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(the Society for the History of Women in the Americas)

Wednesday 14^th March, Brunel University, London

All sessions (inc lunch and refreshments) are in GB239, Gaskell building

0845-0915 Registration

0915-0930 Welcome

0930-1045 Panel 1 Transnational encounters (Chair: Jay Kleinberg)

Madisson Brown - ‘A voice from across the Atlantic’: the double-standard, prostitution reform and feminism in the transatlantic women’s movement 1830-1850

Mica Nava - American Anthropologist Ruth Landes and Race Relations Research in Postwar Britain

Jocelynne A. Scutt - Women of the Americas and Women of the Antipodes: Cross-fertilisation in the Struggle for Equal Pay

1045-1100 Refreshment break

1100-1150 Panel 2 Women and migration to the Americas (Chair: Jocelynne Scutt)

Penelopi Alexandrou - Hyphenated Legacies: the case of the Greek Canadian women of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Suze Zijlstra - The attractions of a life overseas: female settlers in the Dutch seventeenth-century colony of Suriname

1150-1240 Panel 3 Women’s organisations: a comparison (Chair: Susanna Rabow-Edling)

Maria Elvira Alvarez -The feminist movement and the right to vote in Bolivia (1920-1952)

Robin Kigel - Women and the Machine: Exploring Personal, Professional and Political Gains of Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century America

1240-1310 Lunch

1310-1340 Discussion session

Matthew Hill from the Institute for the Study of the Americas - The ‘Women and US Foreign Policy Oral History Project’ and how your research interests can help to shape the material being collected

1340-1455 Panel 4 Challenging accepted norms and values: women in literature and theatre (Chair: Imaobong Umoren)

Kate Dossett - Un-American Women: Gender, Performance and the Dies Committee Hearings on the Federal Theatre Project

Helen Huff - ‘Nor need her lameness defeat her of success’: From the Recently Discovered Archives of the Twelfth Night Club, Inc., 1890-2012: The Scandalous Case of Marie Nevins (Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.)

Rachel Silvia -‘Landscape Features’, Exploring an Alternative World with Alice Walker

1455-1510 Refreshment break

1510-1600 Panel 5 Women, work and professional identity (Chair: Dawn-Marie Gibson)

Sonia Birocheau - Rising up to the challenge: Student Teachers Respond to Professional Norms in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago

Renée Blackburn - “Men’s Work”: The Temporary Women of the Quincy Mining Company Office

1600-1650 Panel 6 Gender in racialised contexts (Chair: Inge Dornan)

Dawn-Marie Gibson - Encountering the Nation of Islam in 1960s America

Althea Legal-Miller - “Not the kind of thing you usually hear”: Dorothy Height, the Civil Rights Movement, and Mobilisation against Jailhouse Sexualized Violence

1650-1730 Final session: Working for Pan-Am in second half of the C20th (Chair: Jay Kleinberg)

Janet Morgan will talk about her experiences as Pan-Am flight attendant from 1961 to 2003, with an opportunity for questions afterwards

1730-1800 Drinks