The Conference

Susan B. Anthony & the Struggle for Equal Rights
A Women's History Conference
March 30 – April 1, 2006
At the University of Rochester

This conference will be the first ever to focus in depth on Susan B. Anthony's life and times. Part of a year-long commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Anthony's death, the conference will address themes central to 19th century women's fight for equality. Historians from more than thirty colleges and universities will explore American Diversity, Reform Movements and Politics and Citizenship. Panelists will discuss the influence of Anthony contemporaries, including Jane Addams, Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Jacobs, and Belva Lockwood.

The conference will open on Thursday evening, March 30th at 7 pm, the History Department's annual Verne Moore Lecture, a keynote address by Ann Gordon, editor of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The address, "Knowing Susan B. Anthony: The Stories We Tell of a Life," will take place at the University's Rush Rhees Library and is free and open to the public.

For more information about the conference and conference registration, see the conference brochure (PDF) or call the Anthony Center at 585/275-8799.

The conference is co-sponsored by the University's History Department, Rush Rhees Library and Anthony Center for Women's Leadership.

The Goldberg-Berbeco Foundation, the Rochester Area Community Foundation's Lloyd Klos Historic Preservation Fund, SUNY at Brockport, and the Klainer Center for Women and Business and Department of History at SUNY Geneseo have provided special support.