BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6234-6ef56d7ee134e6ef1ba83e282b9df85a@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261006T095153Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T153000 SUMMARY:Women\'s Rights & The Post-Civil War World Conference DESCRIPTION:\nThe post-Civil War world witnessed an explosion of rights demands by a wide range of women&mdash\;more so than at any other point in U.S. history\, yet we have little history of this. \;Instead\, th e conventional story focuses on women&rsquo\;s suffrage as the main even t\, eclipsing the numerous other rights campaigns women launched. \; This workshop aims to foreground those other rights demands and spur new thinking about how we might narrate this complex expansion in women&rsq uo\;s claims upon dignity and equality. \;\n\nLunch will be provided . RSVP to \;RichardsCenter@psu.edu \;by \;Friday\, Sept. 13\ , 12:00 noon.\n\n*Please note: workshop attendees will be required to re ad participants&rsquo\; papers in advance of the workshop\; \;you wi ll receive access to the papers when you RSVP.\n\nProgram:\n\n9:30-10:00 a.m. \;\n\n Lori Ginzberg\, Professor of History and Women&rsquo\;s Studies\, Penn State\, \;Welcome and Opening Remarks\n\n10:00-12:00 noon\n\n Lori Ginzberg\, Professor of History and Women&rsquo\;s Studie s\, Penn State\, \;Session Chair\n Kimberly A. Reilly\, Associate Pr ofessor of Democracy and Justice Studies\, University of Wisconsin &ndas h\; Green Bay\, \;To Love\, Not Obey: Coverture in the Era of Contra ct\n Charlene J. Fletcher\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Indiana University &ndash\ ; Bloomington\, \;Home Ain'\;t Always Where the Heart Is: Women\, Confinement\, and Domestic Violence in the Gilded Age Bluegrass\n Tiffa ny Hale\, Assistant Professor of Religion\, Barnard College\, Columbia U niversity\, \;Friendlies: Native American Women During and After Rec onstruction\n\n12:00-1:30 p.m.\n\n Lunch \; - Boardroom II\, The Nit tany Lion Inn\n\n1:30-3:00 p.m.\n\n Cathleen Cahill\, Association Profes sor History\, Penn State\, \;Session Chair\n Lauren MacIvor Thompson \, Faculty Fellow\, Center for Law\, Heath\, and Society\, Georgia State University College of Law\, \;&ldquo\;Birth Control Lost Out Again& rdquo\;: Suffragists and the Early Birth Control Movement in the United States\n Felicity Turner\, Associate Professor of History\, Georgia Sout hern University\, \;To Own What She Knows: Property and the Gendered Language of Rights in the Nineteenth-Century US\n\n3:00-4:00 p.m.\n\n L isa Tetrault\, Associate Professor\, Carnegie Mellon University\, \; Wrap Up\n\nConference is free and open to the public. \;\n\nSponsore d by the \;George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. \; Co-s ponsored by the \;Department of African American Studies\, the \ ;Africana Research Center\, the \;Department of History\, the \; Department of Women'\;s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, and \; Penn State University Libraries.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la. psu.edu/event/womens_rights_the_post-civil_war_world_3312/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The post-Civil War world witnessed an explosion of rights demands by a wide range of wo men—more so than at any other point in U.S. history, yet we have l ittle history of this. Instead, the conventional story focuses on w omen’s suffrage as the main event, eclipsing the numerous other ri ghts campaigns women launched. This workshop aims to foreground tho se other rights demands and spur new thinking about how we might narrate this complex expansion in women’s claims upon dignity and equalit y.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP to RichardsCenter@psu.edu by Friday, S ept. 13, 12:00 noon.

*Please note: workshop attendees will be required to read participants’ papers in advance of the workshop;& nbsp;you will receive access to the papers when you RSVP.

Program:

9:30-10:00 a.m.

Lori Ginzberg, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Penn State, Welcome and O pening Remarks

10:00-12:00 noon

Lori Ginz berg, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Penn State,&nb sp;Session Chair
Kimberly A. Reilly, Associate Pr ofessor of Democracy and Justice Studies, University of Wisconsin &ndash ; Green Bay, To Love, Not Obey: Coverture in the Era of Contract
Charlene J. Fletcher, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana Univ ersity – Bloomington, Home Ain't Always Where the Hear t Is: Women, Confinement, and Domestic Violence in the Gilded Age Bluegr ass
Tiffany Hale, Assistant Professor of Religion, B arnard College, Columbia University, Friendlies: Native American Women During and After Reconstruction

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Lunch - Boardroom II, The Nittany Lion Inn

1:30-3:00 p.m.

Cathleen Cahill, Association Professor History, Penn State, Session Chair
Lauren MacIv or Thompson, Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Heath, and Society, Geo rgia State University College of Law, “Birth Control Lost Out Again”: Suffragists and the Early Birth Control Movement in th e United States
Felicity Turner, Associate Professor of History, Georgia Southern University, To Own What She Knows: Property and the Gendered Language of Rights in the Nineteenth-Century US

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Lisa Tetrault, Asso ciate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Wrap Up

Conference is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Co- sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, the Africana Research Center, the Department of History , the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studi es, and Penn State University Libraries.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/womens_rights_th e_post-civil_war_world_3312/