The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins this Thursday in Houston. Listed below are some sessions that we think may be of interest to members of the Committee on LGBT History. Have a look at the full program on the OAH’s website, and please let us know in the comments about any additional sessions that we might have missed.
History of Sexuality and Race
Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
Thursday, March 17, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Chair: George Chauncey, Yale University
“God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law”: Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University
Migration and a Stranger Intimacy
Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego
Desexualized, Raceless Workers: Morality, Labor Politics, and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Ileana Rodriguez-Silva, University of Washington
Commentator: Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota
Exploring Sexuality in Enslaved Communities
Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
Saturday, March 19, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Chair: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Sexuality and Manhood in the Antebellum Deep South Slave Community
Leslie Harris, Emory University
“Buck,” “Pussy,” “Angus,” and “Wench”: Naming, Sexuality, and Personality in the Slave South
Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin
A Man, His Mistress, and Her Cow: Race, Class, Gender,and Bestiality in the Slave South
Steven Deyle, University of Houston
Commentator: P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware
Public Education, “Family Values,” and the Roots of the Culture Wars, 1968–1980
Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
Saturday, March 19, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Chair: Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University
Broadcasting Family Values: Women, Conservative Talk Radio, and the Long Island Schools, 1976–1980
Stacie Taranto, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Gay Teachers: The 1978 Briggs Initiative and the Sexual Politics of Moderation
Clayton Howard, University of Michigan
Politicizing Sex Education: Teachers, Taxes, and Parental Authority in San Mateo, California, 1968
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School
Commentator: Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas
Rethinking the History of Sexuality in the Early Republic
Sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
Sunday, March 20, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Chair and Commentator: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan
Conflict, Corruption, and Care: Women’s Intimacies in Early American Prisons
Jennifer Manion, Connecticut College
Incest, Phrenology, and the History of Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
Brian Connolly, University of South Florida
Murder in the Nineteenth Century
Sunday, March 20, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Chair and Commentator: Susan Branson, Syracuse University
Loving Women, Killing Men: “Sapphic Slashers” and the Story-Paper Origins of American Lesbian Identity
Daniel A. Cohen, Case Western Reserve University
Why Did Serial Killings Proliferate in the United States and Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Randolph Roth, Ohio State University
Murder, Dime Novels, Imitation, and Memes: The Case of Jesse Pomeroy
Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University