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Judith P. Zinsser
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Presentations and Public Lectures

  • “Private Letters, Public Scandals and Historical Reputation: Du Châtelet’s Letters to Saint-Lambert,” American Society for 18th Century Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 2007.
  • “Transnational History, Diplomatic History and Gender,” American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 2007
  • “The Marquise Du Châtelet and the Historians,” History of Science Society, Vancouver, BC Canada, November 2006
  • “La Marquise Du Châtelet: La Morale et la metaphisique,” Tricentennaire de la marquise Du Châtelet. Paris, France, June 2006
  • “Legends and Legacies of the Marquise Du Châtelet,” American Society for 18th Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec Canada, March 2006
  • “Gender and World Historians” [Keynote Address], Northwest Regional World History Association, Portland, OR, October 2005
  • "Les Etudes et la gloire: the Education of the Marquise Du Châtelet," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 8 August 2003
  • "Encountering Biography," Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ, 13 March 2003
  • "Becoming a World Historian," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NEB, 3 December 2002
  • "Nancy Mitford and the Marquise Du Châtelet: On the Subjectivity of Biographers," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, New Paltz, NY, 28 September 2002
  • "International Feminisms and the United Nations," Cal State University-Northridge, Northridge CA, 19 April 2002
  • "Me, my aunt and an 18th-century marquise," American Society for 18th Century Studies, Colorado Springs CO, 5 April 2002
  • "New Experiments with an Old Form: the Stories Biographers Never Tell," History Department and Women's Studies Lecture Series, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, 3 April 2002
  • "Naming Rights, Taking Action: Women and the United Nations" Women's History Month Lecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, 3 April 2002; University of North Texas, Denton TX, 28 March 2002
  • "The Evolving Discipline: World History," Conference on the Future of the Past, University of Western Ontario, Oxford, ONT, Canada, 16 March 2002
  • "Globalizing Gender History: Early Modern and Modern Europe," American Historical Association, San Francisco CA, 6 January 2002
  • "Programmes of Action and How They Grew: the Official and Unofficial Results of the United Nations Decade for Women 1975-85," International Federation for Research in Women's History/International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, Norway, 12 August 2000
  • "The Marquise Du Châtelet and the Many Reputations of an Eighteenth-Century Philosophe and Mathematician," University of Cincinnati-Miami University Symposium, Cincinnati OH, 8 April 2000
  • "Why Are There No 18th Century Women Scientists and Philosophers? The Marquise Du Châtelet and the Categorization of Knowledge," Tenth Swiss Congress of Women Historians, Fribourg, Switzerland, 19 February 2000
  • "The Marquise Du Châtelet: Creating Images of an Unacknowledged Philosophe," Annual Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium, Lubbock TX, 28 January, 2000.
  • "The Many Worlds of the Marquise Du Châtelet," Institute of Humanities, John Carroll University, Cleveland OH, 15 November 1999
  • "World History's Best Kept Secret: Third World Feature Films," Ohio World History Association Annual Conference, Oxford OH, 16 October 1999
  • "Translating Newton's Principia: the Marquise Du Châtelet's Revisions and Additions for a French Audience," International Congress of the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, 27 July 1999
  • "The Wonders of World History," Alumni Lecture, State University of New York-Geneseo, Genesee NY, 1 May 1999
  • "Writing Science for the French Academy: the Marquise Du Châtelet and her Treatise on the Nature of Fire," American Society for 18th Century Studies, Milwaukee WI, 27 March 1999
  • "The Daring Life, Tragic Death, and Loss to History of the Marquise Du Châtelet," Ohio University, Athens OH, 1 March 1999; University of North Carolina-Asheville, NC, 9 March 1998
  • "Teaching Gender and Third World Film," World History Association, Fort Collins CO, 19 June 1998
  • "Mme. Du Châtelet and Mandeville's Fable of the Bees," American Society for 18th Century Studies, South Bend IN, 4 April 1998
  • "Africa in Europe: Medieval Images and Renaissance Images," Chair and Discussant, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, January, 1998
  • "Risking Ridicule: Doing Science with the 18th Century Marquise Du Châtelet," Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 29 May 1997
  • "Conversations with the Marquise: Representations of an 18th Century French Woman of Science," Western Society for 18th Century Studies, Berkeley CA, 15 February 1997
  • "Their Fathers' Daughters: Women Historians and the Berkshire Conference," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, New Palz NY, 9 November 1996
  • "Technology and World History: The Women's Perspective," World History International Conference, Pomona CA, 21 June 1996
  • "Glitz and Glitches: Making Technology Work in Your Classroom," Lilly Conference on College Teaching-West, Lake Arrowhead CA, 8 March 1996
  • "Change Over Time: the United Nations World Conferences on Women," Women's Studies Colloquium; Oxford Society for Peace and Justice; National Organization for Women [NOW]-Cincinnati Chapter, Oxford and Cincinnati OH, October-November 1995
  • "Something Old, Something New: Defining Identity Through the United Nations," World History Association International Conference, Florence, Italy, 24 June 1995
  • "Women Historians and the American Academic Establishment," American History Seminar, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15 May 1995
