A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM

PROGRAM

June 19-20, 2003
New venue: Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor
Thomas Jefferson Building

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

WEDNESDAY - JUNE 18, 2003

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

"Tribute to Women's History" Film Series (Pickford Theater)
The Blot (1921, directed by Lois Weber) with piano accompanist

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THURSDAY - JUNE 19, 2003

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Information table open (Coolidge Auditorium foyer)

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Welcoming Remarks
Diane Nester Kresh, Director, Public Services Collections

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Panel One: Biographical Writings
Chair: Susan Ware, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Speakers:
           A'Lelia Bundles, ABC News           
           Allida M. Black, George Washington University
           Joanne Passet, Indiana University East

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Break

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm

Panel Two: Biographical Interpretations at Historic Sites, On Stage, and In Film
Chair: Susan Ware, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Speakers:
           Kristy Andersen, Bay Bottom News
           Esther White, Mount Vernon
           Virginia Yans, Rutgers University

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

Historical Performance: Biographical Interpretation
Lynn Schrichte, Actress and Independent Researcher

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Wine and Cheese Reception (Montpelier Room, LM 619)

6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

Dinner (on your own)

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Keynote: Women and the Law
Welcome: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress
Introductory Remarks: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States
Moderator: Wendy Webster Williams, Georgetown University Law Center
Speakers:
           Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
           Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School

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FRIDAY - JUNE 20, 2003

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Information table open (Coolidge Auditorium foyer)
Please allow time to pass through security.

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Welcoming Remarks
Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio

9:15 am - 10:45 am

Panel Three: Women and Political and Social Reform
Chair: Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Speakers:
           Barbara Clark Smith, Smithsonian Institution
           Gail G. Petri, Library of Congress Consultant

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel Four: Women's Private Lives
Chair: Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland, College Park
Speakers:
           Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles
           Kelly Schrum, George Mason University
           Valerie Tripp, Pleasant Company/The American Girls Collection

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Historical Performance: Women's Private Lives
Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, P.S., A Partnership

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Lunch (on your own)

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Panel Five: Women and Labor
Chair: Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
Speakers:
           Lisa Ades, Orchard Films
           Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University

3:45 pm - 4:10 pm

Historical Performance: Women and Labor
Sheila Kirschbaum and Sheli Turocy, Tsongas Industrial History Center

4:10 pm - 4:30 pm

Break

4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Closing Address
Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University and Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

"Tribute to Women's History" Film Series (Pickford Theater)
Miss America (2002) -- Introduced by filmmaker Lisa Ades
For You . . . Black Woman (1976)

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