Mission
In
the Spring of 2000 graduate students from across the UIUC campus
convened to discuss their research in Women's and Gender History.
Graduate students and faculty in the Department of History founded
the Symposium as both a celebration of Women's History Month and
a forum to showcase graduate student work on gender and women's
history at the University. Since then, the Symposium has continued
to promote both the need to study women's lives and the value of
gender as a category of analysis. Moreover, the organizing process
and the annual meetings have been crucial sites for reflection
on and critique of the academy, the discipline of history, and the
field of women's and gender history. These conversations have been
particularly vital around questions of ethnicity, race, sexuality,
class, and community and the types of boundaries operationalized
by these categories to structure power and shape history. The Symposium's
organizers continue to work to widen the disciplinary, geographic,
theoretical, and professional scope of the conference, attracting
diverse participants from the UIUC community and around the world.
At this, its eighth annual meeting, the Symposium has become a
respected venue for the discussion of women and gender in historical
perspective.
2008 Symposium Sponsors
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Double Platinum Level
Department of History
Center for Advanced Study
Beckman Institute
Gender and History
Journal of Women's History
Catherine C. & Bruce A. Bastian Endowment
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Platinum Level
Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
Department of Architecture
Gender and Women's Studies
Graduate Employees Organization (GEO)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources
Office of Women's Programs
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Gold Level
Asian-American Studies Center
Center for Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
College of Business
College of Fine & Applied Arts
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Department of Lanscape Architecture
Department of Psychology
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Office of the Provost
Vice-President for Academic Affairs
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Silver Level
Afro American Studies and Research Program
Center for African Studies
Curriculum and Instruction
Department of Classics
Department of Dance
Department of English
Department of Sociology
Department of Speech Communication
Human and Community Development
Latina/Latino Studies
Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security
Russian East European and Eurasian Center
School of Social Work
Women and Gender in a Global Perspective
Bronze Level
Center for Writing Studies
Department of Political Science
Department of French |
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