Chicago Women’s History Conference 2026
Women’s Health Justice: Recovering the Past to Shape our Future
Saturday, March 21, 2026 at Roosevelt University
About the Conference
The Chicago Women's History Center is honored to host the second annual conference on Chicago Women’s History at Roosevelt University on Saturday, March 21, 2026. The theme for this year is Women’s Health Justice: Recovering the Past to Shape our Future and the conference has been created from an open call with our community and designed collectively with our community partners.
The Keynote Presentation for this year is by Rashayla Marie Brown with twelve panels, presentations, and workshops by experts in our community whose research is focused on Women’s Health Justice. The three strands of programming include: Recovering Women’s Health History; NewParadigms in Women’s Health; Past Resources for Future Building; and three workshops called Embodied Practices.
We will also have author tables, exhibitions by Chicago Metro Fair,
Breakfast and lunch will be provided along with tea and coffee served all day in the library. Registration includes a year of annual membership to CWHC that includes free author and membership events throughout the year.
Current members who renewed annual dues on January 1, 2026 or after have received a membership discount code - please check your emails.
Our Community Partners
Chicago Women’s History Center is delighted to partner for a second year with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), Evanston History Center, and the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University to co-design Chicago Women’s History Conference. We are also thrilled to partner with DePaul University who are designing the conference material.
We are delighted to announce additional sponsors; include Reva and David Logan Foundation, Skyline Village Chicago, Hyde Park Village, Women Take Action and individual sponsors who are supporting scholarship places for early-career student historians, researchers, scholars, and writers to attend the conference. Sponsors support two scholarships plus one institutional attendance. To be a sponsor please click here.
The scholarship application is open and closes on March 11, 2026.
Please email chicagowomenshistoryatgmail.com if you have questions and wish to partner in 2026.
Registration Closes: March 17, 2026
Scholarship Applications are Open
Scholarship submissions close on March 11, 2026 and will be notified by March 16, 2026
If you have renewed your membership since January 01, 2026 please check your emails for a special membership discount code.
Be a Sponsor of Chicago Women’s History Conference
To be included in the program please submit logo and paragraph by March 11, 2026
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Conference Design 2026 by Anna McCauley and Jadyn Milem as part of a partnership with DePaul University under the supervision of Heather Snyder Quinn