LSUS symposium to highlight ‘Daring Women’
03/08/04

“Daring Women of the Enlightenment” is a symposium to be held Friday and Saturday at the Noel Collection reading room on the campus of LSUS. The symposium has attracted scholars from around the world who will deliver papers and promote conversations about risk takers, trailblazers, and everyday women who defied norms and resisted categorization in the literature, life, and culture of the period 1660-1830.

Paper topics including travel and adventure, risky business, gambling and chance, science, genre and gender formation, and the theatre. Each session, including a paper and lively discussion afterward will begin Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. and continue in 90-minute increments. Saturday’s schedule kicks off at 9 a.m.

Of special interest is the Third Annual Ruth Herring Noel lecture featuring Dr. Paula R. Backscheider, Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. Her talk, “Hanging on and Hanging In: Women’s Struggle to Participate in Public Sphere Debate,” will begin Friday at noon in the Noel Library Assembly Room.

The symposium, funded by generous support from the Noel Foundation and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, is also part of the YWCA’s 18th Annual Celebration of Women Week.

For information about the conference, including a complete list of presenters and abstracts, visit www.noelcollection.org and click on “Conferences” and/or contact Diane Boyd at dboyd@lsus.edu.