Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest

YOU ARE INVITED...to the 4th Biennial WGHOM conference, 17-19 June 2010, in Dubuque, Iowa.

Call for Papers:

Cross Currents in Women's & Gender History

Announcing our keynote speaker:  Dr. Pat Cohen, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York and co-author of The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. The title of her WGHOM keynote address is "An 1850's Challenge to Traditional Marriage:  Mary Gove Nichols and the American 'Free Love' Movement."

The fourth biennial conference of Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest (WGHOM) will be held on June 17, 18 and 19, 2010, at the Town Clock Center for Professional Development of Northeast Iowa Community College in Dubuque, Iowa.  The opening reception will be held at the beautiful National Mississippi River Museum.

This conference will bring together scholars, educators, students and the public to explore current issues in women's and gender history as we showcase the academic work of Midwestern and other scholars who focus on women or gender.  Honoring our conference location in the historic river community of Dubuque, Iowa, our 2010 theme highlights the convergence of scholarship and contemporary pedagogy in all areas of women's history and related disciplines. 

In keeping with this theme we encourage not only the presentation of research by academics, graduate students and undergraduates, but also papers, roundtables, and panels from teaching faculty, librarians, archivists, high school teachers, and public historians in all areas of women's history, gender history, and related fields. 

• The deadline for submission of proposals, consisting of an abstract (500 words or less) and one-page c.v., is February 15, 2010.  Send proposals to the program committee in care of Kristin Anderson-Bricker (kristin.andersonbricker@loras.edu).