Chicago Women’s History Conference 2025
Theme: Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women
Registration
The Chicago Women's History Center is honored to host “Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women”, a conference that took place on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Roosevelt University. This conference brought scholars, researchers, and advocates for a full day of panels, workshops, and discussions dedicated to the historical and contemporary strategies that have shaped the advancement of women’s rights.
Registration included a full year of membership to Chicago Women’s History Center.
To view the full Conference Program and read the abstracts:
About the Conference
Chicago Women’s History Center worked in partnership with Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), Evanston History Center and Women & Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago to host the conference on Saturday March 22, 2025. We had additional sponsors of WILPF U.S., Skyline Village, Chicago Hyde Park Village and Lake Forest College who supported eighteen scholarship places for early-career student historians, researchers and writers to attend the conference. The Keynote Presentation was by Jamila Woods followed by one day of fifteen panels, presentations, roundtables, and workshops from 9:30am - 5:00pm finishing with a plenary performance by Pinqy Ring and her mentees who created a responsive poem in reflection of the day.
The scholarship attendees are engaged in the documentation process of the Conference and these will be shared with the community via a blog on the website.. .
Please email chicagowomenshistory@gmail.com if you have questions and wish to partner in 2026.