  • "Emilie Du Châtelet: Translating and Negotiating Newton's Science," American Society for 18th Century Studies, Tucson AZ, 6 April 1995
  • "Women in Academe: A Mismatch?" Women's History Month Program, Miami University, Oxford OH, 21 March 1995
  • "Student-Centered Learning: Role Playing," Lilly Conference on College Teaching-West, Lake Arrowhead CA, 4 March 1995
  • "Emilie Du Châtelet: Gender, Genius and Intellectual Authority," Southern Historical Association, Louisville KY, 11 November 1994
  • "The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development: The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples," World History Association Annual Conference, Aspen CO, 8 October 1994
  • "Representations of Female Testimony and Male Sexual Fantasy in Early Modern French Demonologies," Attending to Early Modern Women Symposium, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, MD, 23 April 1994
  • "Killing Witches: the Awful Coupling of Science and Faith," Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA, 24 March 1994
  • "A History of their Own: Women in Medieval and Renaissance History," Interagency Federal Women's Program, Mark Twain National Forest Service, Rolla MO, 16 March 1994
  • "Gender and World History: From the Particular to the General," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, 7 January 1994
  • "Indigenous Voices at the United Nations," Campus Ministry Center, Oxford OH, 9 December 1993
  • "Surviving in a Gentleman's World: Lady Historians of the 1930s and 40s," Women's Studies Colloquium, Miami University, Oxford OH, 18 September 1993
  • "Witches: Heretics, Priestesses, or Wisewomen?" Barnard College, New York NY, 10 March 1993 [also given at Furman University, Greenville SC, 10 March 1994]
  • "A Margin of Our Own: Women Historians, Women's Studies and the Academy," Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 5 March 1993
  • "Gendering History: the Case of the Witchcraft Persecutions in France," Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO, January 1993
  • "The Global Impact of 1492 on Women of the Americas," World History Association International Conference, Philadelphia PA, 25 June 1992
  • "Human Rights Declarations, Covenants, and the United Nations," John Jay College-City University of New York, NY, 10 February 1992
  • "Indigenous and Spanish Accounts of CortJz's Conquest of the Aztecs," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York NY, 29 December 1991
  • "European History and Women's Lives," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York NY, 28 December 1991
  • "Academic Feminism and Its Discontents: the Case of History," Gender in Academe Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa FL, 1 November 1991
  • "Magical Powers and Revolutionary Deeds: Women Rebels in Early Modern Europe," John Jay College-City University of New York, NY, March 1991
  • "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Gender and the Medieval Quest Tale," Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College-City University of New York NY, 21 March 1991
  • "Historiographical Implications of Women's History," Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 3 October 1989
  • "The Women's Perspective and Your Discipline," General Studies Program, New York University, NY, February 1989
  • "European History and Women's Lives," The Humanities Institute, Brooklyn College-City University of New York, NY, 30 November 1988
  • "'Teaching Strategies' Are Not Just for High School Students," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, December 1987
  • "Rethinking Women's History: Introduction to A History of Their Own," Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, New York NY, September 1987
  • "Rewriting the Narrative: European Women's History and Women Historians," Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, 21 June 1987
  • "Comparing New Constitutions: The United States and Bolivia after Independence," New York Historical Society Seminars on the Constitution, New York NY, June 1987
  • "United Nations Decade for Women: Revolution in the Making," World History Association Regional Conference, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, May 1987
  • "Brer Rabbit and the Oral Traditions of the Americas," Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, NY, 14 November 1986
  • "Women and Nairobi: Portraits of Leaders," Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, New York NY, 18 November 1985
  • "The Media and the Copenhagen Women's Conference," Berkshire Conference on Women History, Smith College, Northampton MA, June 1984
  • "Methods for Teaching Latin America in Junior and Senior High School Classes," New York State Education Department Conference on Teaching and Research, Albany NY, 30 October 1982
  • "Can World History Be Taught? Changing Perspectives within Existing Curriculum Restrictions," Association of Teachers in Independent Schools, New York NY, February 1982
  • "The Subordinate Role: Why Have Some Women Accepted It? Why Have Others Rejected It?-Insights from History," Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, 16 June 1981
  • "On Integrating Women's History into the Traditional Curriculum," New York State European Historians Association, Rochester NY, 27 September 1980
  • "Global Awareness and Your Classroom," National Council of the Social Studies Regional Conference, Boston MA, March 1980
  • "New Approaches to Women's History," Women's Studies Program, New School for Liberal Arts, Brooklyn College-City University of New York, NY, October 1979
  • "Classroom experiences with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Annual Conference of the International Schools Association, Isfahan, Iran, July 1978
  • "Multinational History for the United Nations Community," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas TX, December 1977