Texas Women/American Women:

New Historical Scholarship and Fresh Approaches

Schedule

Friday, February 27, 2009

6:30 p.m. TCU Brown-Lupton University Union

Dinner and keynote address:

Elizabeth Hayes Turner

“The Bride of Texas: Gender and the Selling of a Southern State”

Saturday, February 28, 2009

TCU Brown-Lupton University Union

8:30 Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 Welcome and opening remarks

9:15-10:30 Session I: Juliana Barr: Women’s history in the Spanish borderlands and Texas 

Respondent: Jean Stuntz 

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-noon Session II Laura Edwards: Women’s history in the South before 1880

Respondent: Angela Boswell

12:30 – 1:45 Session III and box lunch

Marjorie Spruill : Women’s history in the South and Texas since 1880

Respondent: Judith McArthur

1:45-2:15 Break

2:15-4:15 Work sessions to discuss possible topics and authors for “Texas Women: Lives and Times”

4:30 closing reception