Smith in the City: San Francisco March 23, 2013
Post date: Mar 15, 2013 2:43:36 AM
Register Now!
Registration is now open for this exciting half-day event that will bring the best of Smith College to San Francisco. Choose from a variety of sessions on timely topics taught by some of Smith’s most esteemed scholars. Subjects include perfection, education reform, and trash. Yes, trash—and what it says about us.
During lunch, President Carol T. Christ will reflect on her tenure and share the details of Women for the World, Smith’s ambitious new campaign that will re-imagine the liberal arts for the 21st century and guarantee that every student leaves Smith prepared to lead in the world.
Event details:
WHEN AND WHERE
Saturday, March 23, 2013
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m
501 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA
415-292-0100
YOUR FACULTY
Patricia Marten DiBartolo ’89
Professor and Chair, Psychology
Sam Intrator
Professor of Education and Child Study
Roger Kaufman
Professor of Economics
Elizabeth (Vicky) Spelman
Professor of Philosophy
Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities
SCHEDULE
8:30 a.m.
Registration and refreshments Paris Ballroom
8:50 a.m.
Welcome remarks Paris Ballroom
9–10:30 a.m.
SESSION I (choose one)
A. How Trying to Be Perfect Can Be No Good At All Athens Ballroom
Patricia Marten DiBartolo ’89, Professor of Psychology
In this session, Professor DiBartolo will examine research revealing the mental health implications for living a perfectionistic life and share strategies for channeling achievement strivings in a productive manner.
B. Who Can Afford College? Vienna Ballroom
Roger Kaufman, Professor of Economics
In this presentation, Professor Roger Kaufman will explore why higher education is such an expensive enterprise, tackling questions like, Who can afford to go to college? Who can afford not to go to college? And, Is there any relief in sight?
10:30–11 a.m.
Break Sydney Lounge
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m
SESSION II (choose one)
C. Combing Through the Trash and Getting to the Dirt Athens Ballroom
Elizabeth (Vicky) Spelman, Professor of Philosophy
Trying to obtain information about people by sifting through their trash is a sport engaged in not only by celebrity watchers but government agencies. Conflicts over garbage-divining have captured the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court, suggesting a level of anxiety and uncertainty about just what our garbage does or doesn’t tell about us, and whether it should be used to tell it.
D. Education for the 21st Century: New Skills, Pernicious Gaps,
and the Role of Reform Vienna Ballroom
Sam Intrator
Professor of Education and Child Study
This session will explore efforts to remake America’s educational system for the challenges of the 21st century. We will examine questions that include: What explains differentials in educational achievement across social, economic, racial, and national boundaries? How are schools, community organizations, and policy makers attempting to close these gaps and prepare children to thrive in the 21st century?
12:30–2 p.m.
Lunch and remarks Paris Ballroom
Carol T. Christ, President, Smith College
FEE
$20
$10 for alumnae in the classes of 2003 through 2012
REGISTRATION
QUESTIONS
For more information, please email smithevents@smith.edu.