Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
Jhumpa Lahiri will read from her Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies.
Date: Thursday November 2, 2000
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 10-250
Date: February 23-25, 2001
Katha Pollitt
New Words will be selling her books and there will be a signing after the talk.
Date: Tuesday February 27, 2000
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 6-120
Gerry Bloustein, Australian feminist ethnographer/videomaker.
Date: Thursday March 1, 2000
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 2-105
World premiere of a new chamber music theater work for singing actress and chamber music trio (The Core Ensemble).
The piece is based on the lives of three legendary Latin American Women: renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni, and Salvodroan peasant-activist Rufina Amaya. Cosponsored with the Office of the Arts and Music and Theater Arts. Free and open to the public.Date: Wednesday March 7, 2000
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Killian Hall
A talk by Fatna Elbouih, Moroccan human rights activist and former political prisoner.
The McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World.
Date: Friday March 13, 2000
Time: 3:30pm
Location: E51-095
Date: March 13-15, 2000
Lecture by Eric Fassin, Professeur Agrege
Ecole Normale Superieure, Departement de Sciences Sociales
Lecture sponsored by the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section at MIT and the MIT France Program.
Date: Monday April 9, 2000
Time: 7:00pm
Location: E38-714
Bilingual Cabaret for Majors and Minors and Concentrators in Foreign Languages & Literatures.
Date: Friday May 4, 2000
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Killian Hall
