Celebration of the Work of Nancy Cott

Date: 

Friday, October 20, 2017, 3:00pm

Location: 

See Itinerary. Saturday, October 21, 2017, 9:30am - 6:00pm

Please note: for invited guests. If you did not receive an invitation and would like to RSVP, please email nancyfest2017@gmail.com 

 

Please join us to celebrate the work of our dear teacher, friend and colleague Nancy F. Cott, at Harvard University, Friday, Oct. 20, 4pm through Saturday, Oct. 21, 6pm.

The preliminary program is below. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who would like to join in celebrating Nancy’s work.

 

PROGRAM:

Celebrating the Work of Nancy F. Cott

Harvard University
October 20 – 21, 2017

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017
3-4pm  Check-in and Refreshments
Sever Hall Rm. 113

4-5:30pm  THE IMPACT OF NANCY COTT’S SCHOLARSHIP ON THE ACADEMY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE
Chair: Jill Lepore, Harvard University

Reframing the History of Women in the Nineteenth Century 

Lori Ginzberg (Pennsylvania State University)

Redefining the Feminisms of the Twentieth-Century 

Bethany Moreton (Dartmouth College)

Remaking Marriage in the Twenty-first Century: The Historian Goes to Court

George Chauncey (Columbia University)

6pm  RECEPTION
Carol K. Pforzheimer Reading Room of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute - MAP
Hosted by Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director; and Marilyn Dunn, Executive Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2017
9:30am  Check-in
Barker Center, Thompson Room - MAP

10-11:45am  19th CENTURY WOMEN’S/GENDER HISTORY 
Chair:  Beryl Satter, Rutgers University
 
Female Benevolence at Home and Abroad

Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University  

Converging Histories of Women and Gender

Tera Hunter, Princeton University 

 Designing, Masking and Performing Gender in the Slave Female’s Costume

Brenda Stevenson, UCLA

 Gender and the Union War

Elizabeth Varon, University of Virginia

11:45 – 1:15 Lunch (Provided)
Barker Center
 

1:15-3pm TWENTIETH-CENTURY FEMINISMS
Chair: Molly Ladd-Taylor, York University

A Woman Making History

Katherine Marino, Ohio State University

Being Beauvoir at 60 in 1968

Judith Coffin, University of Texas at Austin 

The Grounding of Transnational Feminism

Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University

(Non)Marriage and (In)Equality

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania

Unraveling the Bonds of Womanhood: Late Twentieth-Century Feminisms

Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University
 

3:15-5pm  QUEER HISTORIES 
Chair: Regina Kunzel, Princeton University

No Small Courage: Mentoring and Methods in Queer and Trans History

Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto 

 Inventing Histories of Sexuality & Queering the Eighteenth Century

Clare Lyons, University of Maryland

Rethinking Domesticity: Gender, Sexuality, and the Queer Historiography of Home

Stephen Vider, Bryn Mawr College 

Gay History from Inside the Police Station 

Anna Lvovsky, Harvard Law School 

Queer History and the Legacy of Academic Mentoring

Rebecca Davis, University of Delaware


5:15-5:45 CLOSING REMARKS  
Chair: Ann Braude, Harvard University
John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
Nancy Cott,  Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University
 

Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, with support from the Office of the President; the Mahindra Humanities Center; the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; the FAS Division of Social Science; American Studies; Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality; the History Department, and the Women’s Studies in Religion Program.

 

 

 

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