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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 |
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| 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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Appendices
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Abstract |
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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Abstract
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Bibliography |
Susan
Haskell Khan, History Department, University of California at Berkeley
"'Sisters under the Skin': American Protestant Women and the
'New Woman' of India" |
Abstract
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| Chair
& Commentator: Mary Renda, Departments of Gender Studies and History,
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA. |
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| Session
II: Mission |
Beth
Baron, Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Revival on the Nile: "Mama" Trasher and the Asyut
Orphanage" |
Abstract
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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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Abstract
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Bibliography |
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" |
Abstract
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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" |
Abstract
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| Chair
& Commentator: Maria Jaschok,
International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford |
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| 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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Abstract
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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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Abstract
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Bibliography |
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" |
Abstract
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| Chair
& Commentator: Daniel W. Howe, University
of Oxford, Emeritus |
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| 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" |
Abstract
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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" |
Abstract
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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" |
Abstract
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| Chair
& Commentator: Jay Sexton, History
Faculty, University of Oxford
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