U.S. Embassy in Austria
Time: Mo., 08.04.2019, 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Amerika Haus, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Moderated by Sylvia Mieszkowski, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Events like the Women’s March on Washington and the #MeToo Movement are built on decades of feminist work. Rachel Seidman will discuss how feminism has unfolded in the United States since the 1980s, and how activists today draw on the past to create new pathways for the next generation.
Rachel Seidman, Ph.D., is Director of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Yale, Seidman’s current research project is an oral history of feminist activism in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015. She is the author of The Civil War: A History in Documents and co-editor of Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives. Rachel Seidman is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turku in Finland.
A registration is necessary via: viennaprograms@state.gov