Jan’s 2004-2005 Speaking Engagements

Jan addresses the audience @
the College of Lake County (4/04).

Jan’s

2005-2006

Speaking

Engagements

DATE	WHERE	LOCATION	WHAT
09/08/05	Seattle Branch AAUW	Seattle, WA	A JURY OF HER PEERS
09/28/05	University Center-Chicago	Chicago, IL	Linda Ben-Zvi Lecture
11/10/05	Eureka College	Eureka, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
11/19/05	Park Ridge Public Library	Park Ridge, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
01/09/06	Arlington Heights Library	Arlington Heights, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
01/25/05	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
02/22/05	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	CLOTHESLINES
01/29/06	McHenry County College	Crystal Lake, IL	JURY + CLOTHESLINES
03/02/06	Univ of Illinois-Springfield	Springfield, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
03/18/06	WITASWAN Chicago Loop	Chicago, IL	THE 24 HOUR WOMAN
04/06/06	Monmouth College	Monmouth, IL	To Be Determined
04/07/06	John Wood Community College	Quincy, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS
04/08/06	Quincy Museum	Quincy, IL	CLOTHESLINES
04/30/06	Univ of Illinois-Champaign	Champaign, IL	A JURY OF HER PEERS

AAUW-Illinois Fall District Meeting
@ Monmouth College.
Jan counts the crowd before her
District Three presentation (10/03).

Follow this link for Jan’s explanation
of the Celluloid Ceiling problem
& what YOU can do about it.

Reviews of Jan’s previous Celluloid Ceiling Programs

From Donna Sproston, Director, AAUW-Illinois District 3 (2002-2004):

“AAUW-IL’s District 3 Fall Conference attendees were enthusiastic in their praise for Jan's presentation. Many had never thought before about the presence of a celluloid ceiling confronting women in the film industry. Her enthusiasm for her subject and her natural interactive style made the session pass all too quickly."

From Erika Nicketakis, President, Waukegan Area Branch AAUW (2003-2005):

“At our February general meeting, Jan not only showed us the film A JURY OF HER PEERS, she also led us in a rousing discussion of the film and women filmmakers in general. She urged us to ‘vote’ for films by women filmmakers by seeking them out in theaters and/or renting them on DVD/VHS. Her enthusiastic knowledge was infectious!”

AAUW-Illinois Fall District Meeting @ IIT-West in Wheaton (11/03).
Jan chats after her presentation with District Four members
JoAnn Horowitz (left) & Pam Sanner (right).

More about the film A JURY OF HER PEERS
(often shown @ Jan’s Celluloid Ceiling programs)

A JURY OF HER PEERS
A Film by Sally Heckel
Based on a Story by Susan Glaspell

A JURY OF HER PEERS is based on a 1917 short story of the same name by Susan Glaspell. Inspired by events witnessed during her years as a court reporter for the DES MOINES DAILY, Glaspell crafted a story in which two rural women uncover clues to a murder, clues that were completely overlooked by the men responsible for investigating the case.

In her lifetime, Glaspell wrote 13 plays, 14 novels, & more than 50 essays, articles & short stories. In 1931, she received a Pulitzer Prize, one of the first American women so honored. Glaspell was a true feminist pioneer!

Sally Heckel is a Manhattan-based independent filmmaker best known for her 1980 Oscar-nominated dramatic short A JURY OF HER PEERS. This film has received international distribution, & has become a classic in the US (where it is shown in high schools & colleges as well as law schools).

Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

”So I went out on the wharf, sat alone on one of our wooden benches without a back, and looked a long time at that bare little stage. After a time the stage became a kitchen - a kitchen there all by itself. I saw just where the stove was, the table, and the steps going upstairs. Then the door at the back opened and people all bundled up came in – two or three men, I wasn’t sure which, but sure enough about the two women, who hung back, reluctant to enter that kitchen. When I was a newspaper reporter out in Iowa, I was sent down-state to do a murder trial, and I never forgot going into the kitchen of a woman locked up in town. I had meant to do it as a short story, but the stage took it for its own, so I hurried in from the wharf to write down what I had seen...”

From THE ROAD TO THE TEMPLE
By Susan Glaspell

(Describing how she wrote the play TRIFLES, which she later rewrote as the short story A JURY OF HER PEERS)

	Click here for the Susan Glaspell Society website.
	Click here to order books by &/or about Susan Glaspell from Amazon.
	Click here to contact Sally Heckel, the director of A JURY OF HER PEERS.