AHA Convention, Washington, DC
January 3 – 6, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008 – 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Omni, Diplomat Ballroom
Session 1, joint with the AHA and the Coordinating Council for Women in History.
Roundtable on Transnationalizing Histories of Women, Gender and Sexuality: The View from the Journals
Chair: Antoinette Burton, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics: The Global and the Intimate in the Women¹s Studies Quarterly, Victoria Rosner, Texas A& M Transnationalizing the Journal of Women¹s History, Jean M. Allman, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Gender and History: Transnationalism in Translation, Michele Mitchell, New York University
Feminist Studies and Transnational Networks, Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland at College Park
Forgiving Foucault: Transnationalizing the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State Univ.
****12:151:15 p.m. Omni, Chairman¹s Boardroom. CLGH Business Meeting**** 2:30-4:30 p.m. Omni, Forum Room.
Session 2, American Gay Power in a Queer Modern World
Chair: Karen C. Krahulik, Brown University
Papers: Gay Power; David Eisenbach, Columbia University
Imagining a Gay World: The American Homophile Movement in a Global Perspective; Craig Loftin, University of Southern California
Homo-Coming: Sexuality, Race, and Intimacy in the Japanese Writings of Yone Noguchi; Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University
Comment: Howard Chiang, Princeton University
*****6:00-7:30 p.m. Omni, Governor¹s Boardroom.CLGH and Radical History Review Joint Reception*****
Saturday, January 5 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Hilton, Monroe West
Session 3, joint with the AHA.
Before and after Kinsey: Sexual Science and Sexual Medicine in Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
Chair: Lynn Gorchov, Denison Univ.
Papers: Reading with Prok: Sources for Alfred Kinsey¹s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) Donna J. Drucker, Indiana Univ.
Sex, Medicine, and Doctor Kinsey: The American Medical Profession and Sexual ‘Behavior in the Human Female (1953); Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Univ. of California Santa Barbara
From Sick Desire to Normal Behavior: The Kinsey Reports, the Mental Health Profession, and the Contested Psychopathological Status of Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America; Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang, Princeton Univ.
Comment: David H. Serlin, Univ. of California San Diego
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 6
Session 4, joint with the AHA.
Sex, Surgery, and History: Perspectives on Intersex from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
Chair: Leah DeVun, Texas A & M
Papers: Medieval Hermaphrodites: Intersex in Medical, Legal, and Philosophical Discourse of the European Middle Ages, Irina Metzler, Univ. of Bristol
Intersexuality and ³Corrective² Surgery in the Early Modern Period; Kathleen Long, Cornell Univ.
History for the Future: A Personal Account of Using History to Change the Medical Treatment of Intersex; Alice D. Dreger, Northwestern Univ.
Comment: Anne Enke, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:30-4:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 6
Session 5, joint with the AHA.
The Politics of Sexual Scandals across Time and Space
Chair: Katherine B. Crawford, Vanderbilt Univ.
Papers: Darkness in New Light New England: Punishing Bestial Acts in the 1790s; Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham Univ. and Richard D. Brown, Univ. of Connecticut
The Legal Scandal of ‘Personal Status’ in French Algeria; Judith Surkis, Harvard Univ.
Gossip, Scandal, and the Sexual Solicitation of Boys in Colonial Mexico; Zeb Tortorici, Univ of California at Los Angeles
The Litmus Tests: The Role of Public Scandal and Race in Sexual Misconduct Cases in Colonial Ghana; Carina E. Ray, Fordham Univ.
Comment: Katherine Crawford
2:30-4:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 4
Session 6, Legal Liberation? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Twentieth-Century U.S. Equal Rights Campaigns
Chair: Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota
Papers: ‘Into the Law’: The Odell Waller Case and the Early Civil Rights Activism of Pauli Murray; Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Defending a Psychopathic Gay Alien: Genealogies of Legal Strategy in Boutilier v. the INS; Marc Stein, York University
Managing the Costs of Life: Feminism, Biopower, and the Debate over Pregnancy Disability, 197478; Deborah Dinner, Yale University
Comment: The Audience
****5:30-7:30 p.m. Omni, Congressional Room. CLGH Reception with Local History Presenters****
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Marriott, Maryland Suite C
Session 7, joint with the AHA.
Global (S)Exchange: National Ideals and Transnational History
Chair: Pete Sigal, Duke Univ.
Papers: The Feminized Coronela and the Invisibility of Transgender in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Gabriela Cano, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan
‘White Goddess’: Christine Jorgensen’s Racial Imaginary; Susan Stryker, Simon Fraser Univ.
Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran; Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard Univ.
Comment: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale Univ.
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Marriott, Hoover Room
Session 8, joint with the AHA. Sexuality and the Postwar Metropolis
Chair: Karen C. Krahulik, Brown
Papers: Glamorous Girls, Gambling Playboys, and Queers: The Search for Naughty Inspiration in America¹s Postwar Mecca, T. Vaughan Tremmel, Univ. of Chicago
Black Politics and the Campaign for Chicago¹s Gay Rights Ordinance, 1973-88; Timothy Stewart-Winter, Univ. of Chicago
Home, Church, and School: The Politics of ‘Straightness’ in Postwar Santa Clara County, Clayton Howard, University of Michigan
Comment: Karen C. Krahulik, Brown