PRE!CONFERENCE HISTORY COLLOQUIUMThursday, April 146:30 pm - 9:00 pmMerrill Room 2120, Frances Scott Key Hall University of Maryland, College Park

DOING HISTORY, DOING FEMINISM: THREE DECADES OF CHANGEDiscussion with Feminist Studies history editors, past and present. Presented by the Department of History, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, and the Women’s and Gender History Caucus. Panelists include: Mary Ryan, Johns Hopkins University; Ellen Ross, Ramapo College; Tessie Liu, Northwestern University; Uta Poiger, University of Washington; Ashwini Tambe, University of Toronto

35 Years of Feminist Scholarship

9:00 am - 9:30 amOPENING REMARKS• Bonnie Thornton Dill, Chair, University of Maryland,

Women’s Studies• Deborah Rosenfelt, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies• Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto, Criminology

Searching for the Roots of 20th-Century Socialist Feminism: Claire Moses’ Work on 19th-Century French Feminists

9:30 am - 9:45 am - BREAK

9:45 am - 11:15 amHISTORIES OF FEMINIST MOVEMENTS• Sara Evans, University of Minnesota, History, moderator• Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University, History and Women’s Studies

Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor• Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University, History African American Feminism: The Past Debate• Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College, Political Science

and Women’s Studies, Two Decades of Transnational Feminisms: A Self-Critical Re!ection

• Rachel Blau Duplessis, Temple University, English, Reading from the poem “Draft 49: Turns”

11:15 am - 11:30 am - BREAK

11:30 am - 1:00 pmSEXUALITY, DESIRE, IDENTITY: TERRAINS OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE• Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, English, moderator• Judith Gardiner, University of Illinois at Chicago, English

and Gender and Women’s Studies, Female Masculinity• Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary, American Studies

and History, Talking/Knowing Sex: Women’s Interventions in the Terrain of Sexual Knowledge

• Sue Lanser, Brandeis University, English, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and Gender Studies, The Sexuality of History

• Matt Richardson, University of Texas, African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Putting Critical Race Theory and Trans Theory into Dialogue

1:00 pm - 2:20 pm - LUNCH • People who want to purchase lunch must pay in advance. Register online at www.feministstudies.org; specify if vegetarian or vegan.

2:20 pm - 4:00 pmTHEORY AND POLICY FOR A CHANGING WORLD• Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, moderator• Ruth Milkman, City University of New York, Sociology,

Women in the Immigrants Rights Movement• Marilyn Mobley, Case Western Reserve University,

Diversity and Equal Opportunity O!ce, Diversity and Inclusion: Implementing Policies for Campus Transformation

• Rayna Rapp, New York University, Anthropology, Chasing Science: Children’s Brains, Neuroscience, Special Ed, and the Work of Mothers

• Judith Stacey, New York University, Sociology and Social Cultural Analysis, Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

A conference honoring Claire G. Moses on her retirement as Editorial Director of Feminist Studies and Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland

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C O N F E R E N C E S C H E D U L E

Sponsored by Feminist Studies. Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Women’s Studies, the College of Arts and Humanities; the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, History, and Sociology; McKeldin Library;

the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity; and Curriculum Transformation Project

LOCATED IN THE SPECIAL EVENTS ROOM OF MCKELDIN LIBRARY, ROOM 6137, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC "FEE FOR BOX LUNCH#