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Looking forward to seeing you for the symposium. Don’t forget to register so you receive the connection information, even if attending just a single session.

The Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and In Her Own Right project team invite you to join us in exploring a century of women’s activism leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The symposium celebrates more than 5 years of work on the In Her Own Right project. 

Please visit our website for event details and registration. 

Program Overview (schedule subject to change)

Thursday, March 18

• 9:00 - 10:00am Opening Plenary: Portals to the documentary history of women's activism
• 10:15 - 11:30am Friendship and Relationships Between Women
• 11:45am - 12:15am Professional Women
• 2:00 - 3:00pm
• Track 1: Peacemakers
• Track 2: Women in Politics
• 3:15 - 4:15pm
• Track 1: Preserving Anna Julia Cooper's Legacy Through Her Archives
• Track 2: Alice Paul at the University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, March 18, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Keynote Speaker: Martha S. Jones
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University

Friday, March 19

• 9:00 - 10:30am Perspectives on Suffrage
• 10:45 - 11:45am Philanthropy with Strings
• 12:00 - 1:00pm Antislavery Women
• 2:00 - 3:30pm
• Track 1: Prominence and memory
• Track 2: El Voto Femenino: Women and Suffrage in New Mexico’s Past and Present
• 3:45 - 4:45pm
• Track 1: Lives Recreated in the Reconstruction Era
• Track 2: Social Change in the WWI Era
• 5:00 - 5:30pm Wrap-up and virtual toast to our presenters and supporters

Please visit our website for event details and registration. 

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