

Thursday, March 8
1:00-2:30
Gendered Beliefs and Religious Experience
Room 402, Session 1
“Hermaphrodite Shaman: Understanding Female-Male Shaman Combination in Japanese Shamanism”
Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“‘New Kamakura Buddhism’ Revisited: The Putative Transition in Dōgen’s Thought and the Question of its Subsequent Effect on Female Religious Practices within Soto Zen”
Brandon Pieczko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Commentator: Joshua Herr, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC

Friday, March 9
10:15-11:45
Consuming Women/Women Consuming
Music Room, Session 5.2
Commentator: Hui Xiao, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC

1:40-3:10
Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Women
Room 402, Session 7.1
“Inscribing a Japanese Lesbian Community: Transnational Flows, Historical Roots, and Local Lives”
James Welker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


1:40-3:00
Teaching Gender, Disciplining Bodies
Music Room, Session 7.2
“‘Recuperating the National Body’: Intersections of Gender and Race in Imperial Japan”
Rebecca Nickerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign




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Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


March 8-10, 2007

Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana



Thursday, March 8

1:00-2:30
Gendered Beliefs and Religious Experience
Room 402, Session 1

Chair: Professor Ken Cuno, History, UIUC

“The American Muslim Challenge to Traditional Gender Norms in Their Faith Communities”
Mahruq F. Khan, Loyola University Chicago

“Hermaphrodite Shaman: Understanding Female-Male Shaman Combination in Japanese Shamanism”
Yeonjoo Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“‘New Kamakura Buddhism’ Revisited: The Putative Transition in Dōgen’s Thought and the Question of its Subsequent Effect on Female Religious Practices within Sōtō Zen”
Brandon Pieczko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“An Enduring Sisterhood: Modern American Women Who Convert to Islam and Their Relationship to Muslim Women of the Past”
Joy Schulz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Commentator: Joshua Herr, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC

2:45-4:15
Body Politics in the Longue Durée
Room 402, Session 2

Chair: Professor Samantha Frost, Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC

“The Original Tribade: The Roman Poet Martial’s Phallic Woman as Social Power”
Laura Van Abbema, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Obscenity, Re-placed Gender and the Imagery of the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, MS Hunter 252”
Elise Boneau, Western Michigan University

“‘Her Eyes are Sunk into Her Head, God Bless Us From Her’: The Image of the Old Witch in Early Modern England”
Gina Martino, Minnesota State University, Mankato

“‘A Certain Amount of Prudishness’: Making a Legal Space for American Nudism, 1947-58”
Brian Hoffman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator: Jennifer Edwards, History, UIUC

4:30-6:00
Marital Relation(ship)s
Room 402, Session 3

Chair: Professor Elizabeth Pleck, History, UIUC

“The Other’s Representation in the Family Organization: Married Women’s Relationships with Natal Families in Qing and Republican China”
Chia-Lan Chang, University of Southern California

“Subverting Women’s Traditional Sources of Power and Autonomy: An Essay on the Cultural Dynamics of Female Genital Mutilation in Africa”
Christophe Dongmo, Vanderbilt University

“Drawing the Curtain: Placing the Issue of Marital Rape in the American Woman’s Movement, 1860-1890”
Phyllis Thompson Reid, Harvard University

Commentator: Amanda Brian, History, UIUC

Plenary Address – 7:00
“Modern Girls in Early-Twentieth-Century China”
Tze-lan Deborah Sang
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures University of Oregon
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Reception sponsored by Gender & History, to follow in the Spurlock Museum Atrium

In this talk Professor Sang examines the Chinese modern girl in the 1920s and 1930s, a chameleon-like figure that appeared in a wide variety of representations. In particular, she explores how the modern girl image became inflected when it passed from both modernist and elite leftist discourses into middle-brow fiction. She argues that whereas the bourgeois modern girl was by turns glamorized and abjected, stories of lower-class “failed modern girls” were full of pathos and ambiguous class ideology.


