*FORUM FRIDAYS: VIRTUAL VIRGINIA FORUM TALKS*

*Speaking Their Names: Crafting “Tenacity: Women in Jamestown and Early
Virginia”*

   - Friday, August 6, 2021 from 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
   - Online
   - Free, but registration required
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Join us for a series of virtual presentations on Virginia history and
culture from scholars across the state. This series offers some of the most
compelling sessions that had been proposed for the 2020 Virginia Forum
conference, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. The annual event
brings together teachers, students, and professionals interested in
Virginia history and culture to present, discuss, and reconsider the story
of the commonwealth. Free and open to the general public, this
collaboration with the Library of Virginia will share the online sessions
with a wider audience
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Events are scheduled for July 23, August 6, August 20, and September 17,
2021.

On August 6, Katherine Egner Gruber, special exhibitions curator at
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, presents *Speaking Their Names: Crafting
“Tenacity: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia.”* Women’s roles in the
events of early Virginia were rarely recorded—and rarer still is their
presence in traditional treatments of the history of early Virginia. Even
so, tenacious women profoundly influenced the early years of the Virginia
colony. For too long their names have been forgotten. Using the recent
exhibition Tenacity as a guide, this talk will explore how to find women
between the lines of the historical record, and how material culture,
documentary evidence, and a little imagination can come together to craft
an engaging, relevant, and more complete narrative of 17th-century Virginia.

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