[Scla-list] Fwd: USC to host public symposium on SC/Southeastern women's history June 4 - 6

[Bill McRee]

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From: "BINETTE, MARGARET" <PEGGY at mailbox.sc.edu>

To: "BINETTE, MARGARET" <PEGGY at mailbox.sc.edu>

Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:41:54 -0400

Subject: USC to host public symposium on SC/Southeastern women's history 
June 4 - 6






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  FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:


May 6,
2009                                                                  
   Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb


HIST137                                                                      
  
   Phone: 803-777-5400; E-mail: peggy at mailbox.sc.edu 
[mailto:peggy at mailbox.sc.edu]














University of South Carolina invites public to
celebrate


history and lives of South Carolina women June 4





A public symposium celebrating the
lives of South Carolina women is set for Thursday, June 4, at the University 
of
South Carolina and is expected to draw scholars from around the world who 
have written
about Palmetto State women.


Hosted by the university’s
College of Arts and Sciences, “South Carolina Women: Their Lives and
Times,” will take place in the Daniel-Mickel Center on the eighth floor
of the Moore School of Business. The daylong event begins at 8:30 a.m. and 
will
feature concurrent sessions with dozens of mini-presentations on the lives 
of
notable South Carolina women, from the Native American “Lady of
Cofitachequi,” who reigned in the 1500s, to S.C. Chief Justice Jean Hoefer
Toal.


The event is co-sponsored by the
Southeastern Institute for Women and Politics and the Alliance for Women. 
The
symposium is open and intended for the public; lunch is optional. Fees are 
$20
for registration and parking or $40, which includes lunch. Reservations can 
be
made on line at http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/symposium/ 
[http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/symposium/]


The symposium coincides with the
release of the first installment in the three-volume anthology, “South
Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times,” co-edited by Dr. Marjorie Spruill
and Dr. Valinda Littlefield at the university and Dr. Joan Marie Johnson of
Northeastern Illinois University. The anthology is being published by
University of Georgia Press. Throughout the symposium, authors will bring 
their
biographical entries to life through lively accounts of South Carolina women
who were patriots, slaves, plantation mistresses, abolitionists, 
suffragists,
preservationists, mill workers, World War II shipyard welders, civil-rights
leaders, artists, scientists, politicians and even a stock-car driver. A 
number
of the women whose stories will be told are expected to attend and be
recognized for their role in the history of the state.


The symposium on South Carolina women
will take place just before a major conference, the Eighth Southern 
Conference
on Women’s History, the triennial conference of the Southern Association
for Women Historians. The conference begins the evening of June 4 and runs
through Saturday, June 6. The gathering will feature women’s history
scholars from the United States and Europe.


Individuals who attend the South
Carolina Women’s History symposium on June 4 are invited to attend a
dinner and lecture that evening, the opening events for the two-day 
conference.
Featured speakers at the 7 p.m. lecture


are Dr. Glenda Gilmore of Yale University, and Dr. Patricia
Sullivan of the University of South Carolina. Both are leading historians of
African-American history who will discuss women in the civil-rights 
movement.
The dinner, which will take place in the Russell House University Union, is 
$25
per person, with online registration at the same Web site: 
www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh [http://www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh]


The public also is invited to
register for and attend other sessions of the three – day Southern
Conference on Women’s History. Sessions will cover a wide range of
topics, including “Gone with the Wind” and southern identity, the
teaching of Southern history outside the South, black women educators and
activism, female religious leaders, Southern women’s diaries, women in
the business in the early American South, women in post-Civil War 
Appalachia,
early Virginian women and feminism, community organizing and gaining
recognition for women’s history sites. Archivists from across South
Carolina will conduct workshops on teaching and research using their
collections, and the university’s South Caroliniana Library will host an
open house for conference attendees. There also will be a women’s history
tour of Columbia.


For more information on the
“South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times” symposium on June 4
or the Southern Conference on Women’s History June 4 – 6, go to the
Web site: www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh [http://www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh],
or contact the university’s conferences and event services staff at
803-777-2927 or via e-mail at confs at mailbox.sc.edu 
[mailto:confs at mailbox.sc.edu].


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