Inspirations, Reflections, Connections, Futures: Celebrating 30 Years at the IRW

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11, 2008

Hosted by the Institute for Research on Women

at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library (Thursday, April 10)

and the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building (Friday, April 11)

Free box lunches will be provided for those who register by Monday, April 7. 

Online preregistration encouraged but not required.

For driving directions, click here.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10

Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Mabel Smith Douglass Library

4:30 - 6:00    Reception and Historical Exhibit

                            Welcome: Richard L. McCormick, President

                                Barry V. Qualls, Vice President for Undergraduate Education

                               Mary S. Hartman, Director, Institute for Women’s Leadership

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building

8:30-8:45               Light breakfast and registration

8:45-9:00               Welcome: Dorothy L. Hodgson, Director, Institute for Research on Women

9:00-10:30             Inspirations

                            Chair: Bonnie Smith, History and Women’s & Gender Studies

                                    Elaine Showalter, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities Emerita and Professor Emerita

                                         of English, Princeton University

                                    Virginia Yans, History

                                    Judith Walkowitz, History, Johns Hopkins University

                            Respondent: Veena Talwar Oldenburg, History, Baruch College

10:30-11:00           Break

11:00-12:30           Reflections

                            Chair: Dee Garrison, History (emerita)

                                   Mary Hartman, Institute for Women’s Leadership

                                   Carol H. Smith, English (emerita)

                                   Marianne DeKoven, English

                             Respondent: Kiran Asher, International Development & Social Change, Clark University

12:30-2:00              Lunch

2:00-3:30               Connections

                             Chair: Mary Hawkesworth, Women’s & Gender Studies

                                   Cora Kaplan, English, Queen Mary College/University of London

                                   Ferris Olin, Institute for Women & Art and Margery Somers Foster Center

                                   Nancy Hewitt, History and Women’s & Gender Studies

                              Respondent: Temma Kaplan, History

3:30-4:00               Break

4:00-5:30               Futures  

                            Chair: Dorothy L. Hodgson, IRW and Anthropology

                                   Ethel Brooks, Women’s & Gender Studies and Sociology

                                   Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology

                                   Julie Livingston, History

5:30 - 6:30             Reception

For more information, please contact the IRW at 732-932-9072 or irw@rci.rutgers.edu.