{"id":395,"date":"2023-03-08T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/?p=395"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:44:48","slug":"anastasia-curwood-to-speak-at-swain-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/news\/anastasia-curwood-to-speak-at-swain-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anastasia Curwood to speak at Swain Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Anastasia Curwood\" class=\"wp-image-106\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/curwoodphoto-scaled-M1haDr.tmp_-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On March 30, the Martha Swain Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Anastasia C. Curwood, professor of history and director of African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, to campus to highlight the life and legacy of Shirley Chisholm\u2014who made history as the first black woman elected to the US Congress (1968) and the first black candidate to seek a major party\u2019s presidential nomination (1972)\u2014for Women\u2019s History Month 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curwood will discuss her new biography of Chisholm, Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics (2023), which \u201cinterweaves Chisholm&#8217;s public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life. In doing so, Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm&#8217;s time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building\u201d (UNC Press). A book-signing will take place from 3-4 PM at Friendly City Books, and Curwood\u2019s lecture will follow in Nissan Auditorium at 7 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/shirley-chisholm-book-kyokHa.tmp_.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Chisholm book cover\" class=\"wp-image-103\" width=\"225\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/shirley-chisholm-book-kyokHa.tmp_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/womenscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2023\/02\/shirley-chisholm-book-kyokHa.tmp_-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dr. Curwood&#8217;s scholarship focuses on the interface between private life and historical context for black Americans in the twentieth century. In particular, she studies the workings of gender in African Americans&#8217; social, cultural\/intellectual, and political history. Her first book explored marriages between middle-class African Americans in the era of the New Negro and the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swain Series brings a distinguished person to campus to speak every March as part of Women\u2019s History Month and features issues important to women\u2019s interests, lives, and experiences. The series was established to honor the career of Dr. Martha Swain, a women\u2019s historian who published widely on women\u2019s lives and politics in Mississippi, including the biography<em> Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South<\/em> and edited the two-volume set <em>Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MARCH 30, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3-4 PM Book Signing at Friendly City Books<br>7-8 PM Lecture in Nissan Auditorium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, the Martha Swain Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Anastasia C. 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