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The Scholar and the Feminist V:
Creating Feminist Works – April 12, 1978

June 14, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Conference Program (PDF, 280 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksJacqueline Anderson Mattfeld, President, Barnard CollegeCreating Feminist Works: A Panel DiscussionEve Merriam, poet and playwrightNancy K. Miller, Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Columbia UniversityHarmony Hammond, artist and member of the Heresies Collective Moderator: Elizabeth Minnich, Barnard College Afternoon Seminars A Feminist Perspective on Art HistoryAnn Sutherland Harris, Metropolitan Museum … Read more

The Scholar and the Feminist IV:
Connecting Theory, Practice, and Values – April 23, 1977

June 14, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Conference Program (PDF, 280 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksElizabeth Janeway, Trustee, Barnard CollegeUnraveling the Problem of Origins: An Anthropological Search for Feminist TheoryRayna R. Reiter, The New School for Social ResearchWhen Did Man Make God in His Image? A Case-Study in Religion and PoliticsElaine H. Pagels, Barnard College Moderator: Hester Eisenstein, Barnard College Afternoon Seminars The Female … Read more

The Scholar and the Feminist III
The Search for Origins – April 10, 1976

June 14, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

The Scholar and the Feminist II:
Toward a New Criteria of Relevance – April 12, 1975

June 14, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Conference Program (PDF, 320 KB) Papers and Discussion Welcoming RemarksMartha Peterson, President, Barnard CollegeHistory and the Social Relation of the SexesJoan Kelly-Gadol, CUNY-City CollegeOne Biologist’s Perspective on Sex DifferencesHelen H. Lambert, Northeastern University Moderator: Annette K. Baxter, Barnard CollegeCommentator: Catharine R. Stimpson, Barnard College Seminars A Neglected Theme in Euripides’ Medea: Interpreting Classical LiteratureHelen Bacon, Barnard College Sexual … Read more

The Scholar and the Feminist – May 11, 1974

June 14, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Conference Program (PDF, 484 KB) The Scholar and the Feminist What is the impact of feminism on scholarship? What are the implications for the disciplines? for academic institutions? and for scholars in their own research and their understanding of women? These questions are the focus of today’s conference and will be examined by three concurrent panels … Read more

Book

November 1, 2024November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Several Scholar & Feminist Conferences have formed the foundation of groundbreaking anthologies of feminist scholarship. “The Future of Difference,” hosted in 1979, became a book of the same name, edited by Hester Eisenstein and Alice Jardine, while the 1982 conference of female sexuality provided the materials in Carole Vance’s anthology, Pleasure and Danger (which, because of the … Read more

Document Archive

October 17, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Over the years, the Scholar & Feminist Conference has gathered together hundreds of voices from the front lines of feminist scholarship, art and activism. Anna Deavere Smith, Winona LaDuke, Barbara Ehrenreich, Honor Moore, Elaine Pagels, Faye Ginsurg, Anna Quindlen and Maria Hinojosa, to name just a few, have generously and eloquently shared their unique views … Read more

Past Conferences

October 17, 2022November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Since its inception, the Scholar & Feminist Conference has taken a bold, critical look at matters of sex, gender and sexuality, race and economics, politics and culture. Sometimes controversial, always ambitious, the conference provides not only a forum for cutting-edge feminist theories, but also a space for imagining how those theories might be used to … Read more

Summary – Panel 4
Women’s Culture: Media, Art and Modes of Cultural Production

April 18, 2024November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

From the fifth Scholar & Feminist – Creating Feminist Works – through the twenty-third – Women in Film: Images and Images Makers – to the twenty-ninth – Power and Representation in a Media-Saturated Age – the Center has been vitally interested in how feminist artists, performers and media-makers both inspire and answer the call for social change. Moderated by Ann Cvetkovich, Professor … Read more

Summary – Panel 3
Class, Race, and Sex: The Future of Difference

November 1, 2024November 8, 2005 by Janet R. Jakobsen

In 1979, The Scholar & Feminist VI: The Future of Difference showcased formative theories of sexual difference across a range of disciplines, from psychoanalytic, linguistic and literary criticism to history and political science. The following year’s conference, Class, Race and Sex: Exploring Contradictions, Affirming Connections, set out to understand how economic, political and cultural institutions divide women by … Read more

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