The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House celebrated the 21st season of its popular Monday Lecture Series in 2023-2024. The line-up featured nine guest speakers covering a range of topics inspired by the life, work, and legacy of Susan B. Anthony. This season was presented online and in-person, with each presentation offered to registered guests at 1pm EST.
DATES, SPEAKERS, AND TOPICS
September 11, 2023: Jennifer Lloyd, PhD, historian, “More about Susan B. Anthony II”
October 16, 2023: Kenneth Frederick, PhD, Trustee at the George Eastman Museum, “Peggy Stewart (1887-1967)”, internationally acclaimed portrait photographer from Canandaigua, New York
November 13, 2023: Jennifer Haines, Museum Educator at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, “Women and Woodhicks: A Historic Look at Women in the PA Lumber Industry”
December 11, 2023: Derrick Pratt, Director of Education & Public Programming at the Erie Canal Museum, “Waterway of Change: Women and the Erie Canal”
January 8, 2024: Allie Hargrave, Haudenosaunee scholar and speaker, “Haudenosaunee Women in Our Societies”
March 11, 2024: Arien Rozelle, M.S., APR, Assistant Professor at St. John Fisher University, “Making Headlines: The NAWSA National Press Bureau”
April 15, 2024: Nicole Hamilton, Collections Manager, Sing Sing Prison Museum, “Doing Time with Eliza Farnham in the Mt Pleasant Women’s Prison at Sing Sing”
May 13, 2024: Deborah Hughes, President & CEO at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, “‘Change It!’ for Adults: an exploration of the ways which emerging challenges make Susan B. Anthony’s life and work powerfully relevant to leaders today”
June 10, 2024: Andrew Wender Cohen, Professor of History at Syracuse University, and Carol Faulkner, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Maxwell School, “Enforcing Gender at the Polls: Transing Voters and Women’s Suffrage before the American Civil War”