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THE MONTICELLO CONFERENCE

Each year the Monticello College Foundation and Washington University join in sponsoring a conference on women in higher education and the professions.  Olin Fellows are invited to participate in the conference events and to share their experiences with nationally recognized figures in business, government, higher education, and the professions who speak at the conference.

OVERVIEW OF CONFERENCES
 

2005 Preliminary conference schedule
2004 Gender Roles: A Generation of Change
Susan Faludi, journalist and author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
2003  
2002 Food, Culture, and Gender
Dr. Carole Counihan, Professor of Anthropology, Millersville University
2001 Women’s Violence
Wendy Chan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, and author of Women, Murder, and Justice
2000 Woman to Woman: Women’s Relationships as Friends and at Work 
Dr. Ruthellen Josselson, Professor, The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California, and co-author of Best Friends
1999 Definitions of Success, 25th Anniversary  Conference
Dr. Mary Maples Dunn, Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
1998 Girl or Woman?  The Status of Female Adolescents
Peggy Orenstein, journalist & author of SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
1997 Women at Work in a Changing Economy
Heidi Hartman, Director of the Institute for Women's Policy Research
1996 International Women's Rights: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, Director of the U.S. Delegation to the 1995 U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing
1995 Enlarging the Picture:  Women in the Arts
Michelle Citron, film director and Ph.D., Profesor of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
1994 Mightier than the Sword:  The Power of the Written Word
20th Anniversary Conference
Nadine Gordimer, novelist and short story writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature
1993 Pornography and Free Speech:  What are the Stakes for Women?
Kathleen Mahoney, LL.M., Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, the University of Calgary, Alberta; Nadine Strossen, J.D., President, American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law, New York Law School
1992 Are Health Care and Biomedical Research Women's Issues?
Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow
1991 Multicultural Perspectives of Women Writers
Jamaica Kincaid, author and staff writer for The New Yorker
1990 Women in Power:  Is the View Different?
The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States of America
1989 Education and Empowerment: Preparing Women for a New Century
Johnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., President, Spelman College
1988 Mothering:  Ideals, Imperatives, and Choices
Marilyn French, author and Ph.D.
1987 Women and Religion
Carol P. Christ, Ph.D., Professor of Women's Studies and Religious Studies, San Jose State University
1986 Women Without Choices
Susan Sheehan, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and staff writer for The New Yorker
1985 The Values of Women & Men:  Are There Differences?
Dr. Sharry Langdale, Assistant Professor of Human Development, University of New Hampshire in Durham and Research Associate, Harvard University
1984 From Access to Ascent:  The New Challenge for Professional Women
Juanita Kreps, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Economics, Duke University, and United States Secretary of Commerce under President Carter
1983 Changing Perspectives in Medicine
Virginia V. Weldon, M.D., Deputy Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine
1982 Women in the Performing Arts
Beverly Sills, General Director, New York City Opera
1981 Women and Power:  Realities for the 80s
Betty Friedan, feminist author and founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
1980 Creative Women
Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist
1979 Choices for Women
Jill Conway, author and President of Smith College
1978 What Does Science Have to Say About Women?
Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel Laureate; Lady Jean Medawar
1977 Women and the News
Sally Quinn, journalist, Washington Post
1976 Sex Roles in American Society
Eleanor Macoby, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
1975 The Status of Women in Higher Education and the Professions
Juanita M. Kreps, James B. Duke Professor and Vice President of Duke University

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