March 8, 2019
Now in its 19th year, the graduate Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign showcases graduate research that foregrounds histories of women, gender, and sexuality. This year’s symposium theme is Decoding Difference. The symposium will be held March 8th in the fourth floor of the Levis Faculty Center.
The panel times have been set. Please see the "Program" page for information on panel sessions.
Download the call for papers here.
Amy Lippert will deliver a keynote presentation entitled
“The Menken in San Francisco: Modern Celebrity,Visual Culture, and Identity Formation in Nineteenth Century Society”
March 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm in the IPRH Lecture Hall (Rooms 422 & 424), Levis Faculty Center,
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL 61801.
Why and how did the modern celebrity emerge in the early nineteenth century? What
can we learn about the formation and policing of specific categories of identity from
the oftentimes idiosyncratic and iconoclastic construction of Adah Isaacs Menken,
one of the earliest celebrity personas? This talk will employ visual studies and
historical methodologies to explore the stakes and dimensions of decoding difference
in the nineteenth-century United States.
Amy Lippert is Assistant Professor of American History and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural and social history of the United States in the 19th century, with a special interest in the mass production, consumption, and popular interaction with visual imagery and problems of perception. She teaches courses and seminars on Visual Culture in American Life, 19th-century U.S. Cultural and Social History, the U.S. West, American Urban History, Gender and Sexuality, American Cultural Institutions, Consumerism and Mass Culture, and Death and Memory. Her first book, Consuming Identities (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines visual culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century San Francisco. Dr. Lippert was born in San Francisco and received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Now in its 19th year, the graduate Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign showcases graduate research that foregrounds histories of women, gender, and sexuality. This year’s symposium theme is Decoding Difference. The symposium will be held March 8th in the fourth floor of the Levis Faculty Center.
The panel times have been set. Please see the "Program" page for information on panel sessions.
Download the call for papers here.
Amy Lippert will deliver a keynote presentation entitled
“The Menken in San Francisco: Modern Celebrity,Visual Culture, and Identity Formation in Nineteenth Century Society”
March 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm in the IPRH Lecture Hall (Rooms 422 & 424), Levis Faculty Center,
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL 61801.
Why and how did the modern celebrity emerge in the early nineteenth century? What
can we learn about the formation and policing of specific categories of identity from
the oftentimes idiosyncratic and iconoclastic construction of Adah Isaacs Menken,
one of the earliest celebrity personas? This talk will employ visual studies and
historical methodologies to explore the stakes and dimensions of decoding difference
in the nineteenth-century United States.
Amy Lippert is Assistant Professor of American History and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural and social history of the United States in the 19th century, with a special interest in the mass production, consumption, and popular interaction with visual imagery and problems of perception. She teaches courses and seminars on Visual Culture in American Life, 19th-century U.S. Cultural and Social History, the U.S. West, American Urban History, Gender and Sexuality, American Cultural Institutions, Consumerism and Mass Culture, and Death and Memory. Her first book, Consuming Identities (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines visual culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century San Francisco. Dr. Lippert was born in San Francisco and received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley.
