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We organized our first annual Chicago Women’s History Conference exploring the theme Past and Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women on Saturday March 21, 2025 and the theme for this year was Women’s Health Justice: Recovering the Past to Shape the Future.

Each year we have partnered with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Evanston History Center and the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University to co-create and design the program from a open call with our community.

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Our Conferences

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    Past and Present Strategies to Advance the Rights for Women

    We hosted twelve presentations and three workshops at Roosevelt University on Saturday March 21, 2025

    Conference 2025
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    Women's Health Justice: Recovering the Past to Shape the Future

    We hosted nine panels and presentations and three practice workshops throughout the day from 9:30am - 5:30pm at Roosevelt University on Saturday March 22, 2026

    Conference 2026
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    Chicago's Sisterhood: Women in the Arts

    Save the date for Saturday March 20, 2027 for a conference, convening on Chicago Women Artists from 1867 and on.

    Call for proposals will be announced in May 2026.

    RFP Coming Soon

  • "During Keynote remarks I felt a strong connection to Dr RMB's comments that we are whole, and only need to find ourselves, not build or remake, but discover. That is a powerful re-framing and I am inspired."

    —Former Attendee

  • "A core group stayed together and step by step achieved major change. It was a sobering lesson to younger women to hear the effort required over a long period of time."

    —Former Attendee

  • "The keynote presentation was just wonderful. Both of the workshops that I attended (DV and CWLU) were excellent, the presentations were very good, and elicited wonderful, rich and invigorating cross generational discussion.."

    —Former Attendee