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THE NEWBERRY SEMINAR ON WOMEN AND GENDER |
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Francesca Morgan and Joan Johnson, both of the History Department, have
recently launched the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender in fall
2007. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of History
and the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois
University, and hosted by the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family
and Community History at the Newberry Library.
The seminar is intended to bring together scholars from a variety of
historical fields to share their original research on gender and women.
All presentations will be free and open to the public.
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a seminar will furnish to historians and other scholars a valuable
opportunity for discussion, feedback, and community feeling. The
considerable study areas of women's and gender history overlap
productively with so many additional areas, among them race, war,
religion, and sexuality (to name a few). Chicagoland has shown
considerable interest in women's and gender history, as evidenced by
the Chicago Area Women's History Council, the Jane Addams Hull-House
Museum, and the Frances Willard House and library. On these and
other grounds, we hope and expect that such a seminar would draw
interested publics in addition to scholars, and generate stimulating
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Please contact Francesca Morgan at f-morgan@neiu.edu or Joan Marie Johnson at joanmjohnson@comcast.net for further information.
A list of the Scholl Center's ongoing Newberry Seminars is available at www.newberry.org/scholl/schollhome.html#Seminars
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