Conference Program (PDF, 260 KB)
Morning Session
Welcoming Remarks:
Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
Conference Opening:
Women, War, and the Environment
Bella S. Abzug, Co-chair of the Women’s Foreign Policy council and Co-chair of the International Policy Action Committee on Environment and Development
Ecofeminism: A Politics of Connection
Ynestra King, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Social Research
Morning Plenaries
- Ecological Urbanism: Women Charting A Course for Change-Work in Progress
Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Hampshire College
Gwyn Kirk, Colorado College - Environmental Justice: Race and Class
Celene Krauss, Kean College of New Jersey
Peggy Shephard, West Harlem Environmental Action - The Role of Planning Boards in Controlling the Environment
Inez Pasher, Chair of the Solid Waste Management Facilities Committee, Planning Board 1, Williamsburg
Afternoon Session
Our Bodies, Our Selves?
Susan Bordo, LeMoyne College
Communities of Color and Environmental Justice
Vernice Miller, West Harlem Environmental Action
Women, Environment, and Livelihoods: A Worm’s Eye View
Gita Sen, DAWN, Vassar College
Afternoon Plenaries
- A Visual Dissection of the Patriarchal Mind: A Slide Show
Batya Bauman, East-Coast Coordinator of Feminists for Animal Rights - Home Environment, Labor Allocation, and Domestic Waste
Cecilia Conrad, Assistant Professor, Economics, Barnard College - Affordable Housing and Community Organizing
Cheryl P. Derricotte, Barnard ’87, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State, Inc.
Jan Peterson, Columbia University and the National Council of Neighborhood Women - Occupational Environments: Workplace Health and Reproductive Rights
Ilise (I.L.) Feitshans, Barnard ’79, Columbia Law School Legislative Drafting Research Fund
Diane Stein, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
Academic Coordinator
Temma Kaplan
Conference Coordinators
Bernita Dorch, Ruth Farmer, Temma Kaplan
