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Department of History
School of Humanities and Sciences

Gender History Workshop

The Gender History Workshop brings together Stanford historians from across geographic and temporal specialties to present their current research on the histories of women, gender, and sexuality. The workshop meets three times per quarter to discuss pre-circulated papers. For a copy of the pre-circulated paper for our upcoming events, please join the listserv or contact the graduate student organizers listed below.

2026-2027 Faculty Organizer: 
Fiona Griffiths | fgriffit [at] stanford.edu (fgriffit[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

2026-2027 Graduate Student Organizer:
Gillian Smith | gsmith22 [at] stanford.edu (gsmith22[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Open to History Department faculty and graduate students

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Upcoming Events

November
3

GHW: Sharon Feng

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner 307

Past Events

October
10

Neither Idle nor Worthless: Accounting for Doll's Labor and Value in the Economy of Slavery

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner 307
April
16

The Birth of Ottoman Penal Biopolitics: Motherhood, Pregnancy and Child-Protection in the Late Ottoman Penal System (1850-1918)

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner, Room 307
February
20

Judging the Frontier: The Traffic in Women and the Local Order in the Nineteenth Century Southwest China

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner, Room 307
January
23

“The Apostolate of Work”: Capitalism, Environmental Catastrophe, and Social Crisis in Colonial Côte d’Ivoire

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner, Room 307
January
11

Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner, Room 302

 

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