Berkeley Conference Program


Friday, October 24, 2008

10:00-5:00 Board meeting 

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Papers and Presentations

8:30-9:30 Session 1a: Music and Art, Classroom A: Mary C. Wilson, chair
  Carol K. Baron, Rethinking Music History and Biography in Early Modern Germany: Interactions and Discrepancies between German Political Historiography and German Musicology
  Elliot D. Wise, “Sponsa Christi”: Poor Clares and Mystical Marriages in Robert Campin’s Betrothal of the Virgin 
8:30-9:30

Session 1b: Exploring Issues in Biography, Classroom B: Marilyn Färdig Whiteley, chair

  Catherine La Courreye Blecki, Philanthropy and Ambition: Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning (1605)
  Eike Reichardt, Karl August Lingner (1861-1916): International Mouthwash Magnate, Philanthropist and Innovator of the Textbook-Style Exhibit 
9:30-10:00 Break 
10:00-11:30 Session 2a: Cultures and Politics, Classroom A: Mary Ann Irwin, chair
  Moonjoo Kim, Edmund Burke’s Irish Letters
  Magid Shihade, Communal/Ethnic Conflict/Violence as a Modern Structure: Problems of Definition, and Theorizing, and an Alternative Approach
  Celeste Lipow MacLeod, What Fanny Saw: Mrs. Trollope’s infamous book on young America and its enduring relevance 
10:00-11:30 Session 2b: Discovering California History, sponsored by IHS, Classroom B: Katalin Kádar Lynn, chair
  Maria Sakovich, Deaconess Katharine Maurer: “Missionary among Immigrants” at San Francisco’s Angel Island Station
  Monica Clyde, German Pioneers in Gold Rush California
  Jeanne Farr McDonnell, Juana Briones of 19th Century California 
11:30-12:00 Break 
12:00-1:00 Keynote address by Stanley Chodorow 
1:00-2:30 Lunch break 
2:30-3:30 Session 3b: Rue Ziegler, Making Research a Business, Classroom B 
3:30-5:00 Session 4a: Bay Area History, Classroom A: Catherine La Courreye Blecki, chair
  Barbara Fisher, The Politics of Medicine and Benevolence Among Nineteenth Century Women in San Francisco
  Mary C. Wilson, LandMarks: The Forms of History
  Mary Ann Irwin, Making Sex Safe for the Married Man: Prostitution and the San Francisco Municipal Clinic, 1911 to 1913 
3:30-5:00 Session 4b: American HerStory Around the World, Classroom B: Tisa M. Anders, chair
  Tisa M. Anders, The Creation of Sugar Culture: Western Nebraskan Women as Example
  Marilyn Färdig Whiteley, “May God Forgive Us!”: Mission and Indian Rights in the work of Isabel Crawford
  Kathleen Sheldon, “No more cookies or cake now ‘C’est la guerre’”: An American Nurse in Turkey, 1919 to 1920
7:00 Dinner 

 

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Workshops

9:30-10:30 Session 6a: CV and grant-writing workshops with Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Judith Strupp Green, Classroom A 
10:30-11:00 Break 
11:00-1:00 Session 7a: Roundtable open discussion; participant-driven, Classroom A 
  Optional afternoon event: Wine tour departs GTU 10:45 

 




 

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