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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Give the Ballot to the Mothers (1996) and The Lottery (1969)
Followed by a discussion with Elizabeth Singer More, PhD candidate in history, Harvard University
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, October 15, 2009 – Thursday, April 22, 2010
Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series"
Various times and locations, 617-495-8647
Thursday, October 15, 2009
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Historicizing Social Citizenship in the United States: Gender, Disability, and Comparative Perspectives”
Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont, with commentary by Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
November
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Packing a Suitcase (ca. 1950s), Beautiful Japan (1918), and Home Movies from the Schlesinger Library Collection
Followed by a discussion with Jeremy Blatter, PhD candidate in history of science and film and visual studies, Harvard University, and Melissa Dollman, Audiovisual Cataloger, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
December
Monday, December 7, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
The Dione Lucas Cooking Show (1950s), Julia Child at Marshall Field’s (1980), Buying Food (1950), and Seeds of Promise: The Critical Roles of Third World Women in Food Production (1987)
Followed by a discussion with Laura Shapiro, Author, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (Viking Adult, 2004) and Julia Child: A Life (Viking Adult, 2007)
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, December 10, 2009
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“How Are the Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War”
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with commentary by Nina Silber, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
“Cookbooks and Books on Women’s Studies”
10 a.m.–6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
February
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) and Jeannette Rankin, The Woman Who Voted No (1982)
Followed by a discussion with Marilyn Morgan and Emilyn Brown, Manuscript Catalogers, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
March
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women (1981) and We’re Here to Stay: Women in the Trades (1986)
Followed by a discussion with Susan J. von Salis, Associate Curator of Archives, Harvard University, and producer of We’re Here to Stay: Women in the Trades
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, March 18, 2010
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“'Grandeurs Which I Had Heard Of’: Women Travelers and Print Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic"
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas at Austin, with commentary by Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
April
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
The American Look (1958), Coney Island (1940s), and films featuring Radcliffe College
Followed by a discussion with Olga Touloumi, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, April 22, 2010
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Making 'False Delicacy’ True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1935–1845”
April Haynes, Massachusetts Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society, with commentary by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
May
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party (1980), directed by Johanna Demetrakas
Followed by a discussion with Joanne Donovan, Audiovisual and Photograph Cataloger, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
