Schedule of Events

Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow

Fifteenth Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
Friday and Saturday March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public

 FRIDAY MARCH 1, 2013

4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Registration
Heimbold Lobby

6:00 p.m.

Welcome: Rona Holub, Director, Women's History Graduate Program, Sarah Lawrence College

Keynote Address: Alice Kessler-Harris, R.Gordon Hoxie professor of American History at Columbia University and author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

Heimbold 202

8:00 p.m. 

Reception
Slonim Living Room 

SATURDAY MARCH 2, 2013

8:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.

Registration
Heimbold Lobby

8:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Breakfast Reception
Heimbold Lower Lobby

10:00 a.m.

 MOTHERHOOD AND THE BODY

Moderator: Tiffany-Latrice Williams, Sarah Lawrence College

 Jennifer Garvey, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 
Finding Wilhelmina Geipel: An Immigrant Midwife in Queens, 1884-1914

Maureen Thompson, Independent Scholar, Lansdale, PA
Seeing Red: Mother Bloor’s Crusade for Justice in Industrial America

EDUCATION AND ACTIVISM

Commenter: Kathryn Hearst, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Amy Schneidhorst, University of Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX
Feminist Pacifism And Gendered Nonviolence in The Age Of New Media 

Jessie Ramey, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
For the Public Good: Connecting Women’s History and Public Education Advocacy

Rachel F. Seidman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Who Needs Feminism? Feminist Pedagogy and Public Engagement in a Digital World

BATTLING FEMINISTS AND REDS: ANTI-FEMINISM AND ANTI-COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Moderator: James Tricht, Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY

Erica Ryan, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Interpreting Women's Activism in Red Scare America, 1919-1929

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School, NY, NY
Defining Family, Defining Nation: Gender and Patriotism in 1960s California

Stacie Taranto, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
Red Feminism? Debating "Family Values" in New York State, 1970-1980

 12:00 p.m. LUNCH

 1:00 - 2:45 p.m.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON AMY SWERDLOW

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, author of award winning biographies, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes One and Two

Carole Artigiani, Founder and Senior Advisor of Global Kids, Alumna, Women's History Graduate Program

Melanie Gustafson, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Vermont, Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Alumna Women's History Graduate Program at Sarah Lawrence College

Phyllis Vine, Award winning author and former faculty member at Sarah Lawrence college, including the Women's History Graduate Program 

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

TEXTILE ACTIVISM, SHOPPING, DRESS REFORM AND JUSTICE 

Moderator: Gayle Fischer, Salem State College, Salem, MA

Beth Robinson, University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Solidarity through Shopping: Depression­Era Activism for Worker Justice

Traci L. Gott, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Outerwear to Underwear: The Dress Reform Movement in the Nineteenth Century

TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN'S ACTIVISM

Moderator: Mallory Craig-Karim, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, PA
Women’s Efforts for Peace in the U.S. and Great Britain: The First 100 years, 1815-1915

Habiba Boumlik, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY
North African Female Peace Activists: A Window of Opportunity. The Case of Amira Yahyaoui

Katrina Brown, Sara Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Historiography of the Chinese Women’s Movement During the Early 20th Century

WOMAN POWER FOR PEACE: LINKAGES IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR AND ANTI-IMPERIALIST ACTIVISM DURING THE VIETNAM ERA

Commenter: Leandra Zarnow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Andrea Estepa, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
There from the Beginning: Women Strike for Peace, SDS, and the Launching of a National Antiwar Movement, 1961-1965

Leandra Zarnow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Bella Abzug, Peace Politics, and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

Sarah King, Binghamton University, SUNY Binghamton, NY
"Hanoi": Jane Fonda's Antiwar Activism to 1972

Jessica M. Frazier, Binghamton University, SUNY Binghamton, NY
U.S. Women of Color, the ‘Third World,’ and the Viet Nam War

4:45 - 6:15 p.m.

TAKING UP SPACE: EMPOWERMENT THROUGH COMMUNITY-BUILDING AND PEACEFUL PROTEST

Moderator: Maureen Lahey, Sarah Lawrence College

Nicole Elinoff, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Emily Vrotsos, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Samantha Daley, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL                                 

USES OF SPACE: WOMEN’S GLOBAL AND LOCAL RESISTANCE 

Commenter: Rona Holub, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Victoria McCall, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
From Stella Wright to Stellar Homes: Black Women's Activism and the Newark Tenant Movement 1969-1974

Catherine Newton, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Resistance Through Movement: South African Women Negotiate Space

Emma Staffaroni, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
"What Could You Do With a Dollar?”: Italian American Women’s Wage-Earning in Northeastern Pennsylvania 1929-1942

WOMEN AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM

Moderator: Robert Lelux, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Debbie Hicks, Independent Scholar, Mobile AL
Out South of the Salt Line: Lesbians in the Court of Public Opinion

Elizabeth Dastin, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY
The World Above the Water Line: From the 1960s to New York City’s A.I.R. Gallery

Naglaa Hassan, Fayoum University, Egypt
Women and Political Activism in Selected Novels by Julia Alvarez

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