The Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and In Her Own Right project (Web)
Time: 18.-19.03.2021
Venue: virtual space, via Philadelphia
100 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, PACSCL is the organizer of an online conference on women’s activism, 1820-1920. Martha S. Jones, author of „Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All“ (Web) will give the keynote. The registration is open now (Web). This conference will celebrate more than 5 years of work on the In Her Own Right project (Web).
Program
See the program in more detail here (Web).
Thursday, March 18, 2021
- 09:00 am: Opening Plenary and Session #1: Portals to the documentary history of women’s activism
- 10:15 am: Friendship and Relationships Between Women
- 11:45 am: Professional Women
- 2:00 pm: Track 1: Peacemakers
- 2:00 pm: Track 2: Women in Politics
- 3:15 pm: Track 1: Undisputed Dignity: Preserving Anna Julia Cooper’s Legacy Through Her Archives
- 3:15 pm: Track 2: Alice Paul at the University of Pennsylvania: A Study of “The Legal Rights of Women in Pennsylvania” (1912)
- 6:00 pm: Keynote from Martha S. Jones
Friday, March 19, 2021
- 09:00 am: Perspectives on Suffrage
- 10:45 am: Philanthropy with Strings
- 12:00 pm: Antislavery Women
- 2:00 pm: Track 1: Prominence and Memory
- 2:00 pm: Track 2: El Voto Feminino: Women and Suffrage in New Mexico’s Past and Present
- 3:45 pm: Track 1: Lives Recreated in the Reconstruction Era
- 3:45 pm: Track 2: Social Change in the WWI Era