As part of Scripps College’s Gen XX forum examining the future of gender and women’s studies at women’s colleges, two events – a keynote address and a theatrical presentation – are being offered to the public free of charge. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz will present the keynote address, How Change Happens, on Thursday, October 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bette Cree Edwards Humanities Auditorium at Scripps College. Clare Dalton will present a one-woman theatrical performance of Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own on Friday, October 10, at 8 p.m. in the Balch Auditorium at the Scripps Campus. For more information on the events, please contact 909-621-8280.
Scripps College, as it prepares to expand the work of its intercollegiate women’s studies program, is hosting the two-day forum in which presidents, faculty, and students from selected women’s colleges across the country will convene to discuss questions regarding the role of gender and women’s studies in a liberal arts context.
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in her keynote address, How Change Happens, will examine curricular change in a historical context, ultimately asking “how change happens” to bring about women’s studies programs in liberal arts colleges for women. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz teaches American studies and history, and is currently the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor in History at Smith College. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the author of Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America, which won the OAH Merle Curti Award. She is also editor of Landscape in Sight: Looking at America, among other works. Elected to the Society of American Historians in 1996, she earned her Ph.D. in American civilization from Harvard University.
Clare Dalton will perform Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own as part of the forum’s events. Clare Dalton is currently the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law at Northeastern School of Law. As a recognized legal scholar in the areas of domestic violence and feminist legal thought, Dalton wrote the controversial essay The Deconstruction of Contract Doctrine, which is considered a breakthrough analysis combining the field of contracts with modern feminist legal theory. Dalton is also the founder and executive director of Northeastern’s Domestic Violence Institute, a nationally recognized center for addressing domestic violence and its impact on the lives of women, children and men. She was named Feminist of the Year by the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1993. Dalton earned her L.L.M. at Harvard University.
In conjunction with these events, “Delights of Disclosure: The Artist Books of Julie Chen,” is on display at Denison Library at Scripps College. Julie Chen is the proprietor of Flying Fish Press in Berkeley, California. Her company creates and publishes sculptural limited edition artist books. Chen is also on faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California.