The Gender and History Series

The History department inaugurated the Gender & History Visiting Scholars program in 1998, with generous funding from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The purpose of the series is to bring to campus prominent and emerging scholars who work on gender with an historical framework. All historical periods and geographical areas come within the purview of the series. The visiting scholar is not necessarily based in a history department-she or he might be a sociologist, political economist, or art historian, for example. The formal and informal events in each visit draw faculty and students from nearby campuses and from a wide array of disciplines at UConn.

Each visit lasts about two days, and entails a morning seminar revolving around an essay that everyone reads in advance and an afternoon public lecture which might draw on the scholar's newest research or offer a broad overview of how questions about gender and history have shaped recent scholarship in the visitor's area of expertise. The visitor also meets with small groups over meals and with individual students and faculty who have similar research interests.

Since its inception, our intellectual community has been fortunate to be enriched by visits from these scholars:

Visiting Scholars in Gender and History, 2007-8 Academic Year

24 September 2007

Kathleen M. Brown

Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

"Body Work in the Antebellum United States"

10:00am - 11:30am Seminar, Wood Hall basement lounge.

Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.

"Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in the Early Modern Atlantic"

4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.

29 October 2007

Megan Vaughan

Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, King's College, University of Cambridge

"Suicide notes: towards a history of suicide in Nyasaland"

10:00am - 11:30am Seminar, Wood Hall basement lounge.

Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.

"The History of Romantic Love in Africa"

4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.

Click here to download the electronic flyer.

11 February 2008

Lyndal Roper

Professor of Early Modern History, Balliol College, University of Oxford

"The Fat Reformer: Martin Luther and his Biographers"

10:00am - 11:30am Seminar, Wood Hall basement lounge.

Hard copies are available in Wood Hall's water cooler room.

"Luther and the Household"

4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

A reception and dinner to follow the lecture. Email Cornelia Dayton to reserve a spot for dinner at a local restaurant.

Click here to download the electronic flyer.