Barnard Center for Research on Women Advance at the Earth Institute at Columbia University
December 9-10, 2004
Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to 'Post-Civil Rights Era' Gender Discrimination
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Program

Thursday December 9th

5:30-7:00
cocktail reception
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall

7:00-8:30
Public panel discussion
Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Nancy Hopkins, Claude Steele, Virginia Valian

Friday December 10th

9:00-10:00 AM
check-in
Barnard Hall Lobby
Breakfast
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Welcome
Janet Jakobsen (Director, Center for Research on Women)
Elizabeth Boylan (Provost, Barnard College)
Panel I: What we know: models, mechanisms, data
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Chair: Alison Wylie (Women's Studies and Philosophy, Barnard College)

  • Donna Ginther (Economics, University of Kansas)
  • Donna J. Nelson (Chemistry, University of Oklahoma)
  • Kimberlee A. Shauman (Sociology, UC-Davis)
  • Gerhard Sonnert (Physics, Harvard University)
  • Claude M. Steele (Psychology, Stanford)

12:00-2:00 PM
lunch
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall

2:00-3:45 PM
Panel II What we can learn from initiatives in the sciences
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Chair: Laura Kay (Astrophysics and Women's Studies, Barnard College)
Commentator: Alice Hogan (National Science Foundation)

  • Robin Bell (Lamont-Doherty Observatory, Columbia University)
  • Sally Chapman (Chemistry, Barnard College)
  • Stephanie Pfirman (Environmental Science, Barnard College)
  • Nancy Hopkins (Biology, MIT)
  • Sue Rosser (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Ellen Spertus (Computer Science, Mills College)
  • Abigail Stewart (Psychology, University of Michigan)

3:45-4:00 PM
coffee break

4:00-6:00 PM
Panel III: Broadening the scope: sites and strategies for change throughout academia
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Chair: Janet Jakobsen (Director, Center for Research on Women)

  • Constance Backhouse (Law, University of Ottawa)
  • Sandra Morgen (Center for the Study of Women in Society; Anthropology, University of Oregon)
  • Debra Rolison (Chemistry, Naval Research Laboratory)
  • Bernice Sandler (Senior Scholar, Women's Research and Education Institute)
  • Susan Sturm (Law, Columbia University)
  • Virginia Valian (Psychology, CUNY)

6:00-7:00 PM
cocktail reception South Tower

7:00-8:00 PM
dinner
North Tower

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