• Date: January 9, 2008
• Location: Salem State College - Bertolon School of Business
  Room CC111
• Time:9AM - 3PM
Address and Directions



This seminar will explore the central issues and questions of "second wave feminism" with a particular focus on how issues of race, class and sexual orientation factored in. A major goal of this seminar will be to place second wave feminism at the CENTER of any historical study of 1945-1980 U.S. History.

This session will culminate in a showing of the documentary “Left on Pearl” with filmmaker and Union Institute and University Professor Rochelle Ruthchild. Ruthchild’s documentary chronicles the takeover of a building on the Harvard University campus by feminist activists in 1971. The ten day occupation of the administrative building is used as a lens through which second wave feminism and its effects can be explored.


• Dr. Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello
• Salem State College
  
  Dr. Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Dept. at Salem State College where she coordinates the American Studies concentration and teaches a range of classes in American Studies and cultural history with a focus on modernizing America. She holds a Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University and has been teaching and working in universities, museums and historic sites for more than a decade. Her research and scholarly work focuses on issues of community in American culture, ethinc and immigrant literatures, gender studies, and the connections between place and memory. She currently writes for “The Public Humanist,” a blog that focuses on the relationship between the humanities and public policy issues.

Address and Directions

Bertolon Business School
Central Campus
71 Loring Avenue
Salem, MA 01970

From Route 95
Take Exit 25A to Rt 114 East toward Salem
Turn left at Pulaski Street, then right at Gardner Street
Turn right at Margin and continue to follow Route 114 into downtown Salem
Turn left at Norman Street and follow Route 114, which becomes Lafayette Street. Follow for 1 mile.
At the traffic light, take a right on Loring Ave/1A South.
The Bertolon School of Business is on the left.

Map from Downtown Salem

Parking

Parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to the Bertolon School of Business. Please park against the fence and along the right perimeter of the parking lot (just past Campus Safety), in the spaces marked Commuter Parking.