October 1: Votes for Women! Celebrating a Century of Woman Suffrage in California

VOTES FOR WOMEN!

Celebrating a Century of Woman Suffrage in California

October 1, 2011

10:00 a.m. to noon

Martha Wheelock

Creating the Story of California Woman Suffrage

Filmmaker, Ishtar Films and Wild West Women, Inc.

Co-producer, director and co-writer, California Women Win the Vote!

Barbara Babcock

The Suffrage Struggle in California – as Lived by Clara Foltz

Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford Law School

Author, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (Stanford University Press, 2011)

Founder, Women’s Legal History website

Eileen V. Wallis

Strategies for Success: The Suffrage Campaign in Southern California

Associate Professor, History Department, California Polytechnic University, Pomona

Author, Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 (University of Nevada Press, 2011)

Moderator: Donna C. Schuele

Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

Registration: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Program: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Lunch: 12:00 p.m.

Bring a sack lunch or buy a lunch ticket at registration (limited supply).

The Huntington Library Women's Studies Seminar is free of charge and

no reservation is required.

Attendees will receive complimentary admission to the grounds and museums.

Parking is free.

Please distribute and post this announcement widely.

To access the program flyer in PDF, please click here: https://sites.google.com/site/hlwssflyers/flyers

May 21: Telling Our Stories: Life Into Art

Join us for the final Huntington Women's Studies Seminars event of the year, the always popular writers' panel.

Telling Our Stories: Life into Art
May 21, 2011

Sandra Tsing Loh, writer/performer
Sandra Tsing Loh is the author of A Year in Van Nuys, Aliens in America, Depth Takes a Holiday, and If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now. She has written and performed in solo shows, including “Mother on Fire” and "Sugar Plum Fairy.” She is a regular commentator on NPR.

Michele Serros, writer
Michele Serros is the author of Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard, How to be a Chicana Role Model, and two Young Adult novels: Honey Blonde Chica and ¡Scandalosa! A Honey Blonde Chica Novel.

Mary Trunk, documentary filmmaker
Mary Trunk is the director of The Watershed and Plain Art. Her newest documentary (currently in post-production), Lost in Living, focuses on women artists as mothers. She is a co-owner of Ma and Pa Films.

Registration: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Program: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch: 12:00 p.m.

Bring a sack lunch or buy a sandwich lunch ticket at registration (limited supply).
THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED.
Seminar participants may be admitted to museum free of charge.

March 5: Women and Progressive Politics in California

Women and the Tradition of Progressive Politics
in Twentieth-Century California

5 March 2011
10 a.m. to 12 noon

Maria de Lopez, Clubwomen, and Social Networks in Suffrage-Era Los Angeles
Eileen V. Wallis
Assistant Professor, Department of History, California Polytechnic University, Pomona

Women in the Inner Halls of Politics: California's Commission on the Status of Women and
Activism Against Sex Discrimination, 1965-1975
Carol Cini, Ph.D.
Instructor, History Department, De Anza College

Deep Roots: Francisca Flores and Chicana Political Activism in Los Angeles, 1960-1980
Marisela R. Chavez
Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills

Moderator: Donna C. Schuele
Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration, and the program is free to all in attendance.

Save the date for our next program, 21 May 2011.

January 29: Women and Rhetoric

Women and Rhetoric:

A Roundtable Discussion

Saturday, 29 January 2011

9:30 a.m. to 12 noon

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Sappho’s Garden

Susan Jarratt

Professor, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Rhetoric, Writing, and Radical Feminism in the Late 1960s

Jacqueline Rhodes

Professor, English, CSU-San Bernardino

The Difference Between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull:

Sarah Palin’s Rhetorical Performance at the 2008 Republican Convention

Amy L. Heyse

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, CSU-Long Beach

Katie L. Gibson

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, CSU-Long Beach

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Program begins at 10am; the seminar reception table opens at 9:30ish. At the end of the program at noon, we meet on the patio for lunch together. You may bring your own lunch, or purchase a sandwich lunch at reception (limited supply). There is no pre-registration, and the program is free to all in attendance.

Other events of interest at the Huntington

The following events are NOT programs of the Huntington Women's Studies Seminar, but they are other free programs at the Huntington, with topics we think many in our audience might find interesting.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture “Wild Unrest” Revealed: Pasadena and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
Nov. 9 (Tuesday)
7:30 p.m. Free

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a harrowing story of a woman’s descent into madness, fueled by the author’s own experience. Helen Horowitz, professor of history at Smith College and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, considers Gilman’s life in Pasadena and the making of the story. No reservations required.

History of Science Lecture Series - Science, Medicine, and the Woman Question: The Activism of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi
Dec. 2 (Thursday)
7:30 p.m. Free

The intersection of science and women's rights activism will be explored in this lecture by Carla Bittel, professor of history at Loyola Marymount University. Bittel will discuss the life and work of 19th-century New York physician Mary Putnam Jacobi, focusing on how Jacobi used biological knowledge to advance women's participation in the professions. No reservation required.

Talk and Book Signing: Helen of Pasadena
Dec. 12 (Sunday)
2 p.m. Free

Writer and talk show host Lian Dolan, one of radio’s Satellite Sisters, discusses her new novel, Helen of Pasadena, which takes place in and around The Huntington. Dolan, a longtime Huntington Member, will reveal her inspiration for a key plot device in this lighthearted romantic comedy. A book signing follows. No reservations required.

November 20: Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine

Women’s Studies and Ms. Magazine
Bringing Ms. Magazine to the Classroom
and Feminist Scholarship to Ms.

A round-table discussion between

Katherine Spillar
Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine

Ina Coleman
Managing Director, Ms. in the Classroom

Dianne Bartlow
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, CSU Northridge

Audrey Bilger
Associate Professor of Literature and Faculty Director of the Writing Center, Claremont McKenna College

Moderated by
Karon Jolna
Chair, Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminars
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

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Saturday, November 20, 2010
9:30- 10am – Registration
10-12noon – Program
12noon – Lunch on the terrace
Huntington lunches $12-14 at registration or bring a brown bag

THE PROGRAM IS FREE AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED
Save the date for our next program: January 29, 2011

Dates for 2010-2011 Seminars!

We can't unveil any programs or themes yet, but here are the dates for the four seminars this year:

November 20
January 29
March 5 and
May 21

Remember that all programs are Saturday mornings, 10am-12noon, with registration before and lunch afterwards on the garden patio. Stay tuned for more information soon about program specifics.