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-3.25in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Attn: SC libraries</span><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.25in;text-indent:-3.25in'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'>Pass this along to anyone you know with
an interest in SC history.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.25in;text-indent:-3.25in'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>May 6,
2009
Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.25in;text-indent:-3.25in'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>HIST137
Phone: 803-777-5400; E-mail: <a href="mailto:peggy@mailbox.sc.edu">peggy@mailbox.sc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>University of South Carolina invites public to
celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>history and lives of South Carolina women June 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>A public symposium celebrating the
lives of South Carolina women is set for Thursday, June 4, at the University of
South Carolina and is expected to draw scholars from around the world who have
written about Palmetto State women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>Hosted by the university’s College of
Arts and Sciences, “South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times,” will take
place in the Daniel-Mickel Center on the eighth floor of the Moore School of
Business. The daylong event begins at 8:30 a.m. and will feature concurrent
sessions with dozens of mini-presentations on the lives of notable South
Carolina women, from the Native American “Lady of Cofitachequi,” who reigned in
the 1500s, to S.C. Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>The event is co-sponsored by the
Southeastern Institute for Women and Politics and the Alliance for Women. The
symposium is open and intended for the public; lunch is optional. Fees are $20
for registration and parking or $40, which includes lunch. Reservations can be
made on line at <a href="http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/symposium/">http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/symposium/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>The symposium coincides with the release
of the first installment in the three-volume anthology, “South Carolina Women:
Their Lives and Times,” co-edited by Dr. Marjorie Spruill and Dr. Valinda
Littlefield at the university and Dr. Joan Marie Johnson of Northeastern
Illinois University. The anthology is being published by University of Georgia
Press. Throughout the symposium, authors will bring their biographical entries
to life through lively accounts of South Carolina women who were patriots,
slaves, plantation mistresses, abolitionists, suffragists, preservationists,
mill workers, World War II shipyard welders, civil-rights leaders, artists,
scientists, politicians and even a stock-car driver. A number of the women
whose stories will be told are expected to attend and be recognized for their
role in the history of the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>The symposium on South Carolina women
will take place just before a major conference, the Eighth Southern Conference
on Women’s History, the triennial conference of the Southern Association for
Women Historians. The conference begins the evening of June 4 and runs through
Saturday, June 6. The gathering will feature women’s history scholars from the
United States and Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>Individuals who attend the South
Carolina Women’s History symposium on June 4 are invited to attend a dinner and
lecture that evening, the opening events for the two-day conference. Featured
speakers at the 7 p.m. lecture <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:150%'>are Dr. Glenda Gilmore of Yale University, and Dr. Patricia
Sullivan of the University of South Carolina. Both are leading historians of
African-American history who will discuss women in the civil-rights movement.
The dinner, which will take place in the Russell House University Union, is $25
per person, with online registration at the same Web site: <a
href="http://www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh">www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>The public also is invited to
register for and attend other sessions of the three – day Southern Conference
on Women’s History. Sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including “Gone
with the Wind” and southern identity, the teaching of Southern history outside
the South, black women educators and activism, female religious leaders,
Southern women’s diaries, women in the business in the early American South,
women in post-Civil War Appalachia, early Virginian women and feminism,
community organizing and gaining recognition for women’s history sites.
Archivists from across South Carolina will conduct workshops on teaching and
research using their collections, and the university’s South Caroliniana
Library will host an open house for conference attendees. There also will be a
women’s history tour of Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%'>For more information on the “South
Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times” symposium on June 4 or the Southern
Conference on Women’s History June 4 – 6, go to the Web site: <a
href="http://www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh">www.saeu.sc.edu/reg/sawh</a>, or contact
the university’s conferences and event services staff at 803-777-2927 or via
e-mail at <a href="mailto:confs@mailbox.sc.edu">confs@mailbox.sc.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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