Silence or Screams? Archives of Race, Gender, & Sexuality
Organizers: Alexandra Rutherford & Courtney Thompson
PROGRAM
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Selected panel swill be recorded and available after the conference to all register participants.
The titles of panels on this page will link to the panels to attend.
Friday, December 10
9:00-9:30 am CT
Welcome and Opening Comments
Courtney Thompson
9:45–11:30 am CT
Odd Objects
Moderator: Courtney Thompson
Sarah Purcell, “A Relic of Robert E. Lee: Memory, Gender, and a Numinous Object”
Sophie Hess, “Curious Petrifications: Geological Souvenirs and Everyday Colonialism in 19th Century America”
Vicky Iglowski-Broad, “Bloody archives: an archival insight into the history of sanitary towels OR Sanitary Towels: A social survey”
Rachel Louise Moran, “Spitting on my Sources, or, a Depressing DNA Test”
12:00 – 1:30 pm CT
Words, Words, Words
Moderator: Cornelia Lambert
Sharrona Pearl, “Dr. James Barry and Dr. Emily Stowe: two Canadian medical firsts”
R.E. Fulton, “”Emma”: Who’s With Us in the Abortion Archive?”
Gözde Kılıç ““Physiology or Psychology? Overlapping Definitions of Love in Nazım Şakir’s Aşk-ı Marazî”
2:00-3:30 pm CT
Identity
Moderator: Alexandra Rutherford
Valerie Schutte, “Anne of Cleves and Family Identity in a Book of Poetry”
Anya Jabour, “Out of the Closet: Katharine Bement Davis’s Unpublished “Autobiographical Biography”
Kristin M. Franseen, “When the Historian is the Research Subject: Allan Bérubé’s Files on Edward Prime-Stevenson”
4:00-5:45 pm CT
Images
Moderator: Donna J. Drucker
Ruby Hann, “”Handsome features and finely formed limbs”: Contradictions and Admiration in British Physical Culture Literature”
Nicole Schroeder, “”She is an object of both charity and curiosity:” Disability, Gender, and Patent Medicine Advertisements in the Medical Marketplace, 1820-1870”
Vicki Daniel, “Erasure Through Visibility: Scapegoats in the Johnstown Flood Disaster of 1889”
Cindy Nguyen, “Gendering and Racialized Labor and Space in the Colonial Library in Vietnam”
Saturday, December 11
9:00 am-10:45 am CT
War and…Dance?
Moderator: Chris Levesque
Elliott Bowen, “”I Have No Idea How Serious He Is”: Patients, Families, and the Treatment of Mental Illness in the US Military, 1900-1914”
Aparna Nair, “Prosthetics, Art and the “Panzer Division” in a PoW Camp”
Bridget Keown, “”Thinking of Lois”: Considering fragmentary lives and loves in a First World War Diary”
Pratichi Priyambada, “Identity, Claims and Contestations: Reading a Dancer’s Petition in Nineteenth-Century India”
11:15 am – 12:45 pm CT
Violence
Moderator: Hannah Groch-Begley
Tara Nummedal, “Locating Spanish Fly: Desire, Violence, and Affect”
Elaine LaFay, “Vaginismus and Medically-Sanctioned Rape in the Nineteenth Century United States”
Joshua Mentanko, “Hart Crane’s Photos of Nude Children in Mexico: Evidence of culpability? If so, of what?”
1:15 – 2:45 pm CT
Activism and Community
Moderator: Kelly Therese Pollock
Sarah L. Swedberg, “Rural Coloradans Fight Back: Grand Junction’s Resistance to Amendment 2”
Omri Grinberg & Sarai Aharoni, “Connecting Archival Dots: Learning about Israel’s Gender Violence Against Palestinian Women Through an Archive That Wasn’t Meant to Be”
Sydney Rose Green, ““Undaunted by long hours and hard work”: Alpha Kappa Alpha and representations of Black women physicians in the 1970s”
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm CT
Law and Order
Moderator: Kelly O’Donnell
Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan, “Female Suicides in Nineteenth Century Madras: Subaltern resistance or subaltern refusal”
Laura R. Prieto & Marta Crilly, “Refused, No Papers: Boston’s Registers of Woman Voters, 1920”
4:30 pm CT
Closing Remarks
Alexandra Rutherford
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