Conference to explore how feminist scholarship has revolutionized knowledge

"The Knowledge Revolution," a conference exploring how three decades of feminist scholarship has changed the nature of knowledge in a range of disciplines, will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 2. The event commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and will be held at the Stanford Humanities Center at 424 Santa Teresa St. The gathering is free and open to the public but participants are requested to call (650) 723-5829 to register.

IRWG Director Londa Schiebinger will open the conference at 1:30 p.m. The opening plenary will focus on the revolution in knowledge in the East and the West, featuring presentations by Karen Offen, an IRWG senior scholar, and Wang Zheng, an associate professor of women's studies at the University of Michigan. Five concurrent workshops will then explore topics including the complexities of veiling in the Middle East, the bio-politics of late motherhood, raising boys in the 21st century and how feminist scholarship has changed the way society views art. The closing plenary on the future of feminist scholarship will feature a conversation between IRWG Senior Scholar Marilyn Yalom; English Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, director of the American Studies Program; and Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, distinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York and president-elect of the American Sociological Association.

A reception honoring Yalom and the IRWG associates will take place after the conference at Serra House, 556 Salvatierra Walk.

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