History Timeline: 1997-1998

The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies: Rita Leung
IAP activities: "Women and Medicine" Seminar
"Comparative Perspectives on Women and Engineering: Sweden and USA" Graduate Roundtable
The Bustani Middle East Seminar: Novelist Assia Djebar
Mirror Images: Women Represent Themselves Symposium
The Race and Cyberspace Symposium
MIT Graduate Student Women's Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series:
- Dr. Maggie Orth
- Dr. Miriam Murase
- Univ. of Alabama Prof. Jennifer McKitrick
- Bates College Prof. Rebecca Herzig
- Garyfallia Katsavounidou
Gender & Technoscience Faculty Roundtable: Harvard Prof. Evelynn Hammonds, BIT Prof. Lena Trojer, Olin College Prof. Lynn Stein, Lulea Univ. Prof. Ingegerd Palmer, MIT Prof. Sherry Turkle, and Arne Jernelõv
Women and Monotheism Series: Writer Susan Shapiro, BU Prof. Paula Fredriksen, and Wafaa' Salman
Faiths and Feminisms Panel Discussion: BU Prof. Paula Fredriksen and Wafaa' Salman
Science Fiction Reading Series: Writer Octavia Butler, Writer Samuel Delany, Writer Nancy Kress, Writer Michael A. Burstein, and Novelist Pat Cadigan
Talks:
- "Nikita and Point of No Return: the Remaking of French Femininity" Filmmaker Ginette Vincendeau
- "Invisible Men and Unsuspecting Women: The Politics of AIDS in Black Communities"Univ. of Chicago Prof. Cathy Cohen
- "The Problem with Nature/Nurture" Brown Prof. Anne Fausto-Sterling
- "Feminist Activism in the US Millitary and the Catholic Church" Cornell Univ. Prof. Mary Katzenstein
- "Algerian Women's Prison Poetry" MIT Prof. Susan Slyomovics
- "How New Was New Wave Cinema? Romantic Male Heroes and Their Muses" SLU Prof. Genevieve Sellier
- "Coordinating Academic and Biological Clocks: Parenting and Tenure" Haverford College Prof. Anne E. Preston, Dr. Shirley Malcom, and Dr. Virginia Valian
Film Screenings:
- "Dream Worlds"
- "Small Happiness"
- "The Handmaid's Tale"
- "N!ai: Story of a !Kung Woman"
- "Bhaji on the Beach,"
- "The Color Purple"
- "Once Were Warriors"
- "A Midwife's Tale"
- "The Official Story"
- "The Global Assembly Line"
- "Watermelon Woman"
- "The Women of Mount Chenoua: Filming the Unfilmable"
Reports to the President 1997-1998