"Building Women’s Knowledge Institutions: A Conversation in Honor of Mariam Chamberlain"
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 2014-10-29

This intergenerational conversation highlights experiences of those who have created institutions that generate and share knowledge about women to catalyze social change. Participants include Florence Howe, founder of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York; Debra Schultz, former Assistant Director of the National Council for Research on Women and the Soros Foundation’s International Women’s Program; and Gwendolyn Beetham, gender studies scholar-activist who has taught at the London School of Economics, Rutgers University, and Brooklyn College and edits "The Academic Feminist" for Feministing.com. The event honors Mariam Chamberlain (1918–2013), founding president of the National Council for Research on Women.

This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on October 12, 2014. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/