[Scla-list] FW: USC to host public symposium on SC women's history June 4

[Curtis Rogers]

Attn: SC libraries

 

Pass this along to anyone you know with an interest in SC history.

 

 



 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    FOR MORE
INFORMATION, CONTACT:

May 6, 2009
Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb

HIST137
Phone: 803-777-5400; E-mail: 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/

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  

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, or contact the
university's conferences and event services staff at 803-777-2927 or via
e-mail at confs at mailbox.sc.edu.

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