WHEN: Monday, Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Great Plains Art Collection, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 27, 2003 -- Historian Margaret Jacobs will present a seminar titled "White Mother to a Dark Race: Gender and Indigenous Child Removal in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Nov. 3.
The seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m., at the Great Plains Art Collection, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
Jacobs, an associate professor of history at New Mexico State University, teaches courses on U.S. women's history and American Indian history. She is the author of the book "Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1870-1934," and has also written a number of articles, one of which recently won the 2003 Jensen-Miller Prize for the best article on western women's history. Her research focuses on gender, colonialism, and cross-cultural interactions between women in the American West and Australia.
Her lecture is part of the Research and Region seminar series sponsored by the Plains Humanities Alliance at UNL. Jacob's appearance is co-sponsored by the Department of History in the UNL College of Arts and Sciences.
The Research and Region series is an outlet for local and visiting scholars to present their research about the Great Plains and other plains regions to faculty, graduate students and the interested public. Seminars can feature presentations of scholars' research-in-progress, including graduate students' dissertation proposals. Forward proposals to John Wunder, Plains Humanities Alliance, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1221 Seaton Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0692.
Jacobs' paper is available for review before the seminar. Call Deborah Eisloeffel, Plains Humanities Alliance, (402) 472-9478, for a copy, or find it on the alliance's Web site.
CONTACT: Deborah Eisloeffel, Plains Humanities Alliance, (402) 472-9478
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Posted by Tom Simons, Office of University Communications
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