University of California, Santa Barbara
Women and Conflict: Historical Perspectives
Graduate Student Conference
October 10-12 2003

On the weekend of October 10-12, the University of California at Santa Barbara will host a graduate student conference exploring the issues surrounding women and conflict. The conference is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB; the College of Letters and Science; Eileen Boris, Hull Chair in Women’s Studies; UCSB Libraries; History Associates; the Journal of Women’s History; the History Department; the Religious Studies Department; the Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program; the Center for Cold War Studies; the Medieval Studies Program; and the History Department Colloquium Committee.

“Women and Conflict: Historical Perspectives” is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, inviting paper proposals in women or gender studies that address the conference theme from a historical perspective. Studies of conflict include but are not limited to domestic, political, social, cultural, trans-regional, and ideological themes. This conference aims to bring together graduate students and faculty who are thinking about women’s and gender history from trans-regional and comparative perspectives. Graduate Students from all over the United States, Australia, and Europe have responded to the call for papers for what promises to be an intellectually stimulating conference.

Keynote Speaker:

The Conference keynote speaker is Dr. Angela Woollacott, UCSB Alumna and Professor of Women’s History at Case Western Reserve University. As a renowned scholar in the field of women’s history, Dr. Woollacott promises to address the theme of the conference from a broad frame of reference. Her publications include ground breaking work on women, war, and empire: Gendering War Talk, edited with Miriam Cooke, (1993); On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994); Feminism and Internationalism edited with Mrinalini Sinha and Donna Guy (1999); and most recently, To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (2001).