“A World of Citizens: Women, History, and the Vision of Linda K. Kerber,” will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5-6, in the Senate Chambers of the Old Capitol.

The symposium will honor and celebrate Linda Kerber, professor emerita in the Department of History in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The symposium will draw on important threads in Kerber’s work over the decades of her career, and especially on her 2007 American Historical Association Presidential Address, "The Stateless as the Citizen's Other." As a scholar of the rights, obligations, and complexities of citizenship; as a member of the generation which brought the study of women's history into college and university curricula; and as the friend and teacher of another generation of historians, Kerber’s influence reaches deep into the profession of history scholarship.

The symposium begins at 9:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 5 and ends at 4:45 p.m. that day; it will be immediately followed by a reception and dinner at the Levitt Center for University Advancement. The symposium resumes at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, and ends at 4:15 p.m. A closing session and reception will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Iowa Women’s Archives, followed by a reception at Prairie Lights from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information visit clas.uiowa.edu/history/world-citizens-women-history-and-vision-linda-k-kerber-october-5-6-2012.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Office of the President, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction, College of Law, Center for the Study of Recent U.S. History, Department of History, Department of American Studies, Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Iowa Women’s Archives, Iowa Memorial Union and Iowa House; and by Oxford University Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Prairie Lights Bookstore.