“the gods bring threads to webs begun”: african-americans

APRIL 23—9:00 - 11:00 A.M.
THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
PRESIDING:
DAVID BRION DAVIS, YALE UNIVERSITY
PAPERS:
Virginia and the National Contest over Slavery in the Early Republic,
1776-1833
COMMENT:
ANTHONY A. IACCARINO, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
The Problem of Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to the
Antebellum Era
EVA SHEPPARD, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
JAN E. LEWIS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEWARK CAMPUS
DAVID BRION DAVIS
FROM DRAFT RESISTANCE TO GAY LIBERATION:
SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT POLITICS
PRESIDING:
WINIFRED BREINES, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY,
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
PAPERS:
Men, Women, and the Resistance: The Image and Reality of Gender
Roles in the Draft Resistance Movement of the Vietnam War Era
MICHAEL S. FOLEY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
“People Are Going to Think that You’re a Bunch of Faggots”: Gregory
Calvert and Homophobia in the Student and Anti-Vietnam
War Movements
IAN K. LEKUS, DUKE UNIVERSITY
Foreign Bodies in the Polity: American Expatriates and the History of the
Lesbian and Gay Movement in Toronto, 1965-1977
DAVID S. CHURCHILL, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
COMMENT:
BARBARA L. TISCHLER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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