of colonization on women
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale will present its third annual fall symposium, "Women and Colonization: The North American and Australian Frontiers Compared," on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19 and 20.
According to the organizers, the symposium will explore the impact of colonialism on women -- particularly in light of the changing definitions of colonization as progress and of indigenous peoples as passive victims -- by comparing two different colonial frontiers. Participants will discuss both historical cases and contemporary examples.
The program will begin with a keynote presentation by Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University in Canberra, on Friday at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High St. McGrath is the author of "'Born in the Cattle': Aborigines in Cattle Country" and the editor of "Contested Ground: A History of Australian Aborigines under the British Crown." She has served as an expert witness and written numerous policy reports for the Human Rights Commission of Australia. She is currently finishing a comparative study of cross-cultural marriage on the frontiers of Australia and North America.
Following this keynote address, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host a reception at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.
The symposium resumes on Saturday at 10 a.m. in Rm. 101 of LC with a panel of scholars who will respond to the keynote address and broaden the discussion. The panelists include Yale professor Amy Chua, author of "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability"; Karen Marrero, Ph.D. candidate at Yale, who is writing a dissertation on the European and Native American founding families of Detroit; Theda Perdue of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose book "Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835" won the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the best book in Southern women's history; and Nancy Shoemaker of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, author of "American Indian Population Recovery in the 20th Century" and the editor of "Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women."
The panel will be moderated by Virginia Scharff of the University of New Mexico, author of "Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West."
All events are free and open to the public. No registration is required. For more information about the symposium or the programs of the Lamar Center, visit the website at www.yale.edu/lamarcenter or call Katie McFarland at (203) 432-2328.
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