Fall 2021

This research seminar brings together faculty and advanced graduate students working on projects that engage the theme of gender and sexuality in historical perspective. Encouraging academic exchanges across disciplinary boundaries, this seminar will meet regularly for research presentations by affiliated faculty and graduate students, lectures from invited speakers, and discussions of current scholarship. Deliberately broad in scope, this seminar will explore gender in a wide variety of historical periods and geographic contexts. Among the questions we will ask are how a gender analysis can shape studies of sexuality and ideas of the body; the ways in which race, ethnicity, class and gender are relationally constituted and intersect in historically important ways; and finally, the ways in which a gender analysis can help illuminate major political transformations.

Events

• All Meetings will be held via Zoom. Friday, September 24, 2021, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Research talk: Margaret Andersen (Associate Professor, History) Title: “Denied the Joys of Motherhood”: Infertility, Medicine, and Women’s Voices in Interwar France Monday, October 4, 2021, 3:30pm – 5:00pm Of interest to seminar participants: Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture on Judaic Studies: The Politics of Risk and Resistance: Thinking Gender, Disability, and State Violence through Ancient Jewish Story, Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University Friday, October 22, 2021, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Discussion of Manon Garcia, We are not born submissive (Princeton UP, 2021) November 19, 2021, 11:00am – 12:00pm Joint meeting with Just Environments seminar: Maria Stehle (MFLL) and Joela Jacobs: “A Conversation about Little Joe (dir. Hausner, 2019), Interspecies Relations and Plant Sexualities” December 3, 2021, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Research talk: Claire Mayo (PhD candidate, history): Title: The Performance of Citizenship and the Gender of Recovery Aid: A Case Study of the Great Flood of 1910 Spring 2022 January 28, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Research talk: Alyssa Culp (PhD candidate, History) Title: The Dead Do Tell Tales: Corpse Women and the Legitimization of the Bavarian Morgue February 11, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Invited talk: Meghan Roberts, Bowdoin College Title: TBA March 25, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Research talk: Brooke Bauer (Assistant Professor, History) Title: TBA April 8, 12:45pm – 1:45pm Research talk: Annachiara Mariani and Gregory Whited (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures) Title: TBA