UC World History Workshop

Winter, 2006 Meeting: Gender in/and World History

Irvine, CA Feb 18-19, 2006

 

Tentative Program:

Friday, February 17: informal evening meal/gathering for early arrivals. Time and place to be announced.

 

Saturday, February 18

8:30 Van leaves from Wyndham Hotel for those staying there.
9:00 Sign in; coffee and light breakfast

Room 110 Humanities Instructional Building
9:30 Gender, Migration and Labor
Jose Moya (UCLA): "The Feminization of Domestic Service: A Historical and Global Perspective"
Sophia Martos (UCLA): “More Than the Male Bachelor: Gender and Family in Syrian and Lebanese Migration Patterns to Argentina”

Stephanie Moore (UCSD): “Gender and Japanese Immigrants to Peru, 1899 through World War II”

Discussant: TBA

 

11:30 Keynote:

Merry Wiesner Hanks (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee): “Gender in World History: Rousing Successes, Good Starts, Puzzling Holes”

 
12:45 Lunch

 

2:00 Pedagogy  -- Teaching a Gendered World History

Lisa Vollendorf ( CSU Long Beach): “Historicizing Gender and Social Justice in the Classroom"

Robert Moeller (UCI): “Can Old Eurocentric Dogs Learn New World History Tricks? Or: Thoughts on How to Let the Empire Strike Back”
Nicole Gilbertson (UCI): “Historical Thinking in the K-12 Classroom”

4:00 Snack

 

4:15 Transnational Circulation of Gendered Ideas

Miriam Riggs(UCSD): “Gabriela, Gender, Race, and Tourism in Salvador, Brazil”

Alessa Johns (UC Davis): “Women’s Publishing in Anglo-German Exchange”
Discussant: TBA


Dinner 5:45

7:00 Van back to the hotel




Sunday, Feb. 19


8:30 Van leaves from Wyndham Hotel for those staying there.
9:00 Sign in; coffee and light breakfast

Room 135 Humanities Instructional Building (note change of room from yesterday)

9:30 Gender Frontiers
Heidi Keller-Lapp (UCSD): “Floating Cloisters and Femmes Fortes: Ursuline Nuns in the French Empire”
Owen Jones (UCR): “Gender in Colonial Meso-American Societies: the Maya of the Yucatan and the K’iche’ of Guatemala”
Chau Johnsen Kelly (UCD): “Child Health and Nutrition in Tanganyika during the Twining Years”
Urmi Engineer (UCSC): “The Birth of Modern Gynecology in the Deep South, 1840-1880”
Discussant: TBA

12:00 Business meeting

1:00 End

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