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CALL FOR PAPERS: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History

“Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”

June 9-12, 2011

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Proposals due March 1, 2010.

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011.

2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the 100th anniversary of [...]

The Woman with Worn-out Shoes: Gender and Homelessness in the Great Depression

A lecture by ELAINE ABELSON
Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College; Senior Lecturer in History Studies, NSSR

November 11, Wednesday
4 to 6 PM

Presented by The New School Gender Studies Program Fall 2009 Lecture Series

80 Fifth Avenue at 14th St., Room 802

This event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

Thirty Year Reflections on Women on the Line: Changes and Continuities in Women’s Work

Miriam Glucksmann, author of Women on the Line

Presented by the NYU the Center for the United States and the Cold War at the Tamiment Library; co-sponsored by the New York Labor History Association

October 26, Monday
5 to 7 PM

Comments by Linda Gordon, History, NYU

The Tamiment Library
Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
10th Floor
between LaGuardia Place and Greene Street

For [...]

Before Sex: One Day Conference at Rutgers University

October 23, 2009
8:30 AM to 6 PM

Teleconference Room
4th floor of Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated to suggest that the categories of oppositional gender [...]