EVENTS
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 5:30 pm - - Southwest Harbor, ME
“What Suffragists Can Teach Us About the 2024 Election,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, in person and virtual
Saturday, August, 2024, 8 pm -- New York, NY
Post-show panel “Women Power Democracy,” following “Suffs” performance, Music Box Theatre, photos here
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 12 pm -- Warren, OH
Keynote, Annual Spring Luncheon, Harriet Taylor Upton House
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 12 pm -- Lubbock, TX
"Are Women People? A History of the Equal Rights Amendment," Keynote, Women's and Gender Studies Conference, Texas Tech University
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7 pm -- Springboro, OH
"Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage," Springboro Historical Society
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 7:30 pm -- virtual
Free Thinker book talk and discussion, League of Women Voters of Colorado
Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 12 pm -- Oxford, OH
"The Curious History of Sexual Selection Theory," Ecolunch, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Friday, March 1, 2024, 3 pm -- Cincinnati, OH
Opening Remarks, Investiture Ceremony for Judge Samantha Silverstein
Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 5 pm -- Oxford, OH
"Historical Perspectives on 'A Golden Time: Ohio Women Artists at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, Miami University, details here
Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 12 pm -- Cincinnati, OH
In conversation with Jill Lepore about her latest book The Deadline. Joseph Beth Booksellers, details here
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 12 pm -- Oxford, OH (virtual)
In conversation with curator Jason Shaiman about new exhibit "A Golden Time: Turn of the Century Ohio Women Artists," Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, Miami University, sponsored by the MU Alumni Association. Watch here and details here
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 7 pm (central) -- Columbia, MO
"#MeToo, Carry Nation, and Why It’s Time to Revisit the History of the Temperance Movement," Women's History Month Keynote Lecture, OAH Distinguished Lecture Event, Columbia College.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 7 pm -- New York, NY (virtual)"The Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote," Women's History Month Event, Yale University Club.Friday, October 21, 2022, 12 pm -- Oxford, OH"Staying informed on Roe vs. Wade and the Impact of its Repeal," Interfaith Center, Miami University.
Friday, September 9, 2022, 5 pm -- Cincinnati, OHIn conversation with Kersha Deibel Trotter, CEO of Planned Parenthood SW Ohio, Allgood McLean Women You Should Know Series, Mercantile Library.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 12 pm -- Bloomington, IN"Women and Civic Rights" K-12 teacher training session, Indian Bar Foundation, University of Indiana.
Friday, June 10, 2022, 1:30 pm -- West Lafayette, INHamlin presents new research on the movement to raise the age of sexual consent at the American Political History Conference, Purdue University.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 7 pm -- Dayton, OHScreening and Discussion of CET/Think-TV documentary "Let Ohio Women Vote," Dayton Library.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6 pm -- virtual"The Private Lives of Public Women in the Gilded Age," The Preservation Society of Newport (RI) County, details here.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 7 pm -- virtual"The #MeToo Movement in Cultural History," Humanities in Class Webinar Series, National Humanities Center, details here.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 7 pm -- Oxford, OH (virtual)Discussion of CET-Think TV documentary "Let Ohio Women Vote" with League of Women Voters, details here.
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 7 pm -- Troy, OH "Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage in America," Troy-Miami County Public Library.
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 4 pm -- New York, NY (virtual)"A Cultural History of the #MeToo Movement," International Women's Day Program for Strawberry Frog.Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 1 pm -- New York, NY (virtual)"Sex, Lies, and Suffrage History," Works Cited Series, New York Public Library, details here.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 10 am -- Burlington, NJ (virtual)Women's History Month "Story Corps" event, Doane Academy.
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 7:30 pm -- virtual"Birth Control: Technological Advance and Women's Quest for Reproductive Autonomy," Webinar for National Council for History Education, Technology and Innovation in American History Series.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 5 pm -- Oxford, OH“Why it is Vital to Tell Women’s Stories During Women’s History Month and All Year Long,” the 2022 Wilson Lecture, Miami University, open to the public.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 6 pm -- Cincinnati, OH (in-person and virtual) Free Thinker Hometown Book Party (2 years delayed) + women's history month kick-off, Mercantile Library, masked and vaccinated, details here.
