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2013 Women’s History in the Digital World: Conference Program

Conference website: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/greenfield_conference/

The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education Bryn Mawr College March 22nd & 23rd 2013

http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/ Dear Participant, Welcome to the inaugural Women’s History in the Digital World Conference! Thank you for your attendance and support for the first conference coordinated by The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education. We are delighted to bring together an array of highly talented scholars, archivists, technologists, librarians, digital humanists, graduate students and those involved in the arts, heritage and cultural sectors to discuss their work on women's history in the realm of digital research and teaching. We are looking forward to many rich discussions of the new digital field and the challenges and opportunities that it presents for work in women’s history. We give thanks to our sponsors, The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation and the Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative for allowing us to bring you all together. In the spirit of open access and as a way to archive and preserve the events at the conference, especially for those who could not attend personally, we are using the Bepress digital repository software for our site and giving all presenters the opportunity to share their materials online. Please email us any materials you would like to share after the conference ([email protected]). We will be using social media to promote this conference and document our discussions. Our official conference hashtag is #WHDigWrld – please use it and follow us on Twitter @GreenfieldHWE. We’ll also be creating blog posts and a Tumblr after the event, so feel free to share all the exciting presentations and discussions at this conference through your preferred social media forum.

With all good wishes for a fantastic first conference,

Jennifer Redmond and Evan McGonagill Conference Organizing Team The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education

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The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education aims to foster scholarship, teaching and dialogue on the history of women’s education. It provides a digital portal that acts as a locus for inquiry and research and also hosts regular events to highlight historical and contemporary issues in women’s education. We welcome participation from a wide range of perspectives, particularly on our blog, ‘Educating Women’, which is regularly updated with news, events and comments on critical issues in the arena of women’s education. The Center employs new technologies to illuminate archival holdings, promotes excellence in scholarship, hosts teaching resources about women’s history from diverse communities, and provides a digital forum for debate, information sharing and collaboration for scholars across the world. For more information please contact us at [email protected] or telephone: 610526-7515 or follow on Twitter @GreenfieldHWE

Women’s History in the Digital World 2013

Conference Schedule

#WHDigWrld

Women’s History in the Digital World

Friday March 22nd 2013 – Wyndham Alumnae House 4.15pm-5.00pm: Registration and Information, Wyndham Alumnae House 5.00-5.30pm: Welcome by Jennifer Redmond, Director, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education 5.30pm – 6.30pm: Keynote Speech, Wyndham Alumnae House, Ely Room Laura Mandell, Feminist Critique vs. Feminist Production in Digital Humanities Chaired by Jennifer Redmond 6.30-7.30pm: Reception, Wyndham Alumnae House

Saturday March 23rd 2013 – Thomas Hall (M. Carey Thomas Library on map) 8.15-9.15am: Registration, Thomas Hall entrance (follow signs downstairs) Tea, Coffee and Snacks served in the Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall

Panel Strands A: Pedagogy: Digital Sources and Teaching in Women's History B: Developments in Digital Women's History C: Digital Archives and Practices D: Culture and Representation in the Digital World

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Panel Chairs & Presenters

Title of Paper

Panel Time Room Number

Chair: Nancy Rosoff, Arcadia University Kayo Denda Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Andrew Lissenden Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Intergenerational Oral Histories at Rutgers: Documenting the Past, Bridging Generations and Building Young Women’s New Media Capabilities

A1

9:15 10:30

B1

9:15 10:30

Thomas 110

Saskia Kusnecov Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Chair: Mary Kelley, University of Michigan Lynne Anderson University of Oregon and Patricia Keller University of Delaware

Bridget Baird Connecticut College and Cameron Blevins Stanford University Jennifer Berdan UCLA and Zoe Borovsky UCLA

Sampler Archive Project and the History of Women’s Education

Digital Diaries, Digital Tools: A Comparative Approach to Eighteenth-Century Women’s History

Thomas 224

Mapping the History of Women in Higher Education

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Title of Paper


Chair: Jennifer Redmond, Bryn Mawr College Stephanie Alarcon, Hacktory and Georgia Guthrie, Hacktory

Amy Ensley Wilson College

Tilly Vriend Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History, Chair: Evan McGonagill, Bryn Mawr College Kelsey Brannan Georgetown University Jade Davis The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hacking The Narrative: How a Philadelphia hackerspace uses storytelling to explore the gender gap in technology Making Connections: Incorporating College Archival Materials into a Women's History First Year Seminar

C1

9:15 10:30

Thomas 118

D1

9:15 10:30

Thomas 104

Writing European Feminisms': FRAGEN and Answers

Labor of Love: a documentary & web-based archive project about lesbian space in DC Facing Oppression

Break: 10:30-10.45am Tea, Coffee and Snacks, Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall

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Title of Paper

Chair: Amy Ensley, Wilson College Rae Chang Independent Scholar Lisa Levenstein University of North Carolina at Greensboro Melissa Mandell Drexel University College of Medicine Chair: Evan McGonagill, Bryn Mawr College Wendy E. Chmielewski Swarthmore College Jill Norgren John Jay College/City University of New York


AUTUMN GEM: The Story of Modern China’s First Feminist Interactive Textbook Teaching Women’s History Online: Feminist Challenges and Opportunities

A2

10:45- Thomas 12:00 118

B2

10:45Thomas 12:00 224

Digital History Toolkit: K-12 Students and Online Primary Sources

Digital History, Digital Sources, Digital Display: The Her Hat Was in the Ring Project on U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920

Kristen Gwinn-Becker Northwestern University Chair: Jennifer Redmond, Bryn Mawr College Joanna Di Pasquale Vassar College Jen Palmentiero Southeastern New York Library Resources Council

