Finding Aid for Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Executive Committee Files, 2000-2003 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Executive Committee Files, 2000-2003

ID: 15/13/73

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Department of History

Extent: 0.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Subjects: History Department, Women's History, Women's Studies

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

The Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Executive Committee files (2000-2003) include background information, records from committees, grant applications, information concerning keynote speakers, programs, press releases, publicity files, program coordinator duties, Symposium paper proposals and website paper abstracts.

The Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History is an annual event (began in 2000) sponsored by the University of Illinois History Department in conjunction with the Women's Studies Program.

<p class='main'>In 1867, the Committee on Courses of Study and Faculty recommended a course and professorship in history and social science.<a href='#ftn1'>¹</a> A professorship of history and courses in general history were established at the University within the School of English and Modern Languages in 1871.<a href='#ftn2'>²</a> In 1894, the History Department was established as a separate unit of the University.<a href='#ftn3'>³</a> In 1907, the Trustees approved a Ph.D. program in history.<a href='#ftn4'>⁴</a> The departments of history at both the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses offer undergraduate and graduate work in American, Ancient, English, European, Latin American, Near Eastern, and Far Eastern history.<a href='#ftn5'>⁵</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn1'>1.�  Board of Trustees Transactions, 1st Report, 1867-68, pp. 50, 62.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn2'>2.�  Ibid., 6th Report, March 12, 1872, p. 55.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn3'>3.�  Ibid., 17th Report, March 13, 1894, p. 229.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn4'>4.�  Ibid., 24th Report, June 10, 1907, p. 133.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn5'>5.�  Undergraduate Programs Catalogs, 1973-75, p. 292; and Graduate Programs Catalogs, 1973-75, p. 236.</a></p>

History Department
Women's History
Women's Studies

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 6/26/03; 4/30/03

Other Note: 1 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1513073.pdf

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