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Program

PROGRAM

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Friday, April 23rd  

Introduction 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm

 

Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College
Barbara Matthews, Public Historian, Historic Deerfield, Inc. 

 

Visualizing Resistance 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

 

Moderator: Patricia Berman, Theordora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art, Wellesley College

Simone Drake, Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, Ohio State
     “Visualizing and Hearing Separatist Aesthetics in Contemporary Black Art & Music”

Martyna Majewska, PhD candidate, Art History, University of St. Andrews
     “Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger Performing on the Fringe of Feminism in Southern California”

Tamar Carroll, Associate Professor, History Department, Rochester Institute of Technology
     “Feminist Genealogies: From the Second Wave to ACT UP and Beyond”

Q&A to follow

 

Saturday, April 24th

The Materiality of Protest 9:00 am - 10:30 am

 

Moderator: Rebecca Bedell, Professor of Art, Wellesley College

Mariah Gruner, PhD candidate, American & New England Studies, Boston University
     “Stitching Domestic Anti-Slavery: The Uses of Needlework in Women’s Anti-Slavery Activism”

Heather Munro Prescott, Professor, Central Connecticut State University
     “Fashioning the Women's Suffrage Movement”

Laura Prieto, Professor, History/Women’s and Gender Studies, Simmons University
     “‘Something Besides Money’: The Two Women’s Suffrage Exhibitions of 1915”

Emma Rothberg, PhD Candidate, History Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
     “Suffrage in the Streets: Women’s Suffrage Parades and Gendered Geography in New York City”

Q&A to follow

 

Break 10:30 am - 11:00 am  

 

Representing Women: The Visual Politics of Suffrage 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 

 

Moderator: Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College

Allison Lange, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Wentworth Institute
     “Visual Debates and the Women’s Suffrage Movement”

Elsie Heung, PhD, Art History, CUNY; Grants Administrator
     “White Slavery and the Power of the Vote”

Cori Field, Associate Professor, Dept. of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia
     “Reconfiguring Old Women and Old Maids: The Visual Culture of Female Ageing in the US Women’s Rights Movement, 1870-1920”

Q&A and Final Wrap-up