Sixth Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference
Sixth Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference

Sixth Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference

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The sixth conference of the Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest organisation met in Iowa City on June 11-12, 2015.

The first panel which I attended, led by Kristin Anderson-Bricker (Loras College), was “Female Academics as Institutional Reformers: Professional Women Engaged in Social Reform Today, A Round Table Dialogue.”

The next session, led by Tyler Priest (University of Iowa), was a roundtable talk entitled “Discussion on Crisis at the State Historical Society of Iowa.”

The morning’s panels then concluded with lunch and a keynote presentation from Prof. Nancy Beck Young (University of Houston), who spoke on the philanthropy of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover.

Day 2 began early on Friday morning. The first session centered on work arising out of the holdings of the Iowa Women’s Archives here at the University of Iowa.

 

The next set of panels included presentations by myself and by my colleague at the University of Iowa, Allison Wells, who spoke on “The American Guardian Association: Race Gender Democracy and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines.”

The last panel which I attended featured presentations over video conference by Lori Record, Kim Baldwin, Leslie Hauk, and Michelle Jones. These four women are inmates of the Indiana Women’s Prison, who study the history of that institution and of female incarceration in the nineteenth century United States.

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