Events & Outreach
Past Events
Exhibit Opening and Lecture Event
Monday, April 7, 2008
4:00-6:00 p.m.
and
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota West Bank 222 21st Av. S., Minneapolis (directions and parking info)
Monday’s event will feature the opening of the Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege in America photography exhibit, along with a talk by exhibit creator and historian Rickie Solinger. Tours of the Social Welfare History Archives, located in the Andersen library, will also be available.
Monday night is also the presentation of the Alumni of the Year award for the School of Social Work. Reggie Bicha, who was recently named secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, will be honored as Alumni of the Year. Bicha received his master's degree from our school, where he was a Title IV-E Child Welfare scholar.
Join us on Tuesday afternoon at the Library for a seminar by Rickie Solinger regarding historical research methodologies called “Race, Class, Gender, and the Scholarship of Paradoxes.” Ms. Solinger will highlight the use of the Social Welfare History Archives, which are a part of the University Libraries Archives and Special Collections.