October 5 — If women’s contribution to the Civil War couldn’t be fully understood, what about today?
Jane Schultz, IUPUI Professor of English, discusses “Performing Modesty: War, Commemoration, and the Sexual Politics of Publicity”: Prof. Schultz’s research integrates the publishing climate in the 1860s with the socially complex editorial dance of editors with the human subjects they sought to describe. With emphasis on Frank Moore, a founding member of the New-York Historical Society, Schultz examines the editorial architecture that laid the foundation for his commemorative Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice (1866)–a book that did not, according to his female correspondents, accurately capture their wartime labors.
When: Friday October 5 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: IUPUI Cavanaugh Hall, 508
Free and open to the public.
Part of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI 2007-2008 Sabbatical Speaker Series
If this sounds interesting, check out … The Ken Burns film commemorating heroism and sacrifice of World War II, “It was Everybody’s War” on November 14.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:14 am
[…] October 5 — “Performing Modesty: War, Commemoration, and the Sexual Politics of Publicity” Jane Schultz, IUPUI Professor of English, discusses the publishing climate in the 1860s. She examines the editorial architecture that laid the foundation for his commemorative Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice (1866) — a book that did not, according to his female correspondents, accurately capture their wartime labors. check it out […]