Friday, March 9

8:30-10:00
Heroes and Heroines? War and Gender
Room 402, Session 4.1

Chair: Professor Dana Rabin, History, UIUC

“The ‘New Man’ that Women Helped Create: Negotiating Masculinity in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1975”
Johanna I. Moya Fábregas, Indiana University, Bloomington

“Heroic Masculinity: Rite of Passage, Homoeroticism and Martyrdom in Basque Falangist Narrative during the Spanish Civil War"
Iker González-Allende, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“‘To the Front, From the Women of the USSR’: Necessity, Ideology and Gender in the Soviet War Effort”
Steven Jug, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Masculinities and the Soldiers in Revolt: The Fall of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1968-1973”
Martin Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator: Ashley Howard, History, UIUC

8:30-10:00
Re-forming the Public
Music Room, Session 4.2

Chair: Professor Carol Symes, History, UIUC

“Fighting Shirley Chisholm: Discourses of Race and Gender in U.S Politics”
Yveline Alexis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Androgyny and the Urban Landscape: Lesbian Gender and the Creation of Homosexual Community in Chicago”
Melanie Beaudette, Loyola University Chicago

“Unruly Women, Uneasy Men: Gendered Reactions to the Johnson-Jeffries Prizefight of 1910”
Shannon Smith Bennett, Indiana University, Bloomington

“Thucydides 2.45.2 and the Rhetoric of Female Exclusion”
Irene Peirano, Harvard University

Commentator: Kwame Holmes, History, UIUC

10:15-11:45
Media(ting) Gender
Room 402, Session 5. 1

Chair: Professor Tamara Matheson, History, UIUC

“‘I Can’t Bear to See Ms. Getting More and More like a Yuppie, Post-Feminist Rag’: The Feminist Movement, Media and Decline”
Diana Cucuz, McMaster University

“Lock ‘Em Up or Throw ‘Em Out: Race, Gender and the Welfare State in the Bone Thugs in Harmony Video ‘1st of Tha Month’”
Clare Daniel, University of New Mexico

“Patriarchal Perceptions of Women Workers in West Virginia Socialist Newspapers 1910-1920: A Movement Contaminated by the Overlying Social Schema”
Joseph Key, Marshall University

“‘Tonight the Quaker Girl Turns Modern’: The Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women’s Gendered Depictions of the Past, 1916-1939”
Emily Westkaemper, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Commentator: Lise Mae Schlosser, English, Northern Illinois University

10:15-11:45
Consuming Women/Women Consuming
Music Room, Session 5.2

Chair: Professor Clare Crowston, History, UIUC

“Spice Girls: Cooking in Antebellum Boston”
Aniruddha Bose, Boston College

“An Easily Understood Problem: The Passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974)”
Lawrence Bowdish, The Ohio State University

“‘Fashion Favors the Mother-To-Be’: Maternity Clothes and the Changing Perceptions of Pregnancy in America from the 1910s to the 1960s in America”
Cheryl Lemus, Northern Illinois University

“Myth and Modernity in Manet’s Gypsy with a Cigarette (Gitane à la Cigarette), 1862”
Rozanne Stringer, University of Kansas

Commentator: Hui Xiao, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC


1:40-3:10
Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Women
Room 402, Session 7.1

Chair: Professor Alejandro Lugo, Anthropology, UIUC

“The Irish Ladies’ Land League in the United States: Gender, Class, and Ethnic Nationalism in the Gilded Age”
Ely M. Janis, Boston College

“Women without Race: Japanese War Brides in the Postwar Era”
Angela Tudico, University of Maryland

“How the International Women’s Movement Discovered the ‘Troubles’: Transnational Encounters against the Background of the Northern Ireland Conflict during the 1970s”
Janou Vorderwuelbecke, European University Institute

“Inscribing a Japanese Lesbian Community: Transnational Flows, Historical Roots, and Local Lives”
James Welker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator: Brandon Mills, History, UIUC

1:40-3:00
Teaching Gender, Disciplining Bodies
Music Room, Session 7.2

Chair: Professor Cris Mayo, Educational Policy Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC

“Schools of Sex: Competition over the Education of Girls in Colonial Zanzibar”
Corrie R. Decker, University of California, Berkeley

“‘Recuperating the National Body’: Intersections of Gender and Race in Imperial Japan”
Rebecca Nickerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Chhadi Lage Chham Chham Vidya Yeyi Gham Gham (The harder the stick beats, the faster the flow of knowledge): Dalit Women’s Struggle for Education”
Shailaja Paik, Emory University and University of Warwick

Commentator: Rebecca McNulty Schreiber, History, UIUC

Tea & Coffee – 3:00-4:00

Plenary Address – 4:00
“Cover Up: French Gender Equality and Islamic Headscarves”
Joan W. Scott
Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
Reception from 6:00 to 8:00, Levis Faculty Center, 1st Floor

When the French government passed a law banning Islamic headscarves in public schools, one of the justifications for it was that it would guarantee the equality of women. Professor Scott’s talk will critically examine that justification. She will suggest that we need to reexamine universal ideas of women’s emancipation and the political uses to which they are put.


