This incredible day will bring together three generations to witness, respond to and analyze present day realities in law, politics, the confluence of race, class, gender, women’s continuing “credibility problem, black masculinity, sexual harassment and the impact and legacy of Anita Hill’s courageous testimony about workplace sexual harassment.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Anita Hill, Brandeis University
EVENING GALA: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER” curated and directed EVE ENSLER
CONFERENCE PARTNERS: Hunter College, VDay
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
(Schedule is still in formation; updates will be available by September 2011. All panelists listed below are confirmed.)
Session I: WITNESSES: “WHAT HAPPENED?”
Panelists:
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School.
Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, NY-28
Vita Rabinowitz, Hunter College
Jamia Wilson, Women’s Media Center
Moderator: Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
Session II: RESPONDERS: WHAT DOES ANITA HILL MEAN TO YOU?
Panelists:
Rha Goddess, Move the Crowd
Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane University
Emily May, Hollaback!
Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Joanne N. Smith, Girls for Gender Equity
Moderator: Maria Hinojosa, NPR/PBS
Session III: ANALYSIS: “WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 20 YEARS AND WHAT COMES NEXT?”
Panelists:
Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law
Kimberlé Crenshaw, UCLA School of Law
Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine
Virginia Valian, Hunter College
Patricia J. Williams, Columbia University
Julie Zeilinger, FBomb
Moderator: Kathleen Peratis, Outten & Golden LLP
Evening Gala: HONORING ANITA HILL: “WHY WE NEED TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.”
A one-night only performance curated and directed by world renowned activist, playwright, Eve Ensler.
Featuring writing and performances by:
Edwidge Danticat
Asali Njeri DeVan
Eve Ensler
Lisa Kron
Lynn Nottage
Mary Oliver
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
CO-SPONSORED BY:
ACLU Women’s Rights Project
American Association of University Women
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Black Women’s Blueprint
Brandeis University Women and Gender Studies Program
Brooklyn College Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism
Brooklyn College Women’s Center
Brooklyn College Women’s Studies Program
CUNY Graduate Center: Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
CUNY Graduate Center: The Center for the Study of Women & Society
CUNY Graduate Center: Political Science Program
CUNY Law School
Equal Rights Advocates
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Girls for Gender Equity
Hollaback!
The Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine
Jack & Jill Politics
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Macaulay Honors College
Ms. Foundation for Women
The Nation
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council for Research on Women
National Women’s Law Center
Outten & Golden LLP
Pace Law School
Purchase College/SUNY
Queens College Graduate Center and Women’s Studies Department
RightRides for Women’s Safety
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Stop Street Harassment
University at Albany History Department
University at Albany Department of Sociology
University at Albany Women’s Studies Department
University at Albany Division of Student Success
University of Connecticut Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
Stop Street Harassment
Third Wave Foundation
The White House Project
Women’s City Club
Women’s eNews
Women’s Media Center
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
anitahill20@hunter.cuny.edu
