Upcoming Programs Toward a More Perfect History for the Monday, March 11, 7 p.m. Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Allison Smith st The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center 21 Century 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m. T.J. Demos The Haunting: Poverty Pornography, Humanitarianism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Renzo Martens’s Enjoy Poverty (2008) Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. The Cooper Union School of Art Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square (at the corner of 7th Street and 3rd Avenue)

Friday, March 15, 4 p.m. — Sunday, March 17, 5 p.m. The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Cuba Various locations, see program details at www.veralistcenter.org

Wednesday, March 20, 6:30 p.m. Public Art Fund Talks: Susan Phillipz The New School, Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street

For more information, visit www.veralistcenter.org

International Women’s Day Friday, March 8, 2013, 4 – 9 p.m. The New School, Wollman Hall 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor Cover Image: Simon Van De Passe, Pocahontas, 1616. Copper engraving. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. New York City In a time of staccato bursts of information and experiences measured in Project Continua tweets, this symposium celebrates International Women’s Day by looking at Creating and Preserving Women’s Intellectual History for the 21st Century women of the past, and how their representations and self-representations are inspiring New School students, faculty, and guests today. At this moment in history, we are the beneficiaries of 50 years of feminist In 1605, in his seminal work The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon empirical research, which has provided us with more information than we described “perfect history” in the following manner: “But lives, if they be well ever imagined about many more historical women. Project Continua is a written, propounding to themselves a person to represent in whom actions web-based multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation both greater and smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of of women’s intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation.” the 21st Century. It is accessible and contributable by everyone. The core of Project Continua is the “female biography” archive, searchable The students, scholars, artists, dancers, writers, and historians assembling on March 8 are writing a “More Perfect History,” calling attention to women’s content containing individual entries for each woman, including up-to-date self-representations and self-writing. Inspired by radical feminist Mary Hays scholarship on their life trajectories, their work, and the new knowledge (1759-1843) and her groundbreaking work Female Biography (1803)—the they produced. Project Continua will also act as a virtual laboratory in first history of women since Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies (1405) and which students can connect and collaborate with scholars, experiment the first in English—the event celebrates “female biography” as a valid form with ideas, share research, and initiate new scholarship about historically of inquiry, even though women’s life histories rarely follow the traditional significant women. It will provide us with the foundation needed to create prototype of “Great Men.” research tools and content for curricular development K-12 and beyond. Gina Luria Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s History at The New School for Public Engagement, editor of the Chawton House Library Edition Project Continua is an initiative of the enthusiastic collaborative community of Female Biography, and director of Project Continua, guides a discussion assembled by Gina Luria Walker to produce the Chawton House Library on how to portray female intellectuals of the past, little remembered and Edition of Mary Hays’s groundbreaking Female Biography; or, memoirs of mostly forgotten, who paved the way for the right to higher education that Illustrious and Celebrated Women from All Ages and Countries (1803). At many of us now enjoy. present, there are 150 scholars and students, representing 106 institutions in eighteen countries and four continents, burnishing the “female Throughout history, learned women have contributed to the collective body biographies” of the 300 iconoclastic women Hays included in her seminal of human knowledge, yet their discoveries were rarely integrated into the received continuum of foundational knowledge and, therefore, excluded work. from teaching and learning about the past. Focusing on the lives of women reclaimed by feminist scholarship over the last 50 years, this symposium www.projectcontinua.org analyzes the impulse to risk self-writing, features women’s self-representation over time in letters, journals, novels, and other genres, and examines how self-writing has functioned as a vehicle for mentoring, instruction, and inspiration for women.

The symposium unfolds over several acts that stage a multitude of media and self-writing, ranging from the visual arts to poetry, scholarship to dance, song to fashion. Among the participants are Susan Cameron, Kate Eichhorn, Andrea Geyer, Carin Kuoni, Catherine Morris, Mary Spongberg, and Gina Luria Walker, with Jean E. Taylor acting as interlocutor.

