G+JI Annual Report 2020-2021

Girlhood (It’s Complicated) – A Conversation
Behind
the Curators of the National Museum of American
with
exhibition explores the history of girlhood in the United States and it’s
large
The curators took us on a private tour and explained the complex
complicated!
behind the various themes, stories and artifacts. This event received over
choices
RSVP and attracted over 100 attendees. The feedback from the audience was
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positive. This discussion was moderated by Marcia Chatelain,
overwhelmingly
of History and African American Studies. The speakers included Mireya
Professor
Curator and Associate Professor of History; Kathleen Franz, Curator Division
Loza,
Work and Industry, NMAH; Nancy Bercaw, Curator and Chair of the Political
of
Division, NMAH; Sam Vong, Curator of Asian Pacific American History,
History
NMAH.
Flower – Race, Gender, and the Suffrage
Bitter
Movement
hosted a screening and conversation about Bitter Flower, a play by Jennifer
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Fink, and that explores the relationship between two major figures of the
Natalya
movement, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams. The powerful dialogue
suffrage
the racism of the white suffrage movement and the undervalued work
examines
Haffaf, G JI Program Director. The panelists included the playwriphe,
Melyssa
Natalya Fink, Author and English Professor; Marcia Chatelain, History
Jennifer
III and Ryan Pagels.The play was part of the Burning Coal Theatre’s 19th
Carlisle
Project a collection of short plays written on the passage of the 19th
Amendment
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G JI and the Arts
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its inception, the G JI has held conversations about how theater
Since
and art exhibitions center and explore issues of race,
performances
gender, class, and sexuality.
April 22, 2021
History Exhibition
had the privilege to host four curators of the Girlhood (It’s Complicated)
We
shown at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian. This
exhibition,
Co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
October 22, 2020
and erasure of Black suffragists. A post-screening conversation on past and
present intersectional feminism followed. The conversation was moderated by
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Professor; and Victoria Nourse, Law Professor.
Bitter Flower was written by Jennifer Natalya Fink and directed by Lawrence
Amendment 100 years ago and its ongoing impact.
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