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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Lectures - Submission Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Submission Deadline: March 10th\, 2021     \nEmerging Scholars Lecture Event: May 10th\, 2021 \nThe Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 10 for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event\, to be held by Zoom on May 10\, 2021. The Victorian Society New York\, founded in 1966\, supports scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including architecture\, literature\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, immigration\, economics\, politics\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included 19th-century tableaux vivants\, cookbook recipes revealing artistic gluttony\, and women’s alleged hatpin savagery. \nFor the live event on May 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm\, VSNY will bring in three current students or recent grads to each give a 20-minute Zoom presentation and then field questions. Send 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs by March 10 to info@vicsocny.org. \nSpeakers will receive a free VSNY year membership ($30 value)\, and their talks will be recorded and made publicly available on VSNY’s website.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lectures-submission-deadline/
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SUMMARY:“Man With Glass Eye Seeks Woman With Glass Eye”: New York’s personal ads
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\n\nHistorian Francesca Beauman\, author of Matrimony\, Inc.: from personal ads to swiping right\, a story of America looking for love (2020)\, explores the history of personal ads in New York. \nOne Thursday morning in 1861\, a woman named Ethel placed an ad for a husband in the New York Herald. She explained that she was “compelled to adopt this mode of opening a correspondence owing to the strict surveillance under which she is placed at home.” The successful candidate needed to be under twenty-five and “possess a fine intellectual countenance\, be of an agreeable disposition\, and above all have a love of a mustache.” Clearly\, if you’ve ever used a dating app or website\, then you have more in common than you know with nineteenth century New Yorkers. \nWhilst researching her latest book\, Beauman has uncovered hundreds of never-before-seen personal ads\, which together offer startlingly fresh insight into American life as the population grew and the cities expanded. In this talk\, she will share some of her favorites from the past 250 years or so\, along the way helping to answer the age-old question: what do men and women look for in each other? And how has this changed (or not!) over the past 250 years? \n  \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/man-with-glass-eye-seeks-woman-with-glass-eye-new-yorks-personal-ads/
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SUMMARY:THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, March 17\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nDOCTORS BLACKWELL looks closely at the sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell\, English immigrants who\, in quick succession\, became the first and third women\, respectively\, in the U.S. to earn medical degrees—and who\, in 1857\, founded the very first hospital staffed by women\, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. \nTenacious visionaries\, Elizabeth and Emily obtained their medical degrees despite the numerous and considerable challenges before them. Elizabeth’s entry into this previously all-male profession was called “a farce\,” “the nefarious process of amalgamation\,” and was met with bursts of laughter and derision. The dean of one school summed up a popular fear among male practitioners\, who were worried that female patients would only want to see female doctors: “You cannot expect us to furnish you with a stick to break our heads with.” Attempts by both sisters to get into medical colleges were either denied or met with toothless acceptance—the faculty at Geneva Medical College left the ultimate decision of whether to accept Elizabeth up to the students\, who only agreed as a sort of fraternity prank. \nThe Blackwells’ ambitions extended far beyond themselves. Whereas Elizabeth strove to stand alongside her male allies as an exceptional woman who had proved herself their equal\, Emily yearned to strip her gender and make her way in anonymity. Nimura writes of Elizabeth\, “caring for suffering individuals had never been the engine that drove her. In becoming a doctor\, she meant to heal humanity.” And as Emily once reminded Elizabeth\, the point was “to be not the first female M.D.s\, but the first of legions.” \nNow all but forgotten or watered down in children’s books\, the sisters (especially Elizabeth\, deemed the “lioness”) made national and international news when they earned their degrees and began practicing\, and were consistently trailed by whispers and curious looks. They were written up in the New York Times; mocked in Punch\, the London satirical paper; and they and their work were profiled in leading medical and women’s journals. What’s more\, their lives intersected with some of the most notable figures of their era. Florence Nightingale\, Lucy Stone\, Horace Greeley\, Henry Ward Beecher\, Lady Byron\, Henry Whitney Bellows\, and Dorothea Dix made important introductions for them and/or supported their endeavors publicly. Elizabeth even won a private meeting with President Abraham Lincoln. \nTHE DOCTORS BLACKWELL illuminates these two remarkable women—in all their complicated\, contradictory brilliance—whose profound influence changed the medical profession forever. \nJanice P. Nimura—an independent historian whose last book\, Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back\, was a New York Times’s Notable book of 2015—is the winner of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-doctors-blackwell-how-two-pioneering-sisters-brought-medicine-to-women/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Colman Smith’s New York
DESCRIPTION:Tue\, March 30\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nPamela Colman Smith’s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide\, but her many other contributions as an artist\, folklorist\, editor\, and suffragist have received relatively little attention until recently. She was active from the 1890s through the 1920s\, during the critical transition from the Victorian to Modernist eras. Drawing on new findings from her literary biography\, Pamela Colman Smith: Artist\, Feminist & Mystic\, Elizabeth Foley O’Connor will share new details about Colman Smith’s life and work\, especially her time in New York. Although she spent most of her life in England\, Colman Smith was descended from two well-connected Brooklyn families. She attended the Pratt Instituted and launched her career as an artist and illustrator in Manhattan and was the first non-photographic artist that Alfred Stieglitz exhibited at his 291 galleries on Fifth Avenue. Colman Smith was well-known in the City’s artistic community and often gave several performances of Jamaican Anansi tales at venues around the City\, including a memorable performance for Mark Twain. \nElizabeth Foley O’Connor is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies program at Washington College. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/pamela-colman-smiths-new-york/
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