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Roundtable: New Approaches to Transgender History/ies

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Berkshire Conference on the History of Women 2011Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Report by Ellen Zitani

During a Saturday afternoon session, attended by approximately 50 people, we held a roundtable discussion on the methods of doing transgender history. Organized by Shane Landrum, a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Brandeis University, the roundtable’s participants included Landrum; Brenda Marston, an archivist for Cornell University Library’s collection on the history of sexuality; Raymond Rea, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Minnesota State University (Moorhead); and Ellen Zitani, a Ph.D. candidate in European History from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Ellen also served as moderator/chair. Continue reading →

CLGBTH at the Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

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Berkshire Conference on the History of Women 2011Committee members participated in a nearly a dozen sessions on LGBTQ history at the 2011 Big Berks, held at the University of Massachusetts June 9-12. Those unable to attend can now read reports from a number of those sessions on our Conference Reports page. Sessions covered include “Queering the College Campus,” “Tomboys and the Heritage of Gender Nonconformity in the United States, 1850s-1960,” “Utility/Necessity: The Enduring Relevance of Lesbian Identities,” “Race, Sexuality, Gender and the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture,” and the “Lesbian Generations” roundtable.