Word: panels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipated that last week's panel on feminism at Harvard would suffer from such an unstructured debate, and to a certain extent it did. After all, as the panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...
...those of us at the panel walked away with anything, it should have been that seemingly fundamental definition and the will to share it with others. Thirty years ago, you might have been hard-pressed to put six people--three liberals and three conservatives--on a public platform and reach such a moral and political conclusion...
Last week's panel has formed the basis for a much more in-depth discussion of feminism and the role of women at Harvard. The nitty-gritty details get more complicated, of course. The most proactive feminist on the panel defined feminism as a way of life. The conservative males in turn said that feminism was in fact a legal force that had succeeded in its goal of making women equal...
What our country needs, Professor Michael J. Sandel said only half-jokingly in a panel discussion last night, is a presidential debate between Patrick J. Buchanan and Professor Cornel R. West...
Yesterday's panel was inspired by West's latest book, "The Future of American Progressivism," written in collaboration with Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger...