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2011–2012 Other Events

October

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Playing for the World: The 1904 Fort Shaw Indian Girls Basketball Team (2009), directed by John Twiggs and Alison Perkins

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, October 13, 2011
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“‘Paying for “Freedom” with Her Health’: Rising Life Expectancy, Women’s Aging, and American Youth Culture”

Helen Veit, Michigan State University, with commentary by Brooke Blower, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

November

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Once in Afghanistan (2008), directed by Jill Vickers and Jody Bergedick

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

December

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Paris Was a Woman (1996), directed by Greta Schiller

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, December 8, 2011
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Logic of the Early Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”

EVENT POSTPONED. New Date TBA.
Jennifer Morgan
, New York University, with commentary by Linda Heywood, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

Thursday, December 15, 2011
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
"Book Sale 2011"

9:30 a.m.–6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

February

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
In the Name of Love (2003), directed by Shannon O'Rourke

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, February 9, 2012
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Performing Civil Rights: Black Women Entertainers, the ‘Long’ Civil Rights Movement, and Second Wave Feminism”

Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark, with commentary by Daphne Brooks RI ’11, Princeton University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

March

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010), directed by Deann Borshay Liem

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

April

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
3 Américas (2007), directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, April 12, 2012
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Black Milk: Maternal Bodies, Wet Nursing, and the Value of Black Women’s Invisible Labor in the Antebellum Slave Market”

Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Rutgers University, with commentary by Walter Johnson RI ’11, Harvard University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

May

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
God Gave Her a Mercedes Benz (1993), directed by Katia Forbert Petersen and SFINX Film/TV

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

June

Sunday, June 3, 2012 – Friday, June 8, 2012
A Seminar Taught by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Reading Historic Cookbooks: A Structured Approach

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Applications will be accepted through April 27, 2012. A participation fee is required.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Black Girl (1966), directed by Ousmane Sembene

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647