Women's History Interest Group

The Women’s History Interest Group is an eclectic assortment of people who attend the Northern Great Plains History Conference who are interested in women’s history and issues facing women academics. The group has lunch annually at the conference and sponsors a number of sessions. In addition, it has recently instituted free membership. Anyone interested in the organization or in becoming a member should contact Claire Strom at Claire.strom@ndsu.edu.

The WHIG Luncheon at the 2007 NGPHC will be held on Thursday, October 4, at 12:45pm in the Lyric II Conference Room of the Holiday Inn. Only a few luncheon tickets will be availabe at the door, so please resgister in advance.

For the 2007 Conference WHIG is sponsoring the following panels:

8.  Panel: Women in the Profession

11:00am – 12:30 pm, Thursday October 4, 2007
 
Chair:  Claire Strom, North Dakota State University
 
Panelists:

• Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
• Nikki Berg Burin, Concordia College
• Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Barron County
• Kate Roberts, Minnesota Historical Society
• Claire Strom, North Dakota State University

20. Women’s History

9:00 am – 10:30 am, Friday October 5, 2007
 
Chair: April Brooks, South Dakota State University
 
Presenters:

• “Reintroducing the ‘Other’ in History” by Kathleen Brokke, North Dakota State University
• “Scottish Missionaries/Female Circumcision” by Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University
• “Two Grandmothers, and Rewriting Self and National History” by Joe Amato, Southwest Minnesota State University
• “’What appeared to be a Mystery’: Arson, Death and Memory on the North Dakota Frontier” by Michelle McClellan, University of Michigan and Tina Grant, Independent Scholar

Comment: April Brooks,  South Dakota State University

32. PANEL CHERCHEZ LA FEMME, Strategies for Researching Women's History

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Friday October 5, 2007
 
Chair: Anne Kaplan, Minnesota Historical Society
 
Panelists:

• John Bye, director, Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University
• Deborah Miller, reference specialist, Minnesota Historical Society
• Craig Wright, archivist, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library