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Summer Conversational Series Schedule of Proceedings

The Divining Power of Women: Louisa May Alcott and the Fight for Woman Suffrage

Virtual Program     Sunday - Thursday     July 11 - 15, 2021


Sunday, July 11th

Time:  Forthcoming  

"Women, Diversity, and Reform:  A Conversation"

Panelists:  Forthcoming 



Monday, July 12th

10:00 - 11:00 am 

Barbara Berenson

 “Massachusetts Leaders in the Woman Suffrage Movement”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Kristi Martin

 “Woman in the Nineteenth Century:

Divine Nature and Women’s Rights in Concord” 


12:15 - 1:00 pm

Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm

Todd Richardson

 “Louisa May Alcott, The Woman’s Journal, and the Pilgrimage to Concord” 


Tuesday, July 13th

  10:00 - 11:00 am

Diane Duray

“Black Suffragists:  Separate But Equal?”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Lorraine Tosiello

“Louisa May Alcott’s New York Circle:

Social Activism, Women’s Rights, and the Suffragist Cause”


12:15 - 1:00 pm

Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm

Marianne Monson

“Sister-Wives and Suffragists”


Wednesday, July 14th

10:00 - 11:00 am

Melissa Cybulski

“The Woman Question:

Both Sides of the Suffrage Debate in Longmeadow, Massachusetts”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Susan Gottshall

“Principle, Politics and Powerlessness:

Enabling, Silencing Women’s Whispers of Revolution”


12:15 - 1:00 pm

Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm

Michael Barnett

“Margaret Fuller Divines and Empowers Women for Equality and the Vote”


Thursday, July 15th

10:00 - 11:00 am

Kristina West

“The New Woman and The Old-Fashioned Girl:

Reading Women’s Rights in Alcott’s Works for Children”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Adriana Lanzi

“Eva Peron:

At the Heart of Women’s Suffrage in Argentina”


12:15 – 1:00 pm

Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm

Cathlin Davis

“Women’s Right to Labor:

How Alcott’s Fiction Lays the Groundwork for Women’s Suffrage”

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