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WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, August 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Doris Malkmus and Anke Voss, Co-Chairs WCRT
The program, held at the GLBT Historical Society, began with Karen Offen, feminist scholar of French history, providing a presentation on the online International Museum of Women. She was followed by feminist labor historian, Glenna Matthews, who discussed researching working-class women beginning in the 1960s to the present.
WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, August 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Doris Malkmus and Anke Voss, Co-Chairs WCRT
Andrea Hinding and Ann Morgan Campbell spoke at Loyola University’s Gannon Center.
WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, New Orleans, LA
August 3, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Kate Colligan and Ellen Swain, Co-Chairs WCRT
A’Lelia Bundles spoke on Research Adventures from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance.
Women's Collections Working Group meeting at the annual SAA conference, New Orleans, LA
Wednesday, August 17, 5-7 p.m., location TBA
Discussion about the possibility of creating an all day seminar focusing on the administration of women's collections. Session proposals ideas will also be explored for 2006.
WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, New Orleans, LA
Thursday, August 18, 4-5:30 p.m., location TBA
Kate Colligan and Ellen Swain, Co-Chairs WCRT
Susan Tucker of the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Tulane University will elaborate on the theme of documenting foodways and its impact on women's lives.
Session brainstorming meeting
Wednesday, August 4, 2-4 p.m., location TBA
Purpose: to discuss session proposal ideas for SAA 2005. The Roundtable invites ANYONE who is interested in generating session proposals that involve or highlight women's collections or women's history. We strongly encourage all who have sought endorsements from WCRT in the past to join us.
WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, Boston, MA
Thursday, August 5, 5:30-7 p.m., location TBA
Kate Colligan and Ellen Swain, Co-Chairs WCRT
Open to archivists with holdings concerning or created by women, this meeting will include a lively discussion about upcoming projects and collaboration.
The Mother of all Midwives
Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 7:00 p.m., Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College. Sponsored by the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Ina May Gaskin, author of Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Childbirth, will give a book talk. Ms. Gaskin is sometimes called the mother of modern midwifery and a co-founder of Midwives Alliance of North America. Her archives are part of the SSC.
Shaping History: Chicago Jewish Women in the 20th Century
March 9 - October 31, 2003. Gallery of Chicago Jewish History, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL.
This exhibition features holdings from the Chicago Jewish Archives, including photographs, documents and artifacts, which trace the history of Chicago Jewish women from the founding of the National Council of Jewish Women in 1893 to civil rights activists of the 1960s and politicians of the 1990s.
Women and Life on Earth
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 2-6 p.m. Alumnae Gym, Level A, Smith College. Sponsored by the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
The Sophia Smith Collection will host a celebration of Women and Life on Earth, an international ecofeminist and peace organization whose archives will become part of the SSC. There will be presentations by writer-activist Grace Paley, scholar-activist Jean Grossholtz, peace activist Frances Crowe and others, an open mike, and a new cabaret piece titled "Globalize This!" For more information, contact the Sophia Smith Collection at www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc.
Life in the Arts: Women's Experience
Saturday, March 22, 2003. Women in Leadership Archives, Gannon Center, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
The 12th Annual Women's Conference will be held 22 March 2003 at the Women in Leadership Archives, Gannon Center, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO. This year's topic is "Life in the Arts: Women's Experience." The featured speaker is Nicole Hollander whose cartoon strip SYLVIA appears daily and weekly in over 80 newspapers around the country.
Sanger Tribute
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Alumnae Gym, Level A, Smith College.
Margaret Sanger's grandson, Alex Sanger, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. For more information, contact the Sophia Smith Collection at www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc. Co-Sponsored by the Sophia Smith Collection, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Tapestry, Inc.
WCRT meeting at the annual SAA Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Friday, August 22, 2003, 4:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m., location TBA
Kate Colligan and Ellen Swain, Co-Chairs WCRT This meeting, open to archivists who have holdings concerning or created by women, will include a lively discussion about upcoming projects and collaboration.
Gloria Feldt Book Talk
Monday, October 20, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives Reading Room, Alumnae Gym
Sponsored by the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and longtime reproductive rights activist, will give a talk on her new book, Behind Every Choice is a Story.