"2009–2010 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 2009–2010 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.

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.

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 15, 2009
“Historicizing Social Citizenship in the United States: Gender, Disability, and Comparative Perspectives”
Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont
Comment: Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

Thursday, December 10, 2009
“How Are the Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War”
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Comment: Nina Silber, Boston University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

CANCELLED
Thursday, March 18, 2010
“'Grandeurs Which I Had Heard Of’: Women Travelers and Print Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic”
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

Thursday, April 22, 2010
“Making 'False Delicacy’ True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1935–1845”
April Haynes, Massachusetts Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society
Comment: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138