Friday, December 3, 2021, 8 am -- Stockholm, Sweden (virtual) "From Eve to Evolution," invited lecture, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex: 150 Years of Feminist Engagement with Science, Anniversary Symposium, University of Stockholm, details here.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 6 pm -- Cincinnati, OH Hamlin hosts Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Marcia Chatelain for a discussion of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Part of the Allgood-McLean Women You Should Know Book Discussion Series, Mercantile Library, free, masked and vaccinated, details here.
Monday, October 25, 2021, 7 pm -- Newport, KY Free Thinker book discussion, Free Inquiry Group of Greater Cincinnati.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 7 pm -- Oxford, OH Join Kimberly Hamlin in conversation about "History, Leadership, and the Good Life," with former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper, Miami University, details here, inspired by John's recent op-ed about the importance of studying history.
Monday, September 13, 2021, 7 pm -- Hamilton, OH (in-person + virtual) "Are Women Full Citizens? What the Long History of #MeToo Reveals," keynote address for Citizenship and Democracy Week, Menard Family Center for Democracy, Miami University, details here.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 7:30-8:30 pm -- Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Join Kimberly Hamlin in conversation with New York Times best-selling author Alexis Coe for the Allgood-McLean Women You Should Know Series, hosted by the Mercantile Library, details here.
Thursday, August 19, 2021, 7-8 pm -- Dayton, OH (virtual)Hamlin participates in premiere screening of new CET/Think TV documentary "Let Ohio Women Vote" on which she served as historical consultant, watch here.
Saturday, August 14, 2021, 7-9 pm -- Lily Dale, NY (virtual)Hamlin participates in Q and A at premiere screening of new documentary, The Spirit Rooms of Lily Dale Featuring the Fox Sisters, Susan B Anthony, Floy Cottrell and Mae West, details here.
Wednesdays June 30-July 21, 2021, 12-1 pm -- Chautauqua, NY (virtual)Hamlin returns to Chautauqua to teach a master class on #MeToo: A Cultural history, details here.
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 3:30 pm -- Lenox, MA (virtual)Free Thinker Book Talk and Discussion, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, register here.
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 11: 45 am -- Oxford, OH (virtual)Hamlin moderates a discussion with Drs. Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan, authors of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Miami University, details here.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 7 pm -- North Andover, MA (virtual)Free Thinker community read discussion, Stevens Memorial Library, details here.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 6:30 pm (Central Time, 7:30 EST) -- St. Paul, MN (virtual)"Are Women People? A History of the Equal Rights Amendment," Minnesota Historical Society, video here.Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 6 pm – Oxford, OH (virtual)"The Pill," Objects that Changed the World Lecture Series, Miami University Humanities Center, video here.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 1 pm – Webinar (virtual)Free Thinker Book Talk and Discussion, International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism (ISHASH) Webinar Series, email anton.jansson@hist.lu.se to register.
Monday, March 22, 2021, 7 pm -- Oxford, OH (virtual)In Conversation with Paula Monopoli about Constitutional Orphan and The Legacy of the 19th Amendment, Miami University Menard Family Center for Democracy, register here.
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 2:30 pm -- Ogunquit, ME (virtual)Free Thinker Book Talk and Discussion, Ogunquit Memorial Library, register here.
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 5:30 pm (MOUNTAIN time -- Laramie, WY (virtual)Women's History Month "Think and Drink," Women and Politics, University of Wyoming, join here.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 pm – Washington, DC (virtual)"Searching for Suffrage at the Library of Congress," Free Thinker book discussion with Library of Congress Manuscript Division experts, details here, video here.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 7 pm – Camillus, NY (virtual)Free Thinker Book Talk and Discussion, Maxwell Memorial Library, register here.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 7:30 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual)In conversation with Janice Nimura about her new book The Doctors Blackwell, hosted by the Mercantile Library, free to all, register here.
Friday, January 22, 2021, 12:30 pm – Notre Dame University (virtual)Roundtable on the Inauguration of Kamala Harris, hosted by the Rooney Center for American Democracy and the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights., details here.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 – San Francisco, CA (pre-recorded, virtual)"Sex and Suffrage," panel discussion with historians Sherry Smith and Wendy Rouse, hosted by the California Historical Society, details here, on C-SPAN here, video here.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 5 pm – Washington, D.C. (virtual)"The Inauguration of Kamala Harris in Historical and Cultural Context," American Studies Speaker Series, Georgetown University, register here.
