I can’t believe this is the last blog post of the semester! I loved watching everyone’s presentations. It’s been so wonderful to see how projects have grown from our initial brainstorming sessions. Making presentations and having discussions with classmates have really helped me in honing into essential questions for my project. And, I’ve read some really interesting articles per recommendations. I hope some of the following comments do the same for others!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comment on Jemma\u2019s Presentation \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hi Jemma! Great presentation. Your use of images and mapping made it very engaging and allowed you draw conclusions on the women attending the conferences with support from readings. I found it very interesting that you noted recent scholar\u2019s opinions on the All-Asian Women\u2019s Conference and formed your own conclusion on its importance. You made a very strong and well thought out claim that \u2018it was an important and significant challenge to western feminism and western dominated transnational organizations, especially through demonstrating women\u2019s agency and how this affected western attitudes towards non-western women.\u2019 Have you read \u2018Suyatin Kartowiyono: A Nationalist Leader of the Indonesian Women\u2019s Movement\u2019 by Susan Blackburn? It analyzes the life of a leader of the women\u2019s movement in Indonesia. It might raise some questions for you on the leaders of these women\u2019s organizations and their intentions on contributing to and leading women\u2019s movements. I skimmed the first few pages and if not helpful for your project, it may just be an interesting read! Here\u2019s the link: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctv1qv1g3.8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve loved seeing how your project has developed this semester!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comment on George\u2019s Presentation \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hi George!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your constructive criticism of your previous assignments is very inspiring! It\u2019s really helpful to be able to reflect on if an assignment actually aligns with the ethos of the historiography. Although we are doing history, cultural anthropology can lend a helpful hand to understanding how different peoples respond to climate crisis and take political and social action. It might be interesting to consider how the environmental movements affected something like literature. Ecocriticism, though holding a longer history, boomed during the 70s to address environmental justice. You could look at texts like Rachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring<\/em>. Here are two readings that I find interesting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction: Ecocriticism and Environmental History<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hannes Bergthaller<\/p>\n\n\n\n