USC Aiken to Host Sixth Annual Symposium on Southern Women
February 7, 2008
The University of South Carolina Aiken will host the Sixth Annual Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women on Wednesday, March 19 at 6:30 pm in the Etherredge Center on the USC Aiken campus.
The focus of this year’s Symposium is “Southern Women and World War II.” The keynote speaker is Dr. Judy Litoff, an accomplished author who, for the last 20 years, has devoted her career to investigating and studying correspondence of American women during World War II. Her research has focused on the many ways in which the women of that era actively participated in the war effort. Litoff earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Maine.
The Symposium will feature taped interviews of local women who lived during the World War II era, as well as a collection of letters and mementos from that time. A reception, sponsored by the Aiken branch of the American Association of University Women, will be held following the lecture. The Symposium is open to the public at no charge.
The Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women was created to honor the contributions of southern women and is named after the Pickens-Salley House on the USC Aiken campus. The home bears the name of two unique women who lived in the house during its more than 200-year history. Lucy Holcombe Pickens was the wife of South Carolina Governor at the time of secession, Francis W. Pickens, who was the original owner of the house. Eulalie Salley was a pioneer feminist of the early 20th Century and president of the South Carolina Equal Suffrage League. Salley had the house moved from its original location in Edgefield to Aiken in the early 1900s.
For more information, contact Dr. Deidre Martin, vice chancellor for university advancement, at 803-641-3448 or DeidreM@usca.edu.
