Schedule

• The Conference Schedule remains in formation and may continue to adjust.
  All speakers listed are confirmed.  Please check back here for updates.

  Both the conference and performance will be held at Hunter College
  The conference will be held at General Assembly Hall, located in the
  Hunter North Building. The performance will be held at the Kaye Playhouse

  • Saturday, October 15, 2011
    • 8:00 am - 5:00 pmRegistration opensNorth Lobby at Hunter College East 69th Street
      between Park and Lexington Avenues
    • 8:30 am - 5:00 pmDoors open for conference
    • 9:30 am - 9:45 amCONFERENCE STARTAmy Richards, Soap Box
      Deborah Slaner Larkin, USTA Serves
      Excerpts from Sex and Justice
          (feature length documentary by Julian Schlossberg)
      Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author, Conference Co-Chair
    • 9:45 am - 11:15 amSESSION 1: WITNESSES: What Happened?Dorothy J. Samuels, The New York Times; Moderator
      Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School
      Catharine A. MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School
      Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
      Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
      Jamia Wilson, Women’s Media Center
      
    • 11:30 am - 1:00 pmSESSION 2: RESPONDERS:
      What Does Anita Hill Mean To You?Pat Mitchell, The Paley Center for Media; Moderator
      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 Equality
      
    • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmLunch BreakDuring the lunch break, join one of these provocative and timely conversations hosted by conference co-sponsors:
      
      A. 20 years later, what can we do about sexual harassment in schools and the streets? — Sponsored by American Association of University Women (AAUW), Girls for Gender Equity (GGE), Stop Street Harassment (SSH)
      
      B. Sex, Power and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, — Sponsored by Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
      
      C. What can the movement to end street harassment learn from the movement to end workplace harassment? — Sponsored by Hollaback!
      
      D. Radical Hospitality for Women Authoring Change: Building a “New Girls’ Network” to Support Women Writers Who Speak Truth to Power, — Hosted by Hedgebrook: Women Authoring Change ­
      
      E. Why We Should Care About Military Women, — Sponsored by Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) ­­
      
      F. Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Schools, — Sponsored by ACLU Women’s Rights Project
      
      G. Leveraging Social Media to Impact Social Change, — Sponsored by National Center for Research on Women (NCRW)
      
      H. The Victories of Young Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Queer Folks who are Challenging Discrimination in the Criminal/Legal Systems, — Sponsored by Third Wave Foundation
      
      I. Teaching Intersectionality: The Importance of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Sponsored by Hunter College’s Women and Gender Studies Program
    • 2:30 pm - 2:45 pmRECONVENEGreeting: Jennifer Raab, Hunter College
      
      Introduction of Honoree Anita Hill:
      Patricia J. Williams, Columbia University; Conference Organizing Committee

      KEYNOTE: A CONVERSATION WITH ANITA HILL

      Anita Hill, Brandeis University
      Patricia J. Williams, Columbia University
    • 3:45 pm - 5:30 pmSESSION 3: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 20 YEARS
      & WHAT COMES NEXT?Kathleen Peratis, Outten & Golden, LLP. (Moderator)
      Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law
      Kimberlé Crenshaw, The African American Policy Network
      Gloria Steinem, Co-founder of Ms. Magazine
      Virginia Valian, Hunter College
      Julie Zeilinger, FBomb
      
    • 5:30 pm - 5:35 pmCONFERENCE CLOSINGVita Rabinowitz, Hunter College
    • 5:45 pm - 6:30 pmBook signing with Anita hill
    • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmDoors open for performanceThe performance will be held at the Kaye Playhouse
    • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmPERFORMANCE: “SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER”A performance Co-Curated by Eve Ensler and Purva Panday Cullman.
      Featuring works and/or performance by:
      Edwidge Danticat
      Asali Devan Ecclesiastes
      Eve Ensler
      Deborah Copaken Kogan
      Lisa Kron
      Lynn Nottage
      Olivia Oguma
      Mary Oliver
      Kevin Powell
      Anika Noni Rose
      Hope Anita Smith