explore role of women at Yale
As part of its 300th birthday celebraion, Yale is hosting a conference examining the role of women at the University.
Titled "Gender Matters: Women at Yale," the conference will take place Thursday-Friday, Sept. 20-21, at the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The event is the result of a collaboration among women faculty from across the campus. In the brochure for the event, the organizers write: "The 300th anniversary of Yale University offers an opportunity to reflect on the roles women have played in the University and beyond it over the last past three centuries."
The conference opens on Friday with a panel on "Women and Universities," featuring two Yale alumnae who are serving as presidents of institutions of higher learning -- Nannerl O. Keohane '67 Ph.D. of Duke University and Nancy J. Vickers '76 Ph.D. of Bryn Mawr College -- and Johnnetta Cole, who received an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1991, president emerita of Spelman College and currently a faculty member at Emory University.
Saturday's program will begin with a look at "Invention: New Research Questions" featuring new Yale faculty member Seyla Benhabib '77 Ph.D.; Carnegie Institution president Maxine Singer '57 Ph.D.; historian Brenda Stevenson '90 Ph.D. of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); and psychologist Shelley E. Taylor '72 Ph.D. of UCLA.
The panel titled "Imagination: Center of the Arts" features three alumnae artists: architect and sculptor Maya Y. Lin '81, '86 M. Arch., novelist Gloria Naylor '83 M.A. and film producer Sarah Pillsbury '74.
Five alumnae will discuss "Leadership: Reinventing the Local and the Global." They are: Frances Beinecke '71, '74 M.F.S, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Marian Wright Edelman '63 LL.B., president of the Children's Defense Fund; Sally Stansfield '77 residency internship, a Global Health Program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and Patricia M. Wald '51 LL.B., American judicial representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The final panel of the conference, "Founders, Entrepreneurs and Activists," will feature Mishka Brown '97, cofounder and chief executive officer of Aerolith Incorporated; Heidi Hartmann '74 Ph.D., founder of the Institute for Women's Policy Research; and Linda Mason '80 M.B.A., chair and cofounder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Attendance at the conference is limited; those interested can sign up for the conference online at www.yale.edu/yale300/gendermatters. For further information, call (203) 432-8847.
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