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Monday, November 12 - Open Session
Satow Room, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Introductions and Opening Remarks
Stephanie Pfirman pdf
Diana Rhoten

9:15 Empirical Methods of Studying Interdisciplinarity

  • Veronica Boix-Mansilla pdf
  • Elizabeth Corley pdf
  • Erin Leahey pdf
  • Alan Porter pdf
  • Wendy Newstetter pdf

    Moderator: Stephanie Pfirman

10:45 Break

11:00 Theoretical Lens on Women and Minorities in Science

  • Mary Frank Fox pdf
  • Laurel Smith-Doerr pdf
  • Gerhard Sonnert pdf
  • Gerald Holton

    Moderator: Diana Rhoten

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Putting the Two Together – Conceptual Frameworks for Analyzing Women, Minorities, and Interdisciplinary Science

  • Bianca Bernstein pdf
  • Robert Ibarra pdf
  • Juan Lucena pdf
  • Jen Schneider pdf
  • Julie Thompson Klein pdf

    Moderator: Diana Rhoten

3:30 Break

3:45 Putting the Two Together – Institutional Implications and Actions for Interdisciplinary

Science: How Might They Differ for Women and Minorities

  • Gail Dubrow
  • Donna Nelson
  • Wanda Ward pdf

    Moderator: Stephanie Pfirman

5:00 Review of the day

5:45 Dinner at Barnard College (Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd fl, Barnard Hall)

7:00 Dinner end

7:30 Keynote by Howard Gardner: "Interdisciplinarity: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown"
James Room, Barnard College

 

Tuesday, November 13 – By Invitation
Satow Room, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Goals of Breakout Sessions

9: 30 Breakout Session I: Is There a Research and Policy Agenda Here?

  • Virginia Valian
  • Susan Levine
  • Sharon Traweek

10:30 Break

11: 00 Report Back

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Breakout Session II: Where Do We Go From Here and How Do We Get There?

  • Susan Elrod
  • Wendy Newstetter
  • Maria Rivera Maulucci
  • Elke Weber

2:00 Report Back

3:00 Conclusions and Next Steps