follow us @femalebiography The symposium is sponsored by The New School for Public Engagement Program and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in celebration of Project Continua, and supported by an Academic Event Fund contribution. Prelude Thank you to our extraordinary program participants and friends, among 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. them Nicholas Allanach, Ingrid Burrington, Amilcar Carino, Elianna Greenberg, Brian Kase and his team, Steven van Leeuwen, Joana Maresh, Gina Walker, From Love Letters to Female Biography, keynote address Juliana Ossa Martinez, Naomi Miller, Carrie Neal, Pippin Parker, Jean E. Elaine Abelson, Tribute to Gerda Lerner Taylor, Pamela Tillis and her staff, Penny Whitworth, and Daisy Wong. Act I: Love and Learning 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Vera List Center for Art and Politics Jean E. Taylor Jim Andersen and Lauren Salvo, __beware!__I am a little proud slut__but Founded in 1992 and named in honor of the late philanthropist Vera remember I gave you warning! Dramatic reading of Mary Hays’s 1778 List, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School serves letter, adapted from Hays’s Love-Letters by Gina Luria Walker and Susan as a catalyst for the discourse on the role of the arts in society and Cameron, and directed by Christie Marie Clark. their relationship to the sociopolitical climate in which they are created. Act II: Anonymous It organizes and presents public programs, workshops, research 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. seminars, exhibitions, and publishes occasional books that respond to Jean E. Taylor some of the pressing social and political issues of our time. The center Koren Whipp, Who was she? Unraveling the mysteries of Hays’s entry for offers fellowships to emerging and exceptionally accomplished cultural “Anonymous” that wraps five women into one, and other puzzles of practitioners and artists, and supports their research as it infuses the history, talk center’s own programs. Focusing on cultural production that emerges Elena Testi, Laura Bassi: Her Life (1711-1778), talk within and outside the traditional art worlds, the center seeks to intervene Andrea Geyer, Three Chants Modern. Women, Art and Politics, video (work in progress) in contemporary political debates and strives to further the university’s Catherine Morris, Lively Representations of Smaller Actions: Exhibiting educational mission by bringing together scholars and students, the people Biographical Footnotes, talk of New York, and national and international audiences in an exploration of Amber Matthews, Nina Simone’s Four Women, song new possibilities for civic engagement. Intermission 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. www.veralistcenter.org Refreshments Act III: Missing Women/Women Missing 6:30 – 7:45p.m. Jean E. Taylor Amy Minter, Christine De Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, reading Penny Whitworth, Ashkenaz Women: The Times of the Crusades, talk Carin Kuoni, Mary Fischer, talk Thelma Armstrong, Matoaks (Pocahontas), talk Kristen Stevens, Gret Palucca beyond 20th-century Germany, talk Kate Eichhorn, Archival Encounters and Contemporary Feminisms, talk Act IV: Rebellious Women Kaitlin Sansoucie, Hertha Ayerton: Every Inch a Woman, video 7:45 – 8:00 p.m. Kaitlin Sansoucie, There is no Bassi in London, video Trey K. Blackburn, Alexandra Gellner, and Selena Reed, Rebel. Dramatic reading of excerpts of Rebel, Susan Cameron’s screenplay about Danielle Small, Montaigne’s Blog, print Deborah Sampson. Directed by Christie Marie Clark. Finale Koren Whipp, Mercy Otis Warren: Founding Mother, video 8:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Mary Spongberg, Female Biography to Memoirs of Queens: Final Acts in Participants Mary Hays’s Feminist Career, closing remarks Elaine Abelson, Associate Professor Joana Maresh, Lang ’14 Reception of History, Eugene Lang College Mikayla Markrich, Parsons ’12 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. The New School for Liberal Arts Amber Matthews, The New School Refreshments Jim Anderson, The New School for for Jazz ’15, Parsons The New Drama ’13 School for Design Thelma Armstrong, Executive Amy Minter, Special Projects Artworks and Artifacts Assistant to the Dean, The New Coordinator, Office of the School for Public Engagement Provost The works listed below are on display in Wollman Hall during the symposium. Trey K. Blackburn, The New School Catherine Morris, Curator, Elizabeth for Drama A. Sackler Center for Feminist Jessica Chan, Elizabeth I, Princess to Britannia, painting Susan Cameron, Part-time Assistant Art, Brooklyn Museum Professor, The New School for Carrie Novitzski, SUS ’12 Jessica Chan, Xiang Jingyu, poster Drama Selena Reed, The New School for Jessica Chan, New School of Drama ’13 Carrie Crowell, Beyond Wives, painting General Studies ’11 Lauren Salvo, The New School for Christie Marie Clark, The New Drama ’13 Courtney Dransfield,Branding Manon Roland, Girondist Martyr of the School for Drama ’13 Kaitlin Sansoucie, Lang ’11 French Revolution, video Carrie Crowell, The New School of Danielle Small, Eugene Lang Public Engagement ’12 College, ’13 Tennessee Dye, Portrait of the Woman as an Artist: Female Artists in the Tennessee Dye, Parsons & SUS ’13 Mary Spongberg, Faculty of Arts, Age of Enlightenment, video Courtney Dransfield, Parsons the Macquarie University, New New School for Design ’12, South Wales, Australia Elianna Greenberg, Blazing World Book, print Founder and Partner, Landed Kristen Stevens, The New School Kate Eichhorn, Assistant Professor ’09; MA, Teachers College, Sam Greenberg, Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun: A Portrait of Determination, video of Culture and Media Studies, Columbia University ’12 essay Lang College The New School Jean E. Taylor, Part-time Lecturer, for Liberal Arts The New School for Drama Mary Hays, Female Biography, first edition Alexandra Gellner, MFA ’13, The Elena Testi, SUS ’07, video producer, Grateful acknowledgement is made to Steven van Leeuwen New School for Drama Human Rights Watch Andrea Geyer, Associate Professor Gina Luria Walker, Associate Joana Maresh, The Patriarchal Nature of Our Language, zine of Fine Arts, Parsons The New Professor of Women’s History, School for Design The New School for Public Mikayla Markrich, There Once Was a Girl Named Anna, children’s book with Elianna Greenberg, Lang ’13 Engagement, editor of the illustrations Sam Greenberg, Lang ’16 Chawton House Library Edition Carin Kuoni, Director/Curator, Vera of Female Biography, and Carrie Novitzski, Women’s Handwork, tapestry with passages from Milton’s List Center for Art and Politics, director of Project Continua Paradise Lost and Anna Maria von Schurmann’s Whether A Christian The New School of Public Koren Whipp, NSGS ’11, NSSR ’13 Woman Should be Educated Engagement Penny Whitworth, SUS ’13