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For Immediate Release: January 8, 2002
Contact: Tom Krattenmaker
610-328-8534
tkratte1@swarthmore.edu
http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/

 

"Rediscovering Jane Addams" at Swarthmore College

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Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. Her impact on democracy, U.S. social policy, and international peace efforts will be discussed by biographers and scholars of her work at Swarthmore College on February 1-2 during a conference that is free and open to the public. (See the following program for a schedule of events.)

"Addams had an optimism about the prospects and promises of a multicultural America," says Carol Nackenoff, a professor of political science at Swarthmore and a conference organizer. "Both her peace work and progressive views of domestic policy are relevant today, especially because of recent debates about immigration and the provision of social services to non-citizens."

Renowned author and political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain will give the conference's keynote address. Elshtain, a professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago, is the author Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy and the editor of The Jane Addams Reader, both published last fall. Elshtain's treatise on the decline of civil society, Democracy on Trial (1995), established her reputation as a public intellectual. (Her photo is available upon request.)

Sponsors of the conference include the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, the repository of many of Jane Addams' papers; the departments and offices of political science, peace and conflict studies, history, women's studies, and the president; the William Cooper Foundation; the William I. Hull Fund; and a grant made possible by the D'Olier Foundation. For registration information, please complete the on-line form or call (610) 328-8557.
Rediscovering Jane Addams: Conference Program

Friday, February 1, 2002

Keynote Address and Panel Discussion
"Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy" by
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
7:30 p.m. in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

Reception to follow
Saturday, February 2, 2002

Group Sessions
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Kohlberg Hall, Scheuer Room

Session 1: U.S. Social Policy
9:00-10:20 a.m.
Speakers: Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University
Wendy Sarvasy, California State University, Hayward
Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College
Discussants: Majorie Murphy, Swarthmore College
Sanford Schram, Graduate School of Social Work and
Social Research, Bryn Mawr College

Coffee Break: 10:20-10:40 a.m.

Session 2: Jane Addams Resources Roundtable
10:40-12:00 noon

Discussants: Mary Lynn Bryan, editor of The Jane Addams Papers
Julia Hendry, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
Peggy Glowacki, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Margaret Strobel, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Luncheon 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.
(cost = $15 per person)

Session 3: Internationalism and Peace
1:30-2:50 p.m.
Speakers: Kathryn K. Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton
Harriet Alonso, City College of New York
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University
Joyce Blackwell-Johnson, Meredith College
Discussant:
Regene Silver, Villanova University

Coffee Break 2:50-3:10 p.m.

Session 4: Biography of Jane Addams
3:10-4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Allen F. Davis, Temple University
Victoria Brown, Grinnell College
Louise Knight, Northwestern University
Discussant: Robert Bannister, Swarthmore College

 

 

 

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