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Nov
13
2019

How the Hidden Figures of the Nineteenth Century Used the Patent System to Fight for Civil Rights.

When: Wednesday, November 13, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Robert McCormick Hall, Room 195, 350 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: free

Contact: Nancy Cunniff   (847) 467-2294

Group: One Book One Northwestern

Co-Sponsor: Law School

Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity, Women 150

Description:

In this presentation and informal discussion, Professor Kara Swanson will discuss her most recent research on the role of the figure of the female inventor in the fight for civil rights in the Nineteenth Century. Her talk will cover the stakes that both white women activists and African American activists have identified in remembering and publicizing inventors from their communities as part of their political campaigns for full citizenship rights, as well as, the ways that African American female inventors (like African American suffragists) tended to disappear in these campaigns. A light lunch will be provided. Register here

Sponsored by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, BLSA, LLSA, and Diversity Coalition 

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