Coordinating Council for Women in History Events/Sessions

Friday, January 2
5:30- 7:30 Board Meeting, CCWH, Hilton Harlem Suite

Saturday, January 3
9:30-11:30 a.m. joint session with the AHA Professional Division and the AHA Committee for Graduate Students. Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century, Hilton New York, Trianon Ballroom

2:30-4:30 p.m., open forum, joint with AHA Professional Division, AHA Committee on Minority Historians, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, Taskforce on Disabilities: Discrimination/Harassment On the Job, Hilton Gramercy Suite B
Chair: David Weber, Vice President, Professional Division, Southern Methodist University
CLGH: Karen Krahulik, Brown University
CCWH: Kathleen Berkeley, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Taskforce on Disabilities: Catherine Kudlick, University of California, Davis
CMH: Muriel McClendon, University of California, Los Angeles
PD: Leisa Meyer, College of William and Mary

5:30-7:30 p.m. CCWH Reception, Hilton Madison Suite

Sunday, January 4
11:30- 1:30, roundtable, joint with the AHA, Forty Years in the Academy: The Coordinating Council for Women in History, Women Historians, and Women's History, Sheraton Empire Ballroom East
Chair: Hal Langfur, University at Buffalo
Participants: Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara
Kathleen C. Berkeley, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Renate Bridenthal, Graduate Center, CUNY
Janet Afary, Purdue University
Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, CUNY

12:15-1:45 p.m. CCWH Luncheon, Hilton Mercury Rotunda
Presiding: Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and co-president, CCWH
Kathleen Berkeley, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and co-president, CCWH
Address: "Women, History, and the History of Women in History" Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History, Columbia University
Award Presentations:
CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship
Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship
Catherine Prelinger Scholarship (for a non-traditional historian)
Tickets ($35) should be purchased from Jennifer Scanlon, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College, 7100 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 no later than December 24, 2007. Make checks payable to CCWH. A small number of tickets will be available on site.

2:30- 4:30 roundtable, joint with the AHA, Critical Feminist Biography: Writing Race, Writing Gender, (Re)Writing Women of Color , Hilton Regent Parlor
Chair and Comment: Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois
Participants: Tiya A. Miles, University of Michigan
Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University
Sherie M. Randolph, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
Stephen Ward, University of Michigan

Monday, January 5
8:30- 10:30 a.m., roundtable, joint with the AHA, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower- A Roundtable on the Book , Hilton Trianon Ballroom
Chair: Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University
Participants: Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
Mia Bay, Rutgers University
Sharon Harley, University of Maryland College Park
Ula Y. Taylor, University of California Berkeley

8:30-10:30 a.m. roundtable, Women Historians in New York City: Reflections on Two Generations, Hilton Concourse H
Chair: Ellen Chesler, Hunter College
Participants: Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY Old Westbury
Carol Berkin, Baruch College
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of Michigan
Julie Des Jardins, Baruch College
Cindy Lobel, Lehman College
Jung Pak, Hunter College

11:00- 1:00, Corporeal Colonialism: Colonized Women’s Bodies, Sexuality, and Disease in Spanish America, Japanese Korea, and French West Africa, Hilton Clinton Suite
Chair: Jeanne Penvenne
Presenters: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of Chicago: ‘Miss Eurafricain’: Sex, Race and Citizenship in Colonial Francophone Africa, 1945-1960
Catherine Komisaruk, University of Iowa: Ana Villalonga’s Lawsuit: Slave Women and Sexual Violence in the Spanish American Courts
Jin-kyng Park, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Gynecology, Early Marriage, and Racial Disease in Japanese Colonial Korea, 1926-1932
Commentator: Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois

11:00- 1:00, joint with the AHA, Third Wave Precedents: Race and Sexuality in the Second Wave, Hilton Madison Suite
Chair: Tiffany Gill, University of Texas at Austin
Participants: Julie Gallagher, Penn State Brandywine: African American Women and Feminism in the 1960s
Stephanie Gilmore, Dickinson University: Forging a Familiar Path: Sex, Sexuality, and Feminist Identity in a Second Wave Organization
Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College: Gurley Girl Feminism: Helen Gurley Brown and the Invention of the Sexy Single Feminist
Commentator: William Chafe, Duke University