Thursday, January 8, 2026
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Fields of Controversy: Historical Perspectives on Building and Preserving Women’s and Gender History in Hostile and Retrograde Times
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1
Gendered Threat or Tool for Liberation? Feminists Grapple with Media’s Role in Women's Health and Well-Being
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2
Race, Gender, and Stereotyping: Intersectional Issues in Women’s Roles in the United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 3
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 3
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Childbirth and Childcare in Nigeria and the United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 5
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 5
Friday, January 9, 2026
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Gendered Labor, Cultural Knowledge, and Resistance in Women’s Everyday Practices
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 7
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 7
Disability, Vulnerability, and Resistance: Examining the Lives of Disabled Black Girls and Women
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 8
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 8
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Abortion: Histories of Care, Resistance, and Reproductive Justice
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 11
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 11
Relationships and Well-Being: Women and Power in American History
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 13
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 13
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Women's Health Activism and Agency: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Class
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 16
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 16
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Beyond “I Do”: Marriage in the 20th-Century United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 17
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 17
Saturday, January 10, 2026
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Strategies for Teaching the History of Women’s Voting Rights in K–12 and University Classrooms
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 21
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 21
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Murder, Mayhem, and Asylums: The State’s Rendering of the Inconceivable
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 22
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 22
Revisiting “Violence Against Women”: Feminist Activisms in the Late 20th Century
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 23
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 23
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Building Support Systems in the Early 20th-Century United States and Britain
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 24
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 24
Writing for the Popular Press: A Ms. Workshop for Feminist Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 25
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 25
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 26
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 26
6:30 PM-9:30 PM
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Dance with DJ Tess
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Sunday, January 11, 2026
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Feeding Change: Revisiting Intersections of Food, Health, Labor, and Education in 20th-Century America
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 28
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 28
Frances Perkins: The Force Behind Social Security and for the Way Life Should Be
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 29
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 29
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Writing History as a Feminist Practice of Self Care
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 30
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 30
Writings About Well-Being and Transnational Networks of Care in the British World, 1870s–1930s
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 31
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 31