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Women in the Archives Conference Program
Thursday, March 5
Sessions will be held in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
2:00-3:30 Keynote lecture: "Paraplex: Or, the Functions of Angels in the Archives"
Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M University
4:00-5:00 Panel discussion 1: Materialities of the Archive
6:00 WWP 20th Anniversary Celebration (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, Meeting Street)
Friday, March 6
Sessions will be held in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
9:00-10:30 Keynote lecture: "Silent Bodies: Archives, Race, Women and the Cultural Historian"
Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:00-12:00 Paper session 1
Zephorene Stickney and Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College: "A Grand Tour in 1862: Digitizing Documents and Parsing an Itinerary"
Noelle A. Baker, independent scholar, and Sandra H. Petrulionis, Penn State Altoona: "'I defy tomorrow': Mary Moody Emerson, Women’s Writing, and Revolutions in the Archive"
2:00-3:30 Paper session 2
Elizabeth Patton, Johns Hopkins University: "Three Texts By or About Women from English Catholic Recusant Families: Anne (Dacre) Howard, Countess of Arundel (1557-1630); Dorothy Arundell (1559/60-1613); and Ann Bellamy (fl. ca. 1580-1595)."
Juliette Paul, University of Missouri-Columbia: "Histories of Manuscripts: Jane Barker's Poems in the Archive"
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University: "Smugglers, Patronesses and Scribes: Archival Remnants of Disorder and Activism among Elizabethan Catholic Women"
4:00-5:30 Panel discussion 2: Editing the Archive
5:30 Reception
Saturday, March 7
Sessions will be held in Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
9:00-10:30 Paper session 3
Elizabeth Vincelette, Old Dominion University: "Independent Women: Recovery, Genre, and Identity in the Archive"
Kate Eichhorn, The New School: "Reading the Recipe Box: Archives, Memory and Embodied Knowledge"
Sandra Dedo, Notre Dame University: "Re-Zoning the Historical Memory: Susan Howe's Poetics of Marginalization and Marginalia"
11:00-12:30 Paper session 4
Sheila Cavanagh, Emory University: "Building a Collaborative Archive: 14 Years of the Emory Women Writers Resource Project"
Julia Flanders and John Melson, Brown University: "Close, Near, and Distant Reading"
Gina Luria Walker, The New School: "Mary Hays: Archives and Contexts"
2:00-3:00 Panel discussion 3: Pedagogy in the Archive
