PorterPor

Porter L. Fortune, Jr.

32nd Annual History Symposium

"Writing Women's History: A Tribute

to Anne Firor Scott"

March 19 and 20, 2008

E. F. Yerby Conference Center Auditorium

The University of Mississippi

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

8:00—Breakfast and Registration, Yerby Center

9:00—“Down from the Pedestal: The Influence of Anne Scott's Southern Ladies"

Speaker: Laura Edwards, Professor of History, Duke University

10:30—“Rape and the Civil War”

Speaker: Crystal Feimster, Assistant Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:00—Lunch

1:30—“FBI Eyes: The Scandal of Biography, the Ordeal of the Prodigal Daughter, and the Challenge of Writing about Southern Women on the Left”

Speaker: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Spruill Professor of History and Director, Southern Oral History Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:00—“Black Women in White in South Carolina During the Jim Crow Era”

Speaker: Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor
of African American Studies and History, Northwestern University

5:30—Dinner

7:00—‘“A Quilt Unlike Any Other’: Rediscovering the work of Harriett Powers”

Speaker: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University

THURSDAY 20

8:00—Breakfast with graduate studies in history and southern studies, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Barnard Observatory

9:00— “The Million Mom March: The Perils of a Colorblind
Maternalism”

Speaker: Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History, The State University of New Jersey. New Brunswick

10:30—“‘Our aim is good, the mind’s best good’: Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Shaping in America’ s Republic”

Speaker: Mary Kelley, Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

12:00—Lunch

1:30—“Storm Stories, 1957”

Speaker: Suzanne Lebsock, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

3:00—“From Jim Crow to Jane Crow: How Pauli Murray and Anne Scott Found One Another”

Speaker: Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward
Professor of History, Yale University

5:30---Dinner

7:00--“A Response and Retrospective”

Speaker: Anne Firor Scott, W.K. Boyd Professor Emerita of
History, Duke University

For additional information, click

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/history/Events.htm

or contact Elizabeth Payne <epayne@olemiss.edu>.

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