Comments on: Berkshire roundup: rodeo girls won’t you come out tonight?

By: Investigations of a Dog » An apology for Oxoniensis

Investigations of a Dog » An apology for Oxoniensis — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:10:11 +0000

[...] because it would prove me right. He’s going to have to leave it there so that everyone can see that he dislikes gender history just as much as Rusticus [...]

By: Respek : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Respek : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:26:45 +0000

[...] One of the disturbing issues raised in the li’l women’s history and Berkshire Conference hoedown we’ve been having around here lately is that of respek–or the lack of respek, more [...]

By: Airminded · The great stoush

Airminded · The great stoush — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:09:38 +0000

[...] across my feed reader include: Cliopatria (here, here and here), Tenured Radical (here and here), Historiann, Early Modern Notes, Investigations of a Dog, Europe Endless, and Progressive Historians. Mercurius [...]

By: So far to go… « Blurred Productions

So far to go… « Blurred Productions — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:34:25 +0000

[...] So far to go… Posted in History by Smith Michaels on June 17th, 2008 (Via Historiann) [...]

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:47:58 +0000

Rad, you should definitely put in an application for 2011–I can hook you up. Biography was hyooooge this weekend–there was a seminar, a workshop, and at least three or four panels or roundtables on women’s history and biography. Everyone I know–including the gal in the mirror–is writing a bio these days.

Go to the on-line version of the program, and do a keyword search on “biography,” “autobiography,” or “lives” and you’ll see what I mean.

By: Rad Readr

Rad Readr — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:43:47 +0000

Nice kicker, historiann!

I want to go to the Berks…I might have to do more research on Emilia Casanova and the Cuban exile women activists operating in the latter part of the 19th C.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:23:25 +0000

Hi Ortho–good advice about not fighting with pigs! One of them is over at Tenured Radical apparently trying to engage her about stuff over on my blog–maybe he just doesn’t understand how this blog thing works? I’m glad your grad student friend had a good time, and pleased (although very surprised!) that my book was on your comps list.

By: ortho stice

ortho stice — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:38:16 +0000

Hi Historiann! I’m glad the Berks was a smashing success.

One of my grad student colleagues just got back; she said the conference was awesome.

I can’t help but comment on Mercurius Rusticus’s observations. Rusticus(Cliopatria links the original post he subsequently deleted) claims he has not read any of the historians who presented at the Berks and that their texts will not show up on reading lists. He is a rube. Just for the record, Historiann’s book and the books of many other Berks presenters were on my Comps reading list.

Anyway, my cousin the pig farmer says, don’t get in the mud to fight with pigs. So, I shall comment no more on the men who continue to denigrate the vibrant fields of Women’s and Gender history.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:27:55 +0000

OK–I wondered if it wasn’t due to your immersion in the history of medicine and the body! Seriously, thanks for covering the history of childhood roundtable so thoroughly. I was so excited when that proposal came in, and am very pleased to hear that my confidence in it was justified.

By: Knitting Clio

Knitting Clio — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:23:34 +0000

Hi Historiann,

Thanks for mentioning my post and the rest of the round-up. I borrowed the “post-mortem” term from American Association for the History of Medicine. The planners have a “post-mortem” breakfast on the last day of the conference to go over what worked, what didn’t. Sounds a little macabre I’ll admit.