<html>
Hello, dear colleagues, <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Thought
you would want to know about this talk in U.S. women's history on March
16, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>-
Elizabeth <br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:39:15
-0500<br>
To: (Recipient list suppressed)<br>
From: Margo Collett <mcollett@MIT.EDU><br>
Subject: [History] Sahin Lecture March 16, 2005<br>
<br>
<div align="center">
Sahin Lecture Series<br>
<br>
<i>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
<br>
</i><b>Stephanie Camp<br>
<br>
</b>Associate Professor of History, University of Washington<br>
<br>
<b>"Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women's <br>
Movement in Peace and War"<br>
<br>
</b></div>
<br>
Drawing on her new book, <b><i>Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women's
Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South</i></b>, published by the
University of North Carolina Press as part of its Gender and American
Culture series, Stephanie Camp will discuss the centrality of space to
the perpetual conflicts that existed between enslaved people and
slaveholders in the American South. While slaveholders attempted to
create a "geography of containment" to confine and control the
enslaved, bondpeople responded with a "rival geography,"
alternative ways of knowing and using southern space. As is often
the case, spatial issues had a gendered dimension, with enslaved women
experiencing both confinement and mobility differently from enslaved men.
The experiences of both men and women were profoundly altered by the
changes of the Civil War, and their wartime actions came to have
unexpected, and revolutionary, consequences.<br>
<br>
<b> <br>
<br>
<div align="center">
Wednesday, March 16, 2005<br>
<br>
Building E51 Room 275<br>
<br>
(Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA)<br>
<br>
4:30 to 6:00 pm<br>
<br>
</b>For more information, you may contact Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>.This lecture
series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty<br>
</div>
_______________________________________________<br>
History mailing list<br>
History@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/history" eudora="autourl">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/history</a></blockquote><br>
<br>
<br>
------------------------------------------------------<br>
Elizabeth A. Wood, Director<br>
M.I.T. Program in Women's Studies<br>
Bldg. 14E-316<br>
M.I.T.<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 253-8844<br>
----------------------------------------------------- </html>