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On March 6, 2001, Converse College will commemorate the opening of a new millennium with an academic symposium entitled “Southern Women in the Twenty-First Century: A Historical Perspective for a New Millennium.” The public is invited to participate in this forum on Southern women’s lives in the twentieth century. This program is funded in part by a grant from the South Carolina Humanities Council.
All events in Daniel Recital Hall, Blackman Music Building
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Greetings
9:00 a.m. Southern Women in the Economic Sphere
Dr. Jacqueline
Jones, Truman Professor of American Civilization,
Brandeis University
9:30 a.m. Southern Women in the Political Arena
Dr. Sarah
Wilkerson-Freeman, Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University
10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Southern Women, Race, and Civil Rights
Dr. Barbara A.
Woods, South Carolina State University
11:00 a.m. Southern Women and Education
Dr. Amy McCandless,
Professor of History, College of Charleston
11:45 a.m. Lunch—Converse College Dining Hall
1 p.m. Rural Southern Women
Dr. Melissa Walker, Assistant
Professor of History, Converse College
1:30 p.m. Southern Women, Culture, and Society
Dr. Anne Goodwyn
Jones,Professor of English, University of Florida
2 p.m. Southern Women and Religion
Dr. Nancy Hardesty,
Professor of Religion, Clemson University
2:30 p.m. Southern Women and Feminism
Dr. Elizabeth Fox-
Genovese, Eleanore Raoul Professor of the Humanities,
Emory University
3:30 p.m. Summative Comments
Dr. Carol Bleser, Kathryn and
Calhoun Lemon Distinguished Professor of U.S. History
at Clemson University
4:15 p.m. Reception for audience members and scholars, Daniel
Lobby
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