This year’s SSHA conference, centered around “Agency and Action,” took place on the Queen Mary, docked at Long Beach, California, November 12-15th, 2009.

Seven hundred thirty-three registrants attended 191 panels, from the first Panel A1: “Agency in Culture,” the first listed Thursday noon opener, to the chronological closer Panel Q16: “The Uneasy Relationship between Feminism and Passivity in the West.” Between those bookends, an astonishing range of work was on display.

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