14th Annual Kathleen Ridder Conference
in honor of Mickey Glazer’s 41 years of teaching at Smith College
“ORDINARY PEOPLE: EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE AND HOPE”
MARCH 31, 2006
William Allan Neilson Browsing Room
Friday, March 31, 2006
9am
Welcome: Carol Christ, President, Smith College
Susan Bourque, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Smith College
9:30am
Panel 1, Exposing the Harassment of African-American Women
Chair: Christine M. Shelton, Exercise and Sport Studies, and Co-Chair of the Project on
Women and Social Change
Keynote: Cathy Harris, U.S. Customs Service Whistleblower
Commentator: Helen Lee ’04
10:30am
Break and refreshments
10:45am
Panel 2, Studying Courage: Seeking Justice
Chair: Marc Steinberg, Chair of Sociology, Smith College
Danielle Brian ‘85, Executive Director of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
Lauren Robinson ’04, Development Associate, Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
Barbara “Boe” Morgan ’04, Law Student, Vermont Law School
Amelia Kegan ’05, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Commentator: Leslie King, Department of Sociology, Smith College
2pm
Panel 3, Courageous Resisters Seek a Better World: Confronting the Gestapo, the
Argentine Military, and Other Purveyors of Violence
Chair: Paula O’Loughlin ’86, University of Minnesota at Morris
Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University, “The Rosenstrasse Women Confront the
Gestapo”
Kristina E. Thalhammer, St. Olaf College, “The Madres of the Plaza del Mayo Search for the
Disappeared”
Sam G. McFarland, Western Kentucky University, “Can the U.N. Prevent Future
Genocides?”
Sharon Toffey Shepela, Hillyer College/University of Hartford, “Finding the Courage to
Resist”
Commentators: Joshua L. Glazer, University of Michigan and Penina Migdal Glazer,
Professor Emeritus, Hampshire College
4pm
Please join us for a reception in honor of Mickey Glazer’s 41 years of teaching at Smith
College