2007
23 Oct. Invited speaker, St. Mary’s College of Moraga. “Who’s Afraid of Women in Politics? and Why?”
5 Oct. Invited speaker. Conference on “Gender History in a Transnational Perspective,” honoring Gisela Bock. Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
10 Sept. Invited panelist, Round Table on comparative European women’s history, Instituto de Ciencias Socials, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Topic: “Who’s Afraid of Women in Politics? and Why?”
6 Sept. Invited speaker. International conference on “Women’s Participation in Democracies,” Instituto Internacional, Casa de Mateus, Vila Real, Portugal.
8-12 Aug. Plenary/Keynote speaker and panelist, Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Sofia, Bulgaria. Topic: “Parallels and Intersections: IFRWH in Comparative Context.”
2006
17 Nov. Invited speaker. Colloquium on “Gender, Religion and Politics: the European Networks of Josephine Butler,” Women’s Library, London, England.
10 Nov. Invited presentation, seminar on “Genre, féminismes, et mobilisations collectives,” École des Hautes Études en Science Sociale, Paris, France.
18 Oct. Invited keynote speaker. Conference commorating “Spanish Women’s Suffrage 75th Anniversary: From Women’s Rights to Vote to Equality,” Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer, Seville, Spain.
24-28 July: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Cursos de Verano, at San Lorenze de El Escorial, Spain. Plenary invited speaker “The Adventure of Women’s Suffrage Around the World, 1789-2000” in week-long course on “Clara Campoamor y el voto femenino.”
26-27 May: UCLA, chaired session at Ellen DuBois’s conference on transnational women’s movements.
3-5 May: Presidential Session honoring my scholarship, Western Association of Women Historians, annual conference, Asilomar, California. Also chaired a session with papers on French women’s history.
20-22 April: University of Illinois, Champaign, Society for French Historical Studies. Paper: “Before Beauvoir, Before Butler: “Genre” and “Gender” in France and the Anglo-American World.”
8-9 March: Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited participant in workshop on “The History of Human Rights”
3 March: University of Idaho, Moscow. Informal presentation on my scholarship at the Women’s Center.
25 January: University of Arizona, Tucson. Presented paper “Intrepid Crusader: Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix Takes On the Prostitution Issue.”
2005
28 October: Paper presented at Western Society for French History, Colorado Springs. “Intrepid Crusaders: Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix Takes On the Prostitution Issue.”
4 October: Invited speaker, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania “Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms” (slide lecture); also taught a class.
12-14 August: Plenary speaker, 8th Nordic Women’s and Gender History Conference, Turku, Finland
25-30 July: Invited paper, International Congress on Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Berlin
23 July: Invited speaker, University of York, Jane Rendall’s retirement celebration
8-9 July: Paper, “Adventures in Gender, Memory, and De-Canonization: Conceptualizing Exhibits for the International Museum of Women,” conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, “Women’s History Revisited,” International Congress on the Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia
8-9 July: Comment, session, “Rewriting the History of Central & East European Feminism,” [papers by Francisca De Haan, Krassimira Daskalova, Natalia Novikova, & Anne Loutfi], conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, “Women’s History Revisited,” International Congress on the Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia
16-17 June: Invited paper: Conference on History for the 21st Century, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2-5 June: Chair, session on Indian feminist history, 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, Calif.
23 May: Invited Keynote speaker, Conference: “Women in a Changing World: The International Women’s Movement, 19th – 20th Centuries,” Centre d’Archives pour l’Histoire des Femmes (CARHIF), Brussels, Belgium.
20 May: Invited Lecture, “Eruptions and Flows,” Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
2 April: Plenary Speaker, “The [Unfinished] Knowledge Revolution in the West,” IRWG Scholars’ Conference, “The Knowledge Revolution: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, The Humanities Center, Stanford University.
22 March: Women’s History presentation to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco.
18 March: Paper presented at the Society for French Historical Studies conference, Stanford University. “France’s Foremost Feminist; or Who in the World is Madame Avril de Sainte-Croix?”
2004
10 December: Presentation at Woodside Library Authors’ Night
27 October: Invited slide-lecture on the French woman’s suffrage issue, Wellesley College; also taught a class based on an assortment of French feminist texts from the 1890s.
6 October: Presentation on the Creative process in writing history, Chap. QD, P.E.O., Palo Alto.
9-11 July: Invited Keynote Address: “Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms,” conference on Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung, Berlin.
18 June: Organized and presented remarks (in French), Panel on women’s history, Society for French Historical Studies, 50th anniversary conference, Paris, France.
22-24 April: Women in French conference, Scripps College, Claremont, California. Chaired two sessions.
13 March: Speaker, Panel on International Feminisms, Huntington Library, San Marino, California
3 March: Informal presentation on the International Museum of Women, at evening on “non-profit sector,” Palo Alto chapter, Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae, Palo Alto.
2003
30 Oct.-1 Nov.: Speaker, Roundtable on “French Feminism and the Universal/Difference Dilemma,” Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, Calif. Commentator: session on “Dangerous Women (1871-1914).”
9 April: Organized and chaired a program, “Women of the World in the Bay Area: Immigrant Struggles and Challenges,” for the International Museum of Women, The Presidio Officers’ Club, San Francisco.
Oct. 2002 through Feb. 2003: helped organize and attended four exhibition content development two-day workshops for the International Museum of Women core exhibit, in San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, and Washington, D. C. Worked with exhibition content developer, Janet Kamien, from Massachusetts.
2002
5 October: Invited speaker (on the early history and accomplishments of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History),one-day conference of Mnemosyne, the French Women’s History National Association, Paris, France
18-22 September: Paper, “La Maternité: obstacle à l’utopie?”, at the 3rd French National Feminist Studies Conference, University of Toulouse, France
2 September: Invited Plenary Lecture, honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Gosteli Foundation, Archive for Women’s History, University of Bern, Switzerland
6-9 June: Session Chair, “The History of Women/Gender in the Balkans in the Modern Period – A Comparative Perspective,” 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, Storrs
3 June: Invited speaker, San Francisco Towers, San Francisco
7 May: Invited speaker, Mary Baker Eddy Exhibition kickoff event, Tresidder Memorial Union, Stanford University
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