Using archives and metadata to uncover women's lives: challenges and opportunities for scholarship through archives and digital libraries

C2

10:45- Thomas 12:00 110

Laura Streett Vassar College

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Title of Paper


Chair: Ken Middleton Middle Tennessee State University Beverly Brannan Library of Congress

Mary Panzer Independent Scholar

Digital Debuts: Discovering Life Histories of Women Photographers in the Electronic Age

D2

10:45- Thomas 12:00 104

B3

12:05 - 1:20

Thomas 110

B4

12:05 - 1:20

Thomas 104

Ramona Javitz and the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library, Imagining the Digital Universe

Chair: Evan McGonagill, Bryn Mawr College

Erin Bush George Mason University Monica L. Mercado University of Chicago

Mia Ridge Open University Chair: Jen Rajchel, Assistant Director, Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Executions of Women in the United States On Equal Terms? The Stakes of Archiving Women's and LGBT History in the Digital Era New challenges in digital history: sharing women's history on Wikipedia

Liza Cowan Independent Scholar

DYKE, A Quarterly: Blogging an online annotated archive

Margo Hobbs Thompson Muhlenberg College

Applying Digital Research Tools to Feminist Art

Michelle Moravec Rosemont College

Asking Big Questions with Digital Tools

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Title of Paper

Chair: Jennifer Redmond, Bryn


Mawr College

Seokyung Han SUNY Binghamton Linda Hocking Litchfield Historical Society and Jessica Jenkins Litchfield Historical Society Karen M Mason University of Iowa and Jennifer L Wolfe University of Iowa

Women In Between Digitalized and Real Worlds The Ledger Database

C3

12:05 - 1:20

Thomas 224

D3

12:05 - 1:20

Thomas 118

If We Build it, Will They Come? Challenges and Opportunities in Digitizing the Iowa Women’s Archives

Chair: Eric Pumroy, Bryn Mawr College

Manman Huang University of Macau

Alla Myzelev University of Guelph

Jeri Wieringa George Mason University

New England Woman, Clothing and Chinese Export Silk in the Early American Republic Crafting Digital Materiality: Feminism and Contemporary Culture of Making Mining Hymns: Exploring Gendered Patterns in Religious Language

1.20 – 2.30 Lunch, Wyndham Alumnae House

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Title of Paper


Chair: Bethany Anderson University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Nancy Maveety Tulane University Susan Tucker Tulane University Jaelle Scheuerman Tulane University

Women's History in Archival Exhibits: A Plus for Academic Classes, a Threshold to Public History, or Problems of Scale Unaddressed

B5

2:30 3:45

Thomas 224

B6

2:30 3:45

Thomas 104

C4

2:30 3:45

Thomas 110

Candace Ross Tulane University Chair: Wendy E. Chmielewski Swarthmore College Nancy Rosoff Arcadia University Gina Luria Walker, The New School and Koren Whipp, The New School for Social Research Anna St.Onge York University

What's it all about, Alfie?: conducting research in a digital age Project Continua: Female Biography for the Digital World. ‘When appetite conquers rigueur’ : documenting the historical communication network of Lady Victoria Welby (1837-1912)

Chair: Jennifer Redmond, Bryn Mawr College Jennifer Redmond Bryn Mawr College Ken Middleton Middle Tennessee State University

The History of Women’s Education in the Digital Age: Exploring the Feminist Potential of the Digital Realm

Women’s Stories / Southern Places

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Chair: Marla Miller Historic Dress working group Arden Kirkland Vassar College Astrida Schaeffer New Hampshire Historic Dress Project Kiki Smith Smith College Chair: Evan McGonagill, Bryn Mawr College Bethany Anderson University Archives at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Ellen J. Staurowsky, Drexel University and Karen Weaver, Drexel University Jean C Whelan University of Pennsylvania Chair: Jennifer Redmond, Bryn Mawr College Janet M. Hurlbert Lycoming College Mary Sieminski Lycoming College

Title of Paper


Fashioning an Education: 150 Years of Vassar Students and What They Wore The New Hampshire Historic Dress project

D4

2:30 3:45

Thomas 118

B7

3:50 5:05

Thomas 110

Historic Dress

The Promise of Digital Archives?: Access Barriers to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History Capturing the Past, Delivering in the Present, Affecting the Future Digital Nurses: Digitizing the Quintessential Women’s Profession

In their own words: Teaching women’s history through digital primary sources in the Lycoming County Women’s History Collection

C5

3:50 5:05

Thomas 104

Amy Rogers Lycoming College 8|Page


5.10pm-6.00pm: Roundtable Discussion, Thomas 110 - participants include: • •

Cheryl Klimaszewski, Digital Collections Specialist, Bryn Mawr College Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D., Associate Editor/Assistant Director, The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University • Christine A. Woyshner, Ed.D., Professor of Elementary Education /K-12 Social Studies, Temple University • Moderated by: Jennifer Redmond, Ph.D., Director, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education, Bryn Mawr College. The roundtable participants will each outline their current projects and discuss the challenges and opportunities they have experienced in their work. The roundtable will also act as a forum to raise questions resulting from presentations at the conference.

6.00-7.30pm: Reception and viewing of ‘Taking Her Place’ exhibition. Rare Book Room Gallery, Canaday Library Celebrate the end of the conference with wine and refreshments while browsing the exhibition currently on display, ‘Taking Her Place’ curated by The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education. This exhibition explores themes in the history of women’s education, from struggles to be thought capable of learning at a higher level than literacy, to the political struggle for suffrage that many educated women took on, to some of the outstanding alums of Bryn Mawr College. For more on the exhibition see website of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/

With thanks for sponsorship from

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Taking Her Place Charting the story of women’s higher education through the archival collections of Bryn Mawr College

The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education