"2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series"

The Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender—cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—offers scholars and students an opportunity to discuss new research on any aspect of the history of women and gender in the United States, without chronological limitation.

The seminar series includes four meetings that will take place during the 2007–2008 academic year, each revolving around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the evening's host will serve a light buffet supper.

Meeting locations will alternate between the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute. Seminar meetings will take place on Thursday evenings from 5:15 to 7 p.m. A light buffet supper will follow.

Download registration form here.
Registration is for the full series.

Registered participants may access the papers on-line at the Massachusetts Historical Society Web site. For more information, please call 617-495-8647.

Seminar Sessions

Thursday, October 18, 2007
"A Sporting Chance: Billie Jean King, Title IX, and the Revolution in Women's Sports"
Susan Ware, independent scholar
Comment: Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

RESCHEDULED for Thursday, January 10, 2007
"Last Man to Die: Vietnam and the Soldier as Citizen"
Robert Self RI ’08, Brown University
Comment: Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

Thursday, February 21, 2008
"Every History Has Its History: The Creation of Feminist Origins Stories"
Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University
Comment: Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

Thursday, April 10, 2008
"For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics, 1877 to 1932"
Lisa Materson, University of California at Davis
Comment: Nina Silber, Boston University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215