Symposium Overview

The 2nd biennial symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture will take place October 26-October 27. All events are free and open to the public. Registration will occur on-site.

• Keynote address by Feminist Majority Foundation president Eleanor Smeal (4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 26).
• Six break-out sessions with a diverse group of feminist scholars and activists from the Triangle community and beyond. Topics include:
  • Feminism in Academic Institutions
  • Modes and Methods of Feminist Publishing
  • Politics of Identity in Modern U.S. Social Movements
  • Documenting Contemporary Social Movements
  • Religion, Ritual, and the Women's Movement
  • Film Screening: "I Was a Teenage Feminist"
• Planned speakers include: Sallie Bingham, Sarah Dyer, Paula Kamen, and Therese Shechter.

Vision

This year's theme is intergenerational and transgenerational feminisms. We envision bringing together leaders and other contributors to the Women's Movement from the 1960's to the present to explore the movement's complex, and often controversial, genealogy and to map its multifaceted future.

Why The Sallie Bingham Center?

• The Sallie Bingham Center houses some of the foremost collections documenting the U.S. Women's Movement from the 1960's to the present day.
• The center has a long history of providing a venue for conversations that map the intersection of feminist scholarship and activism.
• Few recent symposiums on generational feminisms have taken place in the southeast. The symposium at the Sallie Bingham Center will provide an opportunity for a larger group of southeastern feminist scholars and activists to participate in this dialogue.

History

At the end of our 2003 symposium, "Abortion: Research, Ethics and Activism," we resolved to organize a symposium every other year on a theme emanating from our collections and coinciding with a topic of current conversation amongst our constituency within and outside of the academy.

Advisory Group

The staff of the Sallie Bingham Center would like to thank the following advisory group members for their generous donations of time, expertise, and enthusiasm:

Betsy Alden (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Public Policy, Duke University); Nathalie Basile (Baldwin Scholar, Duke University); Margaret Brill (Reference, Perkins Library, Duke University); Ruth Bryan (Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University); Andrea Dinamarco (Baldwin Scholar, Duke University); Leslee Farish (Carolina Women's Center, UNC-Chapel Hill); Nancy Gibbs (Acquisitions, Duke University); Karen Glynn (Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University); Jill Katte (University Archives, Duke University); Megan Lewis (Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University); Caroline Light (Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, Duke University); Jean O'Barr (Women's Studies Program, Duke University); Danette Pachtner (Lilly Library, Duke University); Joan Petit (former Bingham Center intern, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill); Lynn Richardson (North Carolina Room, Durham County Library, Durham); Colleen Scott (Baldwin Scholar, Duke University); Jeanette Stokes (Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, Durham); Cassidy Pratt Sugimoto (School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill); Donna Zapf (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Duke University); Dee Wilson (Collection Development, Perkins Library, Duke University).

Sponsors

The 2nd Biennial Symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture is made possible with the generous support of the following Duke University affiliates:

President's Office, Provost's Office; Dean's Office; Social Sciences; Duke Athletics; Institute for Critical U.S. Studies; Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies; Pratt School of Engineering; Duke Law School; University Libraries; Program in Women's Studies; Baldwin Scholars Program; Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life; Duke Divinity School; Duke Women's Center; Master of Arts in Liberal Studies; Department of History; Mary Lou Williams Center; Multicultural Center; Center for Race Relations; and Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.

For More Information: please contact Laura Micham, Director of the Bingham Center, laura.m@duke.edu.