“Women, Gender and the Law” Women’s Studies 2013-2014 Series, Neumiller Lecture Hall, Bradley Hall, 03/05/14 7:00 p.m. Constitutional Orphan: The 19th Amendment and Gender Equality

This lecture will focus on the years immediately preceding and following the passage and ratification of  the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution – the amendment that made it possible for women  to vote in all state and national elections. Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party members who  successfully lobbied Congress for passage of the Amendment in 1919 and 36 states for its ratification in  1920 believed that the Amendment would guarantee broad political and civil rights for women. The failure of  the 19th Amendment to be used as a jurisprudential cornerstone for equality lies, in part, in how state courts cabined the Amendment in the years following its ratification and narrowly construed its legal and political meaning. The result was that the Amendment became a constitutional orphan, whose power and promise in guaranteeing gender equality to American women lies dormant and unfulfilled.

Betty Friedan, the Feminine Mystique, and Women’s Liberation in Historical Context, Wyckoff Room, 03/12/14 7:00 p.m. Betty Friedan, “The Feminine Mystique” and Women’s Liberation in Historical Context. Participants: Tina  Stewart Brakebill (ISU), Stacy Cordery (Monmouth), Holly Kent (U of I Springfield); moderated by Dr. Stacey Robertson.

“The Great Migration,” Marty Theater. 6:30 pm Refreshments, 7:00 pm Panel Discussion, 03/24/14 7:00 p.m. “The Great Migration” – Between 1915 and 1970 more than 6 million African Americans moved out of the  South to cities across the Northeast, Midwest and West. This relocation – called “The Great Migration” – resulted in massive demographic shifts across the United States. These historic changes were chronicled in Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Discussion will be facilitated by Carol May and panel members include: Honorable Mary McDade, Kathryn Timmes, Eleanor Cowling, Ernestine Jackson, and Jean St. Julian.

Joyce Yen Lecture, Global Communication Center 126, 04/08/14 7:00 p.m. “Bias, Privilege, and Inclusion: Everyday Examples of Unconscious Discrimination” by Joyce Yen, Program. Research Manager for the University of Washington ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change.

“On Becoming a Leader: Women and the Legal Profession,” Room 116, Westlake Hall, 04/15/14 1:30 p.m. Bradley University President Joanne Glasser, “On Becoming a Leader: Women and the Legal Profession”

Christine Agaiby, Micheal Student Center Ballroom, 04/24/14 7:00 p.m. Join Christine Agaiby, Campaign Director of the Center for Wrongful Convictions of Youth at Northwestern  University School of Law in a discussion about wrongful convictions. Agaiby will discuss how the CWCY raises public awareness about the prevalence, causes, and social costs of wrongful convictions and how

mthey use casework and research to seek policy reforms aimed at preventing future wrongful convictions.