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Stowe Society Panels at ALA
We are pleased to announce the lineup for The Stowe Society panel at ALA in Boston (May 23-26, 2013)
Consulting “Woman’s Nature”: Religion, Theology, and Prophecy in Stowe’s Fiction
Chair: Leslie Petty, Rhodes College
1. “Stowe’s ‘Living Gospel’ and Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Religious Culture,” Mary McCartin Wearn, Middle Georgia State College
2. “‘Unsuspected Incense’: Mariology and the Problem of Suffering in The Minister’s [...]
Stowe Panel, ALA 2013
May 23-26, Boston, MA; proposal deadline Jan 28, 2013
In Oldtown Folks, Harriet Beecher Stowe famously complains that “woman’s nature had never been consulted in theology.” Yet, as the daughter, sister, and wife of clergymen, Stowe was herself steeped in the theology and religious practice of her day. Through her fiction, Stowe sometimes challenges the patriarchal [...]
SSAWW Reception Friday, October 12, 3:30-4:45 PM
The Stowe Society invites you to a reception cosponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Margaret Fuller Societies at the SSAWW conference in Denver on Friday, 12 October, at 3:30-4:45 p.m. Stop by and enjoy Italian treats and coffee/tea. We’ll highlight the upcoming Transatlantic Women II conference next June in Florence, and there will be [...]
Transatlantic Women II: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Abroad
Transatlantic Women II: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Abroad will take place
in Florence, Italy, from 6-9 June 2013. The conference will again be sponsored by the Margaret
Fuller Society, the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society.
The CFP is also posted on the Stowe Society website, and we encourage you to join us at [...]
CFP: Transatlantic Women II, International Conference
Call for Papers: International Conference
Transatlantic Women II:
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Abroad
Florence, Italy
OPA Centro Arte e Cultura
6-9 June 2013
Sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, and the Margaret Fuller Society
Nineteenth-century American women writers moved—culturally, intellectually, and geographically—in a transatlantic, even a global world. Following the success of our 2008 [...]
Stowe Society Sessions at SSAWW, 2012
Denver, Colorado, October 10-13, 2012
Literary Friendships: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Contemporaries
Chair: Denise Kohn, Baldwin-Wallace College
1. “Writing Women: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s A Little Book of Friends,” Rita Bode, Trent University
2. “Sarah Orne Jewett’s Experience with the World of Publishing,” Gail C. Keating, Penn State Worthington Scranton
3. “American Women’s Regionalism, Friendship, and Postbellum U.S. Philosophy,” Doug [...]
Stowe Society Sessions at ALA, 2012
Family Life and the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Organized by the Stowe Society
Chair: Mary McCartin Wearn, Macon State College
1. “Lateral Affiliation and Crisis: Mixed Race Sibling Love and Violence in Stowe’s Dred,” Emily E. VanDette, SUNY Fredonia
2. “Imagining a Real Man: Masculinity and the Ethics of Submission in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing [...]
March 8th: Book Signing and Talk With Robin Bernstein
March 8th, 5:00 PM at The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
by Robin Bernstein
Just published! Available in the Stowe Center Museum Store
Robin Bernstein is a familiar face in the Stowe Center Library. Her book, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, relied heavily on artifacts [...]
2012 Student Stowe Prize
Submission deadline is February 27, 2012
The Student Stowe Prize will recognize outstanding writing by United States high school and college
students that motivates positive action for social justice. The Prize will recognize writing that is
making a tangible impact on a social justice issue critical to contemporary society. Issues may
include, but are not limited to: race, class [...]