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:15 pm – Boston, MA (virtual)"How We Go On: Three Lives of Persistence, Resistance, and Resilience," New England Biography Series, with Nick Basbanes and John Loughery, Massachusetts Historical Society, details here, video here.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 1 pm CST (2 pm EDT) – Austin, TX (virtual)In conversation with Ellis Cose, the ACLU and 19th Amendment at 100, Texas Book Festival, register here (rebroadcast on C-SPAN Book TV, video here).
Monday, November 9, 2020, 4 pm – Ithaca, NY (virtual) "Why Helen Hamilton Gardener's Brain is Floating in a Jar in Uris Hall," Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, Cornell University.
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 6:30 pm – Wooster, OH (virtual)Moderator of Politics and Ohio panel featuring U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and New York Times Bestselling author Connie Schultz, Buckeye Book Fair, video here.
Monday, October 26, 2020, 4 pm – Washington, D.C. (virtual) In conversation with Marcia Chatelain and Ellen Carol Dubois about DuBois's new book Suffrage, National History Center, video here.
Friday, October 23, 2020, 11 am – Houston, TX (virtual)Keynote address, “History Matters” Conference, San Jacinto College.
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7 pm – Portsmouth, NH (socially distanced + masks)Free Thinker book talk and signing, Music Hall, tickets here.
Thursday, October 1, 2020, 5 pm – (virtual)Constitution Camp (19th Amendment), Ohio Center for Law-Related Education.
Wednesday, September 30, 6:30 pm -- Syracuse, NY (virtual)Free Thinker discussion, Onondaga Free Library, details here.
Tuesday, September 29, 1 pm -- (virtual)Free Thinker webinar, hosted by W.W. Norton College Division.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 7-8:30 pm – free webinar (advance registration here)“Women’s Suffrage at the Centennial,” Humanities in Class Webinar Series, National Humanities Center, video here.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 6 pm – Cleves, OH (postponed due to COVID-19)“Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage,” Three Rivers Women’s Club.
Wednesday, September 9, 6 pm (MNTN time, 8 pm EST) -- Laramie, WY (virtual)"Women's Suffrage and the Sexual Revolution," with Sherry Smith, sponsored by ThinkWY/Wyoming Humanities Council, details here.
Saturday, August 29, 3 pm -- Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Keynote, 19th Amendment Celebration and Candidate Forum, Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, details here.
Thursday, August 27, 6:30 pm (Central time, 7:30 EST) -- Kansas City, MO (virtual)Women's Equality Day Keynote, Kansas City Public Library, details here, video here.
Wednesday, August 26, 11:30 am -- Dallas, TX (virtual)Women's Equality Day Celebration, Sponsored by Haynes and Boone Law Firm and Interabang Books.
Wednesday, August 26, 1 pm -- Washington, DC (virtual)"The Long Road to the Vote," program hosted by Woman's National Democratic Club and National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, program and registration here, video here.
Wednesday, August 26, 11:30 am -- Los Angeles, CA (virtual)Women's Equality Day Celebration, Women in Technology International, details here.
Tuesday, August 18, 7 pm -- Sandusky, OH (virtual)Free Thinker discussion, Sandusky Public Library.
Tuesday, August 18, 2 pm -- Cincinnati, OH (virtual)19th Amendment Q and A hosted by Cincinnati Museum Center, video here.
Tuesday, August 18, 12 pm -- Oxford, OH (virtual)"Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of the Nineteenth Amendment," Miami University Alumni Association (open to the public), details here.
Tuesday, August 11, 6 pm -- Columbus, OH (virtual)"Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of the 19th Amendment," Suffrage Speaker Series, Ohio Humanities Council.
Thursday, August 6, 6:30 pm -- Richmond, VA (virtual)Free Thinker discussion with Theresa Kaminski author of Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War, hosted by the American Civil War Museum, register here.
Monday, August 3, 7 pm -- Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Free Thinker discussion hosted by Joseph Beth Booksellers, details here.
Thursday, July 30, 2020, 7 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Free Thinker discussion, Cincinnati Public Library Main Branch, register here.
