In the Company of Scholars:
Yale Women In A Changing World
Post Conference Resources

April 30 & May 1, 2004
Susanna E. Krentz ’80, Chair

Conference Program

Friday, April 30, 2004

Registration
8:00–9:45 am
Rose Alumni House

Conference participants will check in and receive their packet of materials for the conference program. The packet will include the final program, as well as name badges and other materials. Information on assignments to individual breakout sessions will also be provided at registration.

Welcome—In the Company of Scholars:
Yale Women in a Changing World
10:00–10:15 am

Conference Chair Susanna Krentz ’80, an officer of the AYA’s Board of Governors, will open the conference and provide an overview of the events of the next two days.

The Gender of Globalization
10:15am–12:00 noon

In this plenary session, Yale faculty and alumnae will explore the role of women in relation to issues of globalization. After an overview from Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law and a co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum, panelists will address issues such as Human Rights/Women’s Rights; Equality and Economic Development: the Sex of Citizenship; and Women As Migrants.

Luncheon: Issue Roundtables
12:15–1:45 pm

After an introduction to the structure and work of the Women Faculty Forum, conference participants will join faculty members at small tables for lunch and conversation. Each faculty member will convene a session on a topic in her particular area of scholarship and will be joined by an alumna as co-convener. Please see the registration form to sign up for the broad topic area of most interest to you, and you will be placed with a faculty member working within that area of study. A roster of the members of the WFF Council can be found at the back of this booklet.

Women’s Health Research
Evolving Knowledge and Changing Practice
2:00–4:15 pm

Conference participants will reconvene in the afternoon to learn about the new, emerging field of women’s health research, and hear about discoveries being generated by Yale investigators that directly affect the health and lives of women. Prior to the mid- 1990s, fully two-thirds of all diseases that affect both women and men were studied exclusively in men. It was not until 1993 that the National Institutes of Health required that women be included in clinical research trials in order to remediate our understanding of the health of women. Participants will learn of Yale’s response to this challenge through the efforts of an innovative program, Women’s Health Research at Yale, in a short plenary address by Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the program. Participants will then have the opportunity to attend breakout sessions targeting the latest developments in which interdisciplinary research is being conducted by Yale faculty affiliated with Women’s Health Research at Yale. In the breakouts, participants will have the opportunity to hear from faculty and alumnae who are leaders in the areas of research and health policy, followed by Q&A. Breakout sessions will include topics such as Women and Heart Disease; Osteoporosis; and Gender, Stress, and Depression.

Reception and Dinner
5:30–7:30 pm

Join other participants and many women Yale faculty members for networking and socializing over a casual dinner in University Commons. The dinner is being arranged as a relaxed buffet with many food stations and flexible seating arrangements, so that conference participants and faculty can use the time to mix and meet with as many others as possible.

An Evening of Yale Women and Song
7:30–8:30 pm

Yale women have made rich contributions to the cultural life of Yale and the world at large. Tonight we will have the opportunity to appreciate the talents of women students as performers.

Reception in the Presidents’ Room
8:30–10:30 pm

For those who wish, the Presidents’ Room over Woolsey Hall will remain open as a wonderful place to linger and socialize for the remainder of the evening. Light desserts and refreshments will be served.

Saturday, May 1, 2004

Yale Women and Leadership
9:00 am–12:00 noon

Yale’s women graduates are now working in the forefront of every field, both in the United States and abroad. On Saturday morning, we will begin with a short plenary featuring Janet Yellen ’71 PhD, the former chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and a current trustee of the Yale Corporation, who will moderate a panel of opening remarks about the challenges and choices facing Yale women as they experience life after Yale. Attendees will then participate in a series of small group sessions. The first session will bring together a convener and women who share similar fields of primary endeavor: politics, public service, business, philanthropy, academia, health care, home and family, primary and secondary school education, non-profit organizations, and other fields. The second breakout session will cut across fields of endeavor and bring together those who experienced Yale at about the same time. In both series of breakouts, Yale women will be discussing topics ranging from work life/family life concerns to issues of career advancement, the nature of leadership training and development, compensation equity, mentoring, and networking.

Conference Closing Luncheon:
Views from the Women of Yale’s Administration
12:15–1:45 pm

Three of Yale’s seven senior administrative officers are women: Provost Susan Hockfield, Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer ’77 JD, and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson. All three will join the conference participants at lunch for a brief panel discussion about their work and their views on the changing role of women in leading Yale itself.

Optional Activities for Saturday Afternoon

For those participants who wish to extend their stay on campus into Saturday afternoon or evening, we are arranging extraordinary opportunities for you to engage in Yale’s rich culture in the performing and fine arts. Here are the possibilities currently under development, and more information will be sent to you at a later date.

Yale Women Artists

The Yale School of Art has become known for training superb artists, and New Haven itself is home to a growing number of women artists. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with women faculty and student artists who work in a variety of media at the Yale School of Art.

Yale Center for British Art

Director Amy Meyers is working with us to develop a private tour for participants of the incomparable collection at the BAC, the finest collection of British art outside Great Britain. The tour will focus on the contributions of women to British art as artists, patrons, and subjects.

Yale Repertory Theatre

On Saturday evening, the Rep will be conducting a preview performance of The Mystery Plays, two intertwined mysteries of death, the afterlife, faith and forgiveness unfolding from one coast to the other. This will be the play’s world premiere, after which it will begin a run at New York’s Second Stage Theatre. We hope to hold a pre-play discussion with the play’s director, Constance Grappo ’95 MFA, and some of the actresses who will be performing in the evening production.