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Conference Papers
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Opening Remarks: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Welcome to Oxford: Richard Carwardine
Keynote Speaker: Jane Hunter, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Introduced by Kathryn Kish Sklar
 
Friday, April 28, 2006
Session I: Women

Mary Kupiec Cayton, History Department, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
"Constructing a Benevolent Public: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement in New England, 1800-1840"

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Barbara Reeves-Ellington, History Department, Siena College, Loudonville, New York
"Transferring American Domesticity: Women, Mission, and Nation-Building in Ottoman Europe, 1832-1876"


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 Susan Haskell Khan, History Department, University of California at Berkeley
"'Sisters under the Skin': American Protestant Women and the 'New Woman' of India"

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Chair & Commentator: Mary Renda, Departments of Gender Studies and History, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA.

 
Session II: Mission
Beth Baron, Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Revival on the Nile: "Mama" Trasher and the Asyut Orphanage"

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 Rui Kohiyama, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan
"'Stiff Little Baptists' and Unfulfilled Purposes Overseas: Tokyo Woman's Christian College and the Decline of American Women's Foreign Mission Enterprise in 1910s and 20s"

 

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 Sue Gronewold, History Department, Kean University, Union, New Jersey
"New Life/New Faith/New Women: Competing Images of Modernity at Shanghai's Door of Hope"

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Wendy Urban-Mead, Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"An 'Unwomanly' Woman and Her Sons in Christ: Faith, Empire and Gender in Colonial Rhodesia, 1898-1906"

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Chair & Commentator: Maria Jaschok, International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford
 
Session III: Nation
R. Bryan Bademan, Department of History, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield Connecticut
"'Government is Religion': Frances Willard's Christianized Nationalism"

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Derek Chang, History Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
"Imperial Encounters at Home: Women, Empire, and the Home Mission Project in Late-Nineteenth Century America"

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Sylvia Jacobs, History Department, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina
"African-American Women Missionaries in Africa, 1880-1930: The Confluence of Race, Culture, Identity, and Nation"

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Chair & Commentator: Daniel W. Howe, University of Oxford, Emeritus
 
Saturday, April 29
Session IV: Empire
Ian Tyrell, Department of History, University of New South Wales
"Woman, Missions, and Empire: New Approaches to American Cultural Expansion"

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Betty Ann Bergland, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Wisconsin
"'A Correct Presentation of the Mission Fields': The Women's Missionary Federation and the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884-1934"

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Connie Shemo, Department of History, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
"The Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu: Liberation, Transformation and Empire in the Woman's Foreign Mission Society, 1873-1937"

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Chair & Commentator: Jay Sexton, History Faculty, University of Oxford

 
 

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