Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship (2006)

Conference Program

8:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome and Introduction

Aaron D. Twerski, Hofstra School of Law
Linda C. McClain, Hofstra School of Law

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Keynote Address: Equality: Still Illusive After All These Years?

Martha Albertson Fineman, Emory University School of Law

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

I. Constitutional Citizenship and Gender

Beverley Baines, Queen's University Faculty of Law
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago School of Law
Tracy Higgins, Fordham University School of Law
Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science
Linda C. McClain, Hofstra School of Law

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Luncheon and Presentation - Media Presentation: Visualizing the Borders of Women's Citizenship

Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Leeds Morelli & Brown Atrium, Second Floor, Hofstra Law School

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

II. Democratic Citizenship and Gender

Kathryn Abrams, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Jane Maslow Cohen, University of Texas School of Law
Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science
Anne Peters, University of Basel Faculty of Law
Amy Baehr, Hofstra University Department of Philosophy

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

III. Cultural Citizenship and Gender

Karima Bennoune, Rutgers University - Newark, Center for Law & Justice
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, NYU School of Law
Anisseh Van Engeland-Nourai, Institut d'Etudes Politiques
Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University Department of Sociology

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Dinner and Photography Presentation: Captured in the Dark: 19th Century Spectatorship and the Construction of Gender, Race and Nationality

Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University Department of Speech, Communication Rhetroic and Performance Studies

Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th Floor, Axinn Library

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

IV. Sexual and Reproductive Citizenship and Gender

Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
Maxine Eichner, University of North Carolina School of Law
Carol Sanger, Columbia University School of Law
Mary Lyndon Shanley, Vassar College Department of Political Science
Cheryl Mwaria, Hofstra University Department of Anthropology

9:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

V. Social Citizenship and Gender

Martha McCluskey, SUNY Buffalo School of Law
Katherine Silbaugh, Boston University School of Law
Joan Williams, University of California, Hastings College of Law
Joanna Grossman, Hofstra Law School

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Luncheon

Leeds Morelli & Brown Atrium, Second Floor, Hofstra Law School

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

VI. Global Citizenship and Gender

Deborah Anker, Harvard Law School
Susanne Baer, Humboldt University Faculty of Law
Elizabeth Schneider, Brooklyn Law School
Deborah Weissman, University of North Carolina School of Law
Nora V. Demleitner, Hofstra School of Law
Barbara Stark, Hofstra School of Law

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM