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Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender

The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender provides a forum for scholars and students to meet periodically and discuss new research; sessions may consider any aspect of the history of women and gender without chronological limitations. A collaboration of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Massachusetts Historical Society, the seminar meets in turn at the facilities of the two sponsors.

Most seminar sessions revolve 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. After each session, the evening's host will serve a light buffet supper.

All are welcome to participate in the seminars at no charge; you should, however, subscribe to the series if you wish to receive advance copies of the papers that will be discussed. The modest subscription fee for the series also underwrites the suppers that accompany each program.

If you do not require an advance copy of a paper and wish to leave reservations only, you may phone 617-646-0568. Please give your name, the name of the seminar you would like to attend, and the number of guests

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2010-2011 Season

7 October 2010, 5:30 PM
Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University, and Grey Osterud
A Stake in the Land: Theorizing Gender and Land Ownership
Comment: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library

16 December 2010, 5:15 PM
Molly Geidel, Boston University
Breaking the Bonds? Domesticity, Decolonization, and the Peace Corps Girl in the 1960s
Comment: Alexander Bloom, Wheaton College

10 March 2011, 5:30 PM
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
The Hemings Family in the Nineteenth Century
Comment: Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Location: Schlesinger Library

21 April 2011, 5:15 PM
Dayo Gore, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Seminar topic to be announced
Comment: Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark




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