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...Gender at the Millennium" is co-sponsored by the Women in Public Policy program at the Kennedy School and by Radcliffe College, and funding for the events if being provided by a variety of organizations. Pellegrini says she sees this cooperation as an indication of progress...
Today's event, which is the next event in the series, will be a panel discussion titled "History's End: Historicizing the Millennium." Led by Katherine A. Park, Stone Radcliffe professor of history of science and professor of women's studies, it will include Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza of the Divinity School and Deborah Valenze, an associate professor of history at Barnard College. According to Park, the panelists will "look back in time to the ways in which men and women have imagined what they saw as their own impending millennial moments...
Though the speakers and organizers of the event stressed the importance of opening a dialogue on all issues as the millennium approaches, they all said it is particularly vital to explore gender issues at this point in history...
...There has been so much conversation about the millennium and it seems an obvious introduction to be made of gender at the millennium," added Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of women's studies at Barnard College, who will address feminism in Islamic movements at the final panel. "Yet it is a reminder that we continue even at the millennium to bring gender as an after-thought into the discussion...
...millennium has traditionally been a time to reconsider what is happening socially," said Jakobsen, who will discuss gender and religion in the last panel. "[It] is a crucial time...