The Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute supports collaborative research among Smith College faculty, students and visiting scholars without regard to the traditional boundaries of departments, programs and academic divisions. Each year the Institute supports long-term and short-term projects proposed, planned and organized by members of the Smith College faculty.

Upcoming Kahn Institute Events

• The Feminine Mystique Revisited: The Impact of Feminism on Marriage and Family Life
  A lecture by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, and author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. This lecture will be followed by a book signing by the author. Presented by the Kahn Institute project Mothers & Others: Reproduction, Representation and the Body Politic. Free and open to the public. Click here for more information.
  Monday, December 3, 7:00pm :: Carroll Room, Campus Center