Saturday, March 10
Coffee and Pastries – 8:00-8:30

8:30-10:00
Geographies of Resistance, Part I
Room 402, Session 8
(Note: This panel is “linked” to the panel in Session 9; attendance at both panels is highly encouraged, but not required.)

Chair: Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, History and Sociology, UIUC

“Women of Algiers: Music as a Strategy of Sublimating the Post-Independence Trauma”
Nicola C. Dach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Los Homosexuales Speak: Love, Modernity, and Identity in 1980s Uruguay”
Ryan M. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Tales of Hulan River: Xiao Hong’s Writings of Homelessness and Critique of the Nation in 1930s China”
Chunchun Ting, University of Chicago

“Women and Resistance in Huntington, West Virginia’s Glass Industry”
Ginny Young, Marshall University

Commentator: Gregory Kveberg, History, UIUC

10:15-11:45
Geographies of Resistance, Part II
Room 402, Session 9
(Note: This panel is “linked” to the panel in Session 8; attendance at both panels is highly encouraged, but not required.)

Chair: TBA

“Ladies in Red: Women, Communism, and Labor Unions in Early Twentieth Century Bombay”
Rachel Ball, Boston College

“Women’s Liberation and Revolutionary Bodies in Modern China: A Reconsideration”
Anup Grewal, University of Chicago

“Making the YWCA Relevant: Black Women’s Impact on the Interracial Practice of the Milwaukee YWCA, 1940s-1970s”
Crystal Moten, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Commentator: Diana Georgescu, History, UIUC

1:15-2:45
The Politics of Reproduction
Room 402, Session 10.1

Chair: Professor Ruth Nicole Brown, Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC

“The ‘Desiring Girl’ and Negotiations of Sexual Normativity in Hillbilly Marriage Scandals”
Ryan Cartwright, University of Minnesota

“A ‘Tremendous and Heart-Sickening Operation’: The Embryotomy and Conceptualization of Fetal Life in Nineteenth-Century Medical Literature”
Kathleen King, Purdue University

“‘Dey Swapped my Grandmother Away’: Enslaved Women and Reproduction in the Antebellum South”
Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of California, Los Angeles

“Justice Triumphant, 1731: Prints of Sodomites in the Dutch Republic and Gender Performance Pollution”
Maureen Warren, University of Kansas

Commentator: Michelle Kleehammer, History, UIUC

1:15-2:45
Other Citizens: Gendered Relationships to the State
Music Room, Session 10.2

Chair: Professor Lynne Curry, History, Eastern Illinois University

“‘Ghetto Guerillas’: African-American Vietnam Veterans and White Fears of Violence, 1965-1972”
Charlotte Cahill, Northwestern University

“Neocons are No ‘Sissies’: Reconstructing American Jewish Masculinity in the 1960s”
Ronnie Grinberg, Northwestern University

“‘Publicity Means Opposition’: Conflicts between Local, State-Wide and National Suffrage Organizing Tactics in the Ohio Suffrage Campaign of 1914”
Jessica Pliley, The Ohio State University

Commentator: Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, History, UIUC

3:00-4:30
The Life of an Article: Publishing in an Academic Journal
Featured Roundtable Hosted by the Journal of Women’s History
Music Room, Session 11

Panelists:
Professor Antoinette Burton, UIUC, Co-Editor (with Professor Jean Allman, UIUC)
Professor Marilyn Booth, UIUC, Book Review Editor
Amanda Brian, UIUC, Managing Editor
Sandra Henderson, UIUC, Managing Editor
James Warren, UIUC, Managing Editor

During this roundtable session, members of the editorial staff of the Journal of Women’s History, based at the University of Illinois, will discuss the editorial process and answer questions regarding the preparation, review, and publication of academic journal articles.