Women in Political Studies (WIPS)
Graduate Faculty
New School for Social Research
present the
1st Interdisciplinary Conference
Celebrating
International Women’s Day
March 8, 2001
Wolff Conference Room
10.00-12.00: Gender, Law & the State
Cathrine Holst, Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science, New School University:
Feminism, Autonomy & the State: Normative Dilemmas of Scandinavian State Feminism
Marcos Soler: Department of Political Science, New school University:
Abortion in Comparative Perspective: EU and U.S. Decisions on Reproductive Freedoms and Information about Women’s Rights
Andras Laszo Pap, Visiting Scholar, New York University Law school:
Women’s Political Participation in Legislative organs
Commentator: Professor Mala Htun, Department of Political Science, New School University
1:00-3:00: Feminist Theory and Post-Structuralism
Veronica Perera, Department of Sociology, New School University:
Feminism and Post-Modernist Critique
Michael Weinman, Department of Philosophy, New School University:
“Toward a Critical Ontology of Ourselves: Butler, Kant, Foucault, and ‘Enlightenment”
Adrienne Stafford, Department of Political Science, New School University:
A Feminist Poststructural Economy
Commentator: Professor Malathi de Alwis, Department of Anthropology, New School University
3:30-5:30: Identity and the Public Sphere
Mariela Vargova, Department of Political Science, New School University:
The Global Public Sphere and Claims of Social Justice: Critical Reflections on Politico-Theoretical Models
Denise Walsh, Department of Political Science, New School University:
Women’s Rights and Civil Society
Claudia Leeb, Department of Political Science, New School University:
A Feminist Critique of Karl Marx’s, Max Weber’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s Class Concepts
Commentator: Professor Sankar Muthu, Department of Political Science, New School University
KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 6:00-7:00:
Professor Jolanta Pekacz, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan
“The Enlightenment as Anti-Feminism”
A reception with food and drinks will follow the keynote address from 7:00-8:00 in the Wolff Conference Room.