Women as History-makers in California
59th California History Institute
University of the Pacific
Preliminary Program
The 59th California History Institute symposium will look at the role women played in shaping California, from notable figures to immigrants. The symposium also will explore how females have affected the state's environmental movement. The symposium will start Friday with a field trip to the California State Museum and California Hall of Fame, where 120 notable women in the state will be discussed. The Suffragate movement also will be analyzed. Lunch will be provided.
That will be followed Saturday by a series of roundtable discussions about women, including a look at the role the immigrant women played in California, especially Chinese female immigrants. There also will be a discussion on women and environmental justice. This is the second symposium since 1948 to focus on women in the Golden State's history.
Since 1948, the University of the Pacific has hosted the California History Institute, established by Rockwell D. Hunt as a spring conference sponsored by the California History Foundation. The John Muir Center was created in 1989 to honor California's most famous environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club. The University holds the John Muir Papers in its Library's Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections.
Friday, March 23
- 9:30-3:45 Field Trip by coach to the California State Museum/California Hall of Fame; for-fee event limited to 50 passengers. Tour of "California's Remarkable Women" highlighting 120 notable women; and "Women and the Vote."
- 4:00-6:00 Welcoming Reception, Grace Covell, Campus
Saturday, March 24 Grace Covell Hall, campus
- 8:30-9:15 Registration and Coffee
- 9:15 Welcome and Introductions
- 9:30 Historiography of Women in California History
Edith Sparks, Senior Associate Dean, The College & Jessica Weiss, California State University, East Bay - 10:00-11:45 Women in Stockton's History
Caroline Cox, Department of History, Pacific, Moderator
Alice Van Ommeren Stockton local historian
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University
Emil Guillermo, Journalist
Michael Wurtz, Archivist, University of the Pacific, Comment - 11:45-12:40 Lunch (Buffet in Grace Covell)
- 12:40-1:20 PM Keynote
Judy Yung , Emerita, American Studies, U. C. Santa Cruz
Author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1995); Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006); and (with Erika Lee) Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010) - 1:30-2:30 Student Panel on Women in California History
Christiana Oatman, Pacific
Devon Clayton, Pacific
Michelle Khoury Santa Clara University - 2:45 Women and Environmental Justice
Alison Alkon, Department of Sociology, Pacific, Moderator
Nancy Unger, Santa Clara University
Tracy Perkins, U.C. Santa Cruz
Teresa DeAnda, Central Valley Coordinator, California for Pesticide Reform - 4:30 What We Have Learned; Jennifer Helgren, Pacific
- 4:45-5:30 Reception
Fees
University Faculty & Staff: $30 to attend paper sessions, the luncheon, and the receptions on March 23 and 24
High School, Undergraduate and Graduate Students: $25 to attend paper sessions, the luncheon, and the receptions on March 23 and 24
General Admission: $40 to attend paper sessions, the luncheon, and the receptions on March 23 and 24.
The field trip to Sacramento on March 23 is $40 for all attendees, which does not include lunch.
For additional information please e mail: Juliann Hilton 
Email or call John Muir Center 209 946-2527
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| Sponsored by: | Conference Co-Organizers | |
| Department of History John Muir Center Holt-Atherton Special Collections California Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Ethnic Studies Program Gender Studies Program Rockwell Hunt Endowment R. Coke Wood Endowment |
Jennifer Helgren, Associate Professor of History Corrie Martin, Director, Women's Resource Center, Student Life Edith Sparks, Senior Associate Dean, The College W. R. Swagerty, Director, John Muir Center |
THE CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE and JOHN MUIR CENTER