3:00 4:00

Registration Keynote: "Insider/Outsider: An Historian Looks at Social Movements," Linda Gordon, Professor of History, New York University

5:15		Reception sponsored by the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute in connection with its project: "From Local to Global: Community Activism in the New Millenium"
		Dinner on your own
8:00		Videos on women’s activism "Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977" "The Righteous Babes"
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
8:00		Registration
9:00		Morning Plenary: "'I Was Appalled': The Invisible Antecedents of Second Wave Feminism" Linda Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, University of Iowa
10:30		Workshops Feminist Organizing 1919-1963 New collection: Dorothy Kenyon Processing archivist: Kate Weigand Facilitators: Kate Weigand and Dan Horowitz Professional Women Fighting for Social Justice New collections: Jessie Lloyd O’Connor and Mary Kaufman Processing archivists: Amy Hague (O'Connor); Margaret Jessup (Kaufman) Facilitators: Kathleen Banks Nutter and Maurice Isserman Equal Justice Under Law? Race and Reform New collection: Constance Baker Motley Processing archivists: Margaret Jessup and Marla Miller Facilitator: Nancy MacLean
12:00		Lunch on your own
1:30		Afternoon Plenary: "Successes and Failures of Feminism" Barbara Epstein, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz
3:00		Workshops   Persistence and Transformation: The Women’s Action Alliance and the Feminist Movement, 1971-1997 New collections: Gloria Steinem, The Women’s Action Alliance Participants: Gloria Steinem, Brenda Feigen (founder of WAA) Processing archivists: Marla Miller and Amanda Izzo Facilitators: Nancy Whittier and Marla Miller   Grassroots Organizing New collections: Frances Fox Piven, National Congress of Neighborhood Women Processing archivists: Marla Miller (Piven) and Margaret Jessup (NCNW) Participants: Frances Fox Piven, Jan Peterson (founder of NCNW) Facilitators: Martha Ackelsberg and Eileen Boris

 

4:30		Permanent Wave: the Next Generation
		Rebecca Walker and Amy Richards (co-founders of Third Wave Foundation) and Erin Howe (Smith College student activist) Facilitator: Crystal Daugherty

6:30		Buffet dinner(prepayment required)
8:00		Roundtable: Another Century of Struggle Several conference participants - academics and activists spanning three generations – interact with the audience to assess the day’s proceedings and propose agendas for research and activism. Participants: Linda Gordon, Jan Peterson, Frances Fox Piven, Amy Richards, Gloria Steinem, Rebecca Walker Moderator: Dan Horowitz

 

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