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Women in Politics: Past, Present and Future
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS - REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017
Registration information available through The Benjamin Center
Friday, April 21, FDR Library Highlights
$75 includes Cocktail Reception & Dinner
(Almost sold out)
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
2:00 pm Arrival & Registration
Opportunity to explore the museum
4:00 pm Greetings & Theme Setting: Milstein Auditorium
Paul Sparrow, Director, FDR Presidential Library & Museum
Marissa Shorenstein, President of AT&T New York
Susan Lewis, Conference Chair, Department of History, SUNY New Paltz
4:30 pm Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, introduced by Marissa Shorenstein
5:00 pm Women in Politics: Women @ Work 2017 NYS Views on Women (VOW) Poll*
Dr. Eve Waltermaurer, Director of Research & Evaluation, The Benjamin Center, SUNY New Paltz
5:15 pm Stories of Success: Women Winning & Leading
Moderator: Capital Tonight Host Liz Benjamin
Panelists:
State Senator Marisol Alcantara (District 31)
Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen Jimino
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan
Christine Quinn (Speaker of the New York City Council (2006–2013)
6:00 pm Cocktail Reception & Toast, Lobby
Wylecia Wiggs Harris, Chief Executive Officer, League of Women Voters of the US
Dare Thompson, President, League of Women Voters of NYS
7:00 pm Dinner, Multipurpose Room
8:00 pm Keynote Address
"Eleanor Roosevelt, the Politician, and Woman Suffrage: A Conversation with Allida Black and Anne Lewis"
* The View on Women (VOW) Poll New York State surveyed 1,050 randomly selected adults just after the 2017 Presidential election. This inter-disciplinary, multi-investigator, on-line survey, is the first comprehensive, single source metric focusing specifically on social perceptions of women, and the gender gaps that remain in the legal, political, social, economic and “private” spheres.
Saturday, April 22, SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center
$35 includes Breakfast & Lunch
8:00 am Check-in & Continental Breakfast, South Lobby
8:30 Greetings & Theme Setting
LC 100 President Donald Christian
NYS Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul
Kathleen Dowley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science & International Relations; Coordinator Women’s
Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
9:00 am Concurrent Sessions
LC 102 “1917: How Did Women Win the Vote in New York State?”
Moderator: Susan Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, SUNY New Paltz
Panelists:
Susan Goodier, Ph.D., Lecturer in History, SUNY Oneonta
Karen Pastorello, Ph.D., Professor of History, Tompkins-Cortland Community College
Lauren Santangelo, Ph.D., Author, The ‘Feminized’ City: New York and Suffrage, 1870-1917
LC 104 “Women in Government Today”
Moderator: Ş. İlgü Özler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science & Director, SUNY Global Engagement
Program
Panelists:
KT Tobin, Ph.D., Associate Director, The Benjamin Center
Kira Sanbonmatsu, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science & Senior Scholar, Center for Women in Politics, Rutgers
University
Pamela Paxton, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
10:15 am Coffee Break, South Lobby
10:30 am Concurrent Sessions
LC 102 “After the Vote: Women in Social and Political Movements"
Moderator: Meg Devlin O’Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History & Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies,
SUNY New Paltz
Panelists:
Joanna Grossman, Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
Julie Gallagher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor History and Women’s Studies, Penn State
Jennifer Guglielmo, Ph.D., Professor of History, Smith College
LC 104 “The Limits of Suffrage in a Liberal Democracy”
Moderator: Kathleen Dowley, Ph.D., SUNY New Paltz
Panelists:
Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Vassar College
Amy Baehr, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University
Kate Manne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University
11:45 pm Lunch, South Lobby
12:30 pm Keynote Address
“Which Way Forward? Freedom Organizing in the Twenty-first Century”
LC 100 Barbara Smith, Black Feminist Author & Activist
1:15 pm “Women in New York State: The Unfinished Agenda”
LC 102 Moderator: Jessica Pabón, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, SUNY New Paltz
Panelists:
Kelly Baden, Director of State Advocacy, Center for Reproductive Rights
Katherine Cross, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Irene Jor, New York Organizer, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Callie Jayne, Community Organizer, Citizen Action of New York
LC 104 K-12 Teacher Workshop
Incorporating Women’s Political History into K-12 curriculum
Sponsored by Mohonk Mountain House
“Women in Politics” is a collaborative project of The Benjamin Center, SUNY New Paltz Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and Departments of History Political Science & Sociology, FDR Library & Museum, AT&T, Hudson River Valley Greenway, League of Women Voters of NYS, and Rockefeller Institute of Government.
The conference is supported, in part, by funds from the SUNY New Paltz Office of Academic Affairs, the New York State Women’s Suffrage Commission, the NYS Legislative Women's Caucus, and Friends of the Benjamin Center. Thanks to Humanities NY, Mohonk Mountain House, and Shmaltz Brewing Company for principal sponsorships.
