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

1. 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
2. Political Organization and Spirituality
   Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Union Theological Seminary
   Joy James, Miami University School of Interdisciplinary Studies
3. Affirmative Action: Where We Are Headed
   Denise Carty-Bennia, Barnard ’69, Northeastern University Law School and the City University Law School at Queens College
4. 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

5. 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
6. Handmaid’s Tale in the Brave New World: Pregnant Women and Drug Abuse
   Lynn Paltrow, Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU
7. 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
8. 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