Welcoming Plenary. Social Science and Human Rights

Thursday, August 10, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

UNESCO’s Pierre Sané (formerly Secretary General of Amnesty International) will discuss his work developing new programs of research-policy linkages in the study and management of social transformation. These include strengthening the interactions among researchers, policy makers, and International bodies such as UNESCO towards advancing programs in human rights and development, gender and women’s rights, racism and discrimination, poverty, and development of civil society.

Organizer and Presider: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Graduate Center,City University of New York

Introduction: Val Moghadam, Chief, Gender Equity and Development Section, UNESCO

Speaker: Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO

Transgressing Sex Segregation: The Law, Social Science, and Social Policy

Friday, August 11, 12:30-2:15 p.m.

This session will explore the work of law, lawyers, and the judiciary in changing conceptual and legal boundaries defining the rights of women, men, and social groups. These speakers have all played prominent public roles in the United States and internationally, using the findings of social science to effect social change.

Women's Progress at the Bar and on the Bench. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Social Research and Social Change: The Case of Gender Work. Deborah Rhode, Stanford University

Law's Migration. Judith Resnik, Yale University

ASA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address

Saturday, August 12, 430-6:30 p.m.

Presentation of the general ASA awards and the Presidential Address by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, "Cognitive Boundaries: The Social Basis of the Global Subjugation of Women."

Transgressing Distinctions of Gender and Race

Monday, August 14, 12:30-2:15 p.m.

Inequalities of race and gender are not only institutionalized in society but are deeply rooted in public and private consciousness. Attitudes toward people in these categories are deeply embedded in our social and political systems. The shifting nature of the collective response to these issues will be addressed by these speakers.

Organizer and Presider: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Breaking Out of Invisible Prisons.Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author

Race and Political Divides. Lawrence Bobo, Stanford University