Women’s History Symposium 2025
Join us for the third annual Women’s History Symposium on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at Jessup University.
This year’s symposium honors both Women’s History Month and Black History Month.
Professors Abbey Feely, Cameron Wilson, Liz Stanley, Dorisa Costelo and Rex Gurney will present on the life and work of lesser-known yet substantially influential women from both sides of the Atlantic.
In addition, Masterworks Chorale will present several musical selections in conjunction with Dr. Stanley’s presentation.
Refreshments will be served and the event is open to the public.
Join Jessup as we discover more about these fascinating women:
- One of the most talented painters of late Victorian England, Lilias Trotter, deserves to be a household name in art history circles. Yet she is today almost a complete unknown, having given up a promising career to move at her own expense to Tunisia to spread the Christian gospel among Muslims in North Africa.
- Lena McLin, the pastor, educator, composer and musician whose long career included associations with Thomas A. Dorsey, author of Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite gospel song Precious Lord, Take My Hand, composing operas and forming an independent opera company. Her later students included Chaka Khan and Jennifer Hudson.
- Lucinda Todd, the educator and homemaker behind Brown v. Board of Education, one of the most famous Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history, one that made racial segregation in public education unconstitutional.
- Chinese-born Mary Tape, who fought for full inclusion and civil rights for Asian Americans in California through her challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885.
- Anglo-Irish philosopher and theologian Frances Power Cobbe, whose writings were influential in the ultimately successful fight for women’s suffrage and animal rights in the United Kingdom.
Come for the stories. Stay for the inspiration. See you here!
