Past Conferences
THE SCHOLAR AND THE FEMINIST XVII:
APOCALYPSE NOW?
RACE AND GENDER IN THE NINETIES
April 7, 1990
Conference Program (PDF, 220 KB)
Morning Session
Welcoming Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, President of Barnard College
Conference Opening:
Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
Keynote Addresses:
Prospects for Race and Gender Relations in New York
Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President
Racism in the Academy
Hazel Carby, Critic, Yale University
Morning Plenaries
- Dominating Women Through Reproduction
Joan Bertin, Associate Director of the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU
Suzanne Lynn, Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York in charge of the Civil Rights Bureau
- Political Organization and Spirituality
Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Union Theological Seminary
Joy James, Miami University School of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Affirmative Action: Where We Are Headed
Denise Carty-Bennia, Barnard '69, Northeastern University Law School and the City University Law School at Queens College
- The Race-Gender System and Social Change
Barbara Omolade, City University of New York
Rosalind Petchesky, Director of Women's Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York
Afternoon Session
Joint Reid Lecturers for 1990:
Adolescent Sexuality and School-Based Clinics
Joycelyn Elders, M.D., Director of the Arkansas Board of Public Health
Tripmaster Monkey: Chaos and Peace
Maxine Hong Kingston, Writer
Afternoon Plenaries
- Multicultural Organizing: Developing Antiracist Strategies
Beth Richie, Program in Community Health Education, Hunter College, City University of New York
Stephanie Roth, Management and Antiracism Consultant and Trainer
- Handmaid's Tale in the Brave New World: Pregnant Women and Drug Abuse
Lynn Paltrow, Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU
- Women of Color in the Arts
Isabel Nazario, Museum Associate of the New York State Council of the Arts
Judith Wilson, Art Historian, Columbia University and Syracuse University
Yong Soon Min, Visual Artist and Activist
- Myths About Teen Pregnancy
Michele Cahill, Vice President and Director, School in Community Services, Academy for Educational Development
Constencia Warren, Director, The Support Center for Educational Equity for Young Mothers, Academy for Educational Development
Academic Coordinator
Temma Kaplan
Conference Coordinators
Bernita Dorch, Ruth Farmer, Temma Kaplan, Kim Kupperman
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