“2008–2009 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 2008–2009 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 5:30 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 23, 2008
“Second/Third Wave Feminism: The Case of Helen Gurley Brown”
Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College
Comment: Alice Jardine, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thursday, February 12, 2009
“Race Work, Women's Work: African American Women and History in Massachusetts”
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
Comment: Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Thursday, March 19, 2009
“A Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of US Expansionism”
Amy G. Richter, Clark University
Comment: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thursday, April 16, 2009
“Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era”
Jacqueline Castledine, Empire State College, State University of New York
Comment: Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts