Upcoming Events - 2012
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FEATURED UPCOMING BU LAW EVENTS
BU Law's Reunion Gala Dinner and Silver Shingle Awards Presentation
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Save the date for BU Law's 2012 Reunion Gala Dinner and Silver Shingle Awards! Additional event details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Evaluating Claims about “the End of Men”: Legal and Other Perspectives
Friday, October 12 & Saturday, October 13, 2012
This interdisciplinary conference will evaluate claims about “the end of men” and consider implications for law and policy. “The end of men,” a phrase coined by journalist Hanna Rosin, captures the proposition that women have made remarkable progress in all domains and men have suffered such declines and reversals, so that women are effectively surpassing men, and becoming the dominant sex. This conference will evaluate empirical assertions about men’s and women’s comparative status in concrete domains, such as education, the workplace, and the family. Feminist diagnoses of discrimination have fueled changes in law and policy, as well as cultural norms. Should recent claims about the status of men likewise prompt redress? The conference will examine how the data supporting claims about the end of men – and progress of women -- looks once differentiated by class, race, region, and other categories. It will provide historical perspectives on current anxieties about imbalances between men’s and women’s power, opportunities, and status. The conference will also put end of men claims in comparative and international perspective, asking whether they are distinctive to the United States. This lecture will be published in the Boston University Law Review.
Friday, October 12
Keynote Address
Hanna Rosin, author of “The End of Men,” Atlantic (Aug. 2010) and forthcoming book
Commentators on Address
Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stonybrook
Ralph Richard Banks, Stanford Law SchoolPanel 1: One Hundred Years of the “End of Men”: Historical Perspectives
Kris Collins, Boston University School of Law
Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College
Lynda Dodd, City College of New York, CUNY
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Martin Summers, Boston College, History Dept.Lunch Address
Joan Williams, University of California Hastings College of Law
Panel 2: Employment
Michael Harper, Boston University School of Law
A nn McGinley, University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Law
Michael Selmi, George Washington School of Law
Kingsley R. Browne, Wayne State University Law SchoolPanel 3: Family
Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law
Ralph Richard Banks, Stanford Law School
Naomi Cahn, George Washington School of Law
June Carbone, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Kathryn Edin, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Daniel L. Hatcher, University of Baltimore School of Law
Saturday, October 13Panel 4: Education
Katherine Silbaugh, Boston University School of Law
Dr. Anthony Rao, Behavioral Solutions
Caryl Rivers, Boston University College of Communications
Rosemary Salomone, St. Johns University School of LawPanel 5: Comparative and International Perspectives on “the End of Men”
Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago School of Law
Shahla Haeri, Boston University Department of Anthropology
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota School of Law
Julie Suk, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva UniversityPanel 6: Could These Both Be True?: Reconciling “the End of Men” with Women’s Continuing Inequality
Khiara Bridges, Boston University School of Law
Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, College Park
Frank Rudy Cooper, Suffolk University School of Law
Nancy Dowd, University of Florida School of Law
Additional details regarding this conference, including a conference agenda, will be posted as soon as they are available. For academic questions, please contact Professor of Law, Linda C. McClain. For event related questions, please contact BU Law's Events & PR Manager, Elizabeth Aggott.