2009–2010 Film Series
The following film showings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will be held, unless otherwise noted, at:
6 p.m.
Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
These showings are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 617-495-8647.
October
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
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
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
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
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