July 25-August 1, 2020 – Chautauqua, NY (virtual)Faculty Fellow in Residence, Chautauqua Institution’s week on The Women’s Vote Centennial and Beyond. Register for Hamlin's 3-part Master Class on Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights here.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 9 am – Chautauqua, NY (virtual)Free Thinker discussion, Chautauqua Institution, Virtual Porch (free with advance registration).
Monday, July 13 at 4 pm – Lenox, MA (virtual)Free Thinker discussion, Summer Lecture Series, The Mount (Edith Wharton's Estate).
Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 7 pm – Cambridge, MA (virtual)Suffrage book discussion (Free Thinker + Picturing Political Power by Allison K. Lange), Harvard Book Store, details here.
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 7 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Panel discussion following CET, Think-TV, and League of Women Voters sneak peek screening and discussion of PBS American Experience "The Vote." Details here.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 7 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual)In conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning author Connie Schultz about her new novel The Daughters of Erietown, hosted by Joseph-Beth Booksellers, details here.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 9 am – Columbus, OH (virtual)“Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women’s Suffrage in America,” keynote address, Society of Ohio Archivists, details here, video here.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 7 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual)Free Thinker discussion with Tri-State Freethinkers group.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 12 pm – Washington, DC (virtual)Suffrage History Speakers Series, President Woodrow Wilson House, details here.
May 28-30, 2020 – Baltimore, MD (cancelled due to Covid-19)Suffrage panel discussion, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 6 pm – Cincinnati, OH (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)Free Thinker Launch Party at the iconic Cincinnati Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut Street, 11th Floor.
Thursday, May 21, 2020, 5:30 pm – Newport, RI (virtual) Free Thinker lecture + discussion hosted by the Preservation Society of Newport County (RI), Spring Lecture Series.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 7 pm – Houston, TX (virtual) Free Thinker discussion with the Houston Women's Bookclub.
Monday, May 18, 2020, 7 pm – New York, NY (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)Free Thinker signing and discussion, in conversation with (surprise!), The Wing.
Saturday, May 16, 2020, 4 pm – New York, NY (POSTPONED till 2021 BIO)Writing Women’s Lives Panel discussion, Biographers International (BIO) Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Friday, May 15, 2020, 5 pm – New York, NY (POSTPONED till 2021 BIO)3-minute reading of Free Thinker, Biographers International (BIO) Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 7 pm – Columbus, OH (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)In conversation with Sally Crane Cox, founding chair of the Board of the Matriots, Gramercy Books.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 7 pm – Cambridge, MA (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)Free Thinker signing and discussion, in conversation with Natalie Dykstra, Porter Square Books.
Saturday, April 25, 2020, 12 pm – Cincinnati, OH (virtual, video here)Discussing From Eve to Evolution, Semi-Colon Book Club, Harriet Beecher Stowe House, RSVP.
Saturday, April 4, 2020, 3:30 pm – Washington, D.C. (cancelled due to Covid-19)Free Thinker signing and discussion, Politics and Prose Bookstore.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 6 pm – Washington, D.C. (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)Free Thinker + Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, signing and discussion, in conversation with Marcia Chatelain, Women’s National Democratic Club, tickets here.
Thursday, March 26, 2020, 4 pm — Columbus, OH (POSTPONED due to Covid-19)Free Thinker signing and discussion, Ohio State University Library, details here.
Monday, March 23, 2020, 4 pm -- Atlanta, GA (POSTPONED)Free Thinker signing and discussion, Emory University.
Friday, March 13, 2020, 4 pm -- Oxford, OH (cancelled due to Covid-19)Race, Gender, Class Symposium Keynote, “Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage in America,” Miami University.
Tuesday, March 10, 12 pm – Hamilton, OHWomen’s history month keynote, “Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage in America,” Miami University Regional Campus.
Friday, February 21, 2020 – Muncie, INKeynote address, Annual Ball State University Student History Conference.
Monday, February 10, 2020—Delhi, OH“Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of Women's Suffrage in America,” Delhi Historical Society.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 5 pm – Cincinnati, OH“Sex, Lies, and the Election of 1876,” Annual Cincinnati History Lecture, Mercantile Library.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 -- Oxford, OH“Race, Racism, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” League of Women Voters cosponsored by the NAACP.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 – Indianapolis, IN“Voting Rights are Women’s Rights,” Bard Prison Initiative Women’s College Partnership Lecture Series, Indiana Women’s Prison.