Thursday, October 13, 2011–Thursday, April 12, 2012
Various times and locations, 617-495-8647

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 2011–2012 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 13, 2011
“‘Paying for “Freedom” with Her Health’: Rising Life Expectancy, Women’s Aging, and American Youth Culture”
Helen Veit, Michigan State University
Comment: Brooke Blower, Boston University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

Thursday, December 8, 2011
EVENT POSTPONED. New Date TBA.
“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Logic of the Early Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Jennifer Morgan, New York University
Comment: Linda Heywood, Boston University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

Thursday, February 9, 2012
“Performing Civil Rights: Black Women Entertainers, the ‘Long’ Civil Rights Movement, and Second Wave Feminism”
Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark
Comment: Daphne Brooks RI '11, Princeton University
Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Room
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

Thursday, April 12, 2012
“Black Milk: Maternal Bodies, Wet Nursing, and the Value of Black Women’s Invisible Labor in the Antebellum Slave Market”
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Rutgers University
Comment: Walter Johnson RI '11, Harvard University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215