The UC Multi-Campus Research Group in World History
presents a conference on
Gender in World Historical Studies
30 November – 2 December 2001
Hart Hall
University of California, Davis
Friday, November 30
Saturday, December 1
8:30
9
9:15-11:15
11:15-noon
noon-2
2-5
evening off-campus arrivals
coffee
welcome
Susan Mann (UCD) and Robert Moeller (UCI)
World History in the Classroom
Robert Moeller, Professor of History, UCI, Chair
“World History Goes to the Opera”
Robert Moeller
“Humanities Out There: Teaching World History in the High School
Classroom”
David Andrew Johnson, Graduate Program, Department of
History,UCI, and Humanities Out There, UCI
"Centering Gender in the World History Curriculum, 1500-1870"
Ulrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman, Department of History, UCI
Open discussion
Lunch
Plenary Panel: “Court Women and Palace Life”
Anne Walthall, Professor of History, UCI, Chair
"Banquets and Bureaucracy: Palace Entertainers in Song China"
Beverly Bossler, History, UCD
"Courtesans in Louis XIV's France"
Kathryn Norberg, History, UCLA
"The Phoenix and the Family: Power and Sexual Paradox in European Court
Culture"
Katherine Crawford, History, Vanderbilt University
"Gendered Harems and Ottoman Court Culture"
Leslie Peirce, History, UCB
"Female Mobility at the Qing Court"
Mark Elliott, History, UCSB
"Recruiting Women to Serve the Shogun"
Anne Walthall, History, UCI
"Gendered for Success: Eunuchs at the Byzantine Court"
Kathryn Ringrose, History, UCSD
"Problems in the Study of Heian Court Women"
Robert Borgen, History, UCD
5-6
7 p.m.
Open discussion
Dinner
continued over
Sunday, December 2
8:30
9-10:30
Coffee
Graduate Studies in a Global Age
Susan Mann, UCD, Chair
“Cultural Divides: The Gendered Spheres of Entertainment in Late NineteenthCentury Buenos Aires” by Kristen McCleary, History, UCLA
Discussant: Francesca Miller, Cross-Cultural Women’s History, UCD
“The Principle of Gender Equality vs. the Persistence of the Patriline: Surname
Legislation in China in the 1930s and 1940s” by Margaret Kuo, History, UCLA
Discussant: Rosamaria Tanghetti, Cross-Cultural Women’s History, UCD
10:30-11
coffee break
11- noon
"Gender, Intimacy, and Memory: Thoughts on the Writing of World
History"
Chair, Miriam Silverberg, History, UCLA
Prof. Silverberg will lead an open discussion about introducing gender
into world historical narratives, which she will introduce with her own
reflections on writing a world history textbook.