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History Timeline: 1998-1999
- Program Director: Margery Resnick
- "Gender Roles in Japan Today" Discussion: Clare Lee, Dr. Andrew Sparks, Dr. Sachiko Hirosue, MIT Student Kaoru Aou, and Writer Fatima Mernissi
- "Out in the Academy" Panel Discussion: Boston College Prof. Anne Fleche, York Univ. Prof. Joni Seager, and MIT Prof. Thomas DeFrantz
- "Women in Electoral Politics" Panel Discussion: Council of Women World Leader Founder Laura Liswood, Nancy Korman, and Massachusetts State Representative Liz Malia
- Science Fiction reading by Writer Lois McMasters Bujold and Writer Melissa Scott Readings by Poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Writer Esmeralda Santiago, Poet Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- Talks:
- "Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion" NYU Prof. Elizabeth Harman
- "Sex, Lies and Population Lullabies: Unethical Clinical Trials for Contraceptive Research" McGill Univ. Prof. Shree Mulay
- "Palestine: Women Between Patriarchy and New State Formation"
- "Blessed Be He Who Did Not Make Me a Woman" Multimedia Presentation
- "Exploring Gender and Leadership: Community Organizing Among South Asian Americans" UM Prof. Madhulika Khandelwal
- "Lifting Women's Voices: Participatory Research and the Case of the Roofless Women's Action" Writer Marie Kennedy
- "Multiculturalism vs. Feminism: Configuring Race, Gender and Violence in Law" American Univ. Prof. Leti Volpp
- "Lesbianism and the Indian Psyche" Dr. Manju Jaidka
- Film Screenings:
- "The Great Invisible: the Interesting Life of Isabelle Eberhardt"
- "Fire"
- Reports to the President 1998-1999
