Chicago Women’s History Conference 2025

Theme: Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women

Registration

The Chicago Women's History Center is honored to host “Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women”, a hybrid conference taking place on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Roosevelt University. This conference will bring together scholars, researchers, and advocates for a full day of panels, workshops, and discussions dedicated to the historical and contemporary strategies that have shaped the advancement of women’s rights.

Earlybird registration is now open, you can receive 10% off tickets until February 14, 2025. Attendees may participate in person or virtually, with the option to access recorded presentations for two months following the event. We invite you to take part in this critical dialogue on the past, present, and future of women’s rights advocacy. Secure your place today by visiting our website for more details.

Early bird registration is $180
This includes continental breakfast and lunch at Roosevelt University
9:30am - 5:30pm

Scholarships open on February 14, 2025 and close on March 10, 2025

There are two additional tiers for registration:
Registration + donation = $250
Full registration + Videos = $280 (Earlybird)
This includes twelve videos of presentations and panels available from
April 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025

About the Conference

Chicago Women’s History Center is delighted to work in partnership with Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), Evanston History Center and Women & Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago to host a hybrid conference on Saturday March 22, 2025. We have additional sponsors of WILPF US and Skyline Village. It will include a keynote speaker (TBC) and one day of fifteen panels, presentations, roundtables, and workshops from 9:30am - 5:30pm.

With support from the partners we will be providing nine scholarship places for graduate students and researchers to attend who wish to actively document the conference with live social media messaging or writing two blog posts about the conference. The application for scholarships will open on February 14, 2025.

Please email chicagowomenshistory@gmail.com if you have questions about membership or registration.

Earlybird registration opens: February 4, 2025

Scholarship applications open: February 14, 2025

Registration: February 14, 2025