Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus will host two programs this fall exploring the situation for women. With last week's reading by Alice Walker, the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies committee kicked off an ambitious series titled "Gender at the Millennium," to inquire into the issues affecting women and men as the millennium approaches...
...Amidst the apocalyptic clamor surrounding the millennium, this six-week series represents a modest attempt to slow the pace of celebration and anxiety," said Ann Pellegrini '86, assistant professor of English. "En route to the 21st century, we ask how women and gender might help us to think and enact the future with a feminist critical difference...
...Gender at the Millennium" is co-sponsored by the Women in Public Policy program at the Kennedy School and by Radcliffe College, and funding for the events if being provided by a variety of organizations. Pellegrini says she sees this cooperation as an indication of progress...
Today's event, which is the next event in the series, will be a panel discussion titled "History's End: Historicizing the Millennium." Led by Katherine A. Park, Stone Radcliffe professor of history of science and professor of women's studies, it will include Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza of the Divinity School and Deborah Valenze, an associate professor of history at Barnard College. According to Park, the panelists will "look back in time to the ways in which men and women have imagined what they saw as their own impending millennial moments...
Though the speakers and organizers of the event stressed the importance of opening a dialogue on all issues as the millennium approaches, they all said it is particularly vital to explore gender issues at this point in history...