Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American

anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, reflects on the recent literature being

produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their

contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the

work of Latin American and Caribbean women, she includes an account of her

own return to Cuba and her complicated search for home. This Rennert Forum on Women lecture

took place on April 10, 2008 at Barnard College.

American Historian Estelle Freedman '69 looks back on the tumultuous year of 1968, when she was a student at Barnard, from the perspective of subsequent events and historical interpretations. Freedman, now a professor of History at Stanford University and author of several influential books on feminism and on sexuality, explores the life-changing process of questioning authority. This lecture took place on March 26, 2008 at Barnard College.

Lani Guinier delivered the keynote address at the 33rd annual Scholar and Feminist Conference. The conference, titled "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation," took place on March 1, 2008 at Barnard College.

Liz Krueger, Christine Marie Sierra, Sally Kohn, Signe Wilkinson and Nancy Abudu discuss how we can succeed in making wider political participation a reality in the United States, and how gender, race, and class impact the realities of who votes and whose votes are counted. This panel discussion, moderated by Lori Minnite, took place at the 33rd annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation," on March 1, 2008 at Barnard College.

Renowned feminist scholar and activist Josephine Ho joins best-selling author and anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein in a conversation that brings to light a new vision of global justice and the work being done at the intersections where sexuality and economics meet. This event took place on November 29, 2007 at Barnard College.