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Although best known today as the first woman to run for the Presidency, Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was far more. Among many other things, she and her sister Tennessee Claflin were vocal advocates for equal rights at a time when the position was highly unpopular and often ridiculed. On March 11th at 7:30 p.m. the Robbins Hunter Museum will present the ninth in its planned series of round table discussions based on the platforms and interests of Woodhull and Claflin, “Women in the Next 100 Years.”
The Museum will host four distinguished women to discuss the difficulties and successes of women since Woodhull’s day. How much has been accomplished since 1870, when Woodhull announced her presidential bid and what remains the same? What can be done to bring about meaningful equality for all? We hope the discussion will delve deeper into continuing disparities and inspire continued discussion about gender and racial equality in order to inspire change.
The discussion will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. on the 21st of January via Zoom. Click the “PURCHASE TICKETS HERE” button to reserve your spot, $10 for non-members, $5 for members. The Zoom information will be forwarded to all participants upon payment. Please note, tickets must be purchased prior to the event in order for the Zoom link to be sent.
Speakers
Ellen Carol DuBois is one of the nation’s leading historians of women’s efforts to gain the right to vote. She was educated at Wellesley College and Northwestern University, and taught at the University of Buffalo and, for the last three decades, at the University of California at Los Angeles. Among her many books on woman suffrage, her most recent, published by Simon and Schuster in February 2020, is Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. This is the first comprehensive history of the seventy-five-year-long U.S. woman suffrage movement to appear on more than a half century. She has also written about women’s rights movements internationally, and is the co-author of the leading textbook in U.S. women’s history, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History.
Brenda Elaine Stevenson is the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in the Department of History and a Professor of African American Studies at UCLA. She is a social historian whose work centers on gender, race, family and social conflict in America and the Atlantic World from the colonial period through the late 20th century. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia where she was a DuPont Regional Scholar and an Echols Scholar. Earning her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, her dissertation became her award winning book, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. Brenda Stevenson authored The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots, which was awarded the (OAH) Organization of American Historian’s 2014 James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations in the U.S.; and Women’s eNews honored her with the 2015 Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism for the book. In 2015, Professor Stevenson published What is Slavery?, which surveys the history of human bondage in pre-modern societies and black enslavement in the United States with emphasis on the social history elements and voices of the enslaved. She currently is completing a history of the enslaved black family in North America. She served as a senior editor for the award winning, three-volume Encyclopedia of Black Women’s History, is editor of The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke, is co-author of the National Park Services’ Underground Railroad and author of numerous journal articles, book chapters and review essays.
Cornelia Weiss is a retired military colonel, having served in the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Honors received include the US Air Force Keenan Award for making the most notable contribution to the development of international law. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Utah, an MA from Chile’s national academy of strategy and policy studies, and a JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law. She first learned about UNSCR 1325 when attending the Inter-American Defense College in 2010-2011. Knowing that history is often used as an excuse to exclude women, she excavates forgotten history about women, peace, and power. Her 2020 publications include "The Nineteenth Amendment and the U.S. ‘Women's Emancipation Policy’ in Post-World War II Occupied Japan: Going Beyond Suffrage," Akron Law Review: Vol. 53:2, Article 4 and “Discrimination Against Women, Rule of Law and Culture of Peace: Colombia’s ‘Peace’ Agreement,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Vol 44:1 Winter 2020, 97-120.
Linda Schlossberg received her PhD in English Literature from Harvard, where she now serves as Associate Director of Studies for WGS and teaches courses in gender, literature, and creative writing. Schlossberg was the recipient of a 2019 Somerville Arts Council grant and was awarded the Writer's Center 2016 Emerging Writer Fellowship. She is the author of the novel Life in Miniature and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including McSweeney’s, Conduit, and Post Road. She has published essays on nineteenth-century literature and culture and is the co-editor of Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion (NYU Press). Schlossberg is the recipient of a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, has and was twice selected by Harvard’s graduating classes as one of their “Favorite Professors.”