History Timeline: 2005-2006

The Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World

"Has Anyone Ever Seen a Photograph of Rape?" Ariella Azoulay, academic director of the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and professor of visual culture and critical theory and Bar-Ilan University.
>"Palestinian Women Artists Gannit Ankori," associate professor of art history at Hebrew University and visiting associate professor and research associate at the Women's Studies in Religion Center at Harvard Divinity School.

Assorted lectures in women's studies as related to political science, African American studies, media studies, literature, environmental studies, philosophy, sociology, art, and history

"Womanist-Feminist Social Movements, Power...and Much More," Christina Brinkley, professor of Africana and African-American Women's Studies at Simmons College
WAM!2006 - Women and the Media: Making Noise, Making Change, annual conference where progressive journalists, authors, activists, and students meet, share skills, and strategize to increase women's influence in the media; keynote speakers were Farai Chideya, Maria Hinojosa, Caryl River (cosponsored by the Center for New Words, Cambridge)
"The Gender of Citizenship: Bodies, Subjects, and Publics in Weimar Germany," Kathleen Canning, professor of history, University of Michigan (cosponsored by the History faculty and the Sahin Lecture Series)
"Women and Water," Marcia Brewster, task manager, Interagency Gender and Water Task Force, Sustainable Development Division, United Nations (cosponsored by the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT)
"International Take Back Your Time Day," Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College
"His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Household Accounting in 18th- century England," Amanda Vickery, reader in modern British women's history, Royal Holloway, University of London
"The Downright Sexy Adventures of Drew Durango," a staged reading featuring Broadway and cabaret star Darius De Haas produced by associate professor Thomas DeFrantz and the MIT Dance Theater Ensemble

Women in Science, Technology, and Engineering

"Rocking the World: Women in Science," a production by Thomas DeFrantz and the MIT Dance Theater Ensemble

MIT-Specific faculty development

"Affirmative Action at MIT," a discussion lunch for WS faculty
"MLK Scholars in Women's Studies," a discussion lunch for WS faculty
WS faculty lunch conversation with feminist historian and scholar of African American studies Leslie Harris

MIT student-centered events

"Young Women, Feminism, and the Future: 'Can I Be a Feminist and...Shave, Date Men, Eat Meat, Be Girly?'" Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, leading third-wave feminists; coauthors of Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (2005) and Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000); and cofounders of Soapbox Inc., a speakers' bureau representing outspoken experts with a progressive take on current events and culture
Open House for MIT Students Interested in Women's Studies
"Spoken Word," an MIT student writing event (cosponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies)

Chicks Make Flicks (film screenings and discussions with directors, cosponsored by Women in Film and Video/New England along with Comparative Media Studies)

The Pursuit of Pleasure, Maryanne Galvin
Echoes of Bats and Men and other selected shorts, Jo Dery
Stay Until Tomorrow, Laura Colella
Nothing Like Dreaming, Nora Jacobson
Hineini: "Coming Out" in a Jewish High School, Irena Fayngold
West 47th Street, June Peoples and Bill Lichtenstein
Anonymously Yours, Gayle Ferraro
The Devil's Music, Maria Agui Carter

Global women's issues (2005-2006 emphasis on South Asian women's studies)

A Celebration and Reflection of the 58th Anniversary of South Asia's Independence from Colonialism - Bheeter Bahe Muktidhara/The Stream Within, a documentary about women in the Indian freedom struggle, followed by a panel discussion, "New Challenges for Women's Movements in South Asia," moderated by visiting scholar Manjrekar
UnLimited Girls, a film exploring feminism in contemporary urban India (cosponsored by the South Asia Forum at MIT, the Program in Women's Studies, and the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia)
International Women's Day, a celebration and poetry reading by MIT faculty, staff, and students (cohosted with the MIT Alumni Association)
"Feminism, Community, and Caste in India," a lecture by Nivedita Menon, associate professor of political science, University of Delhi, India, and fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University (2005-2006)
"Writing about Women & Human Rights in Contemporary Pakistan," Beena Sarwar, artist, journalist, and filmmaker from Karachi, Pakistan, who is active in the country's women's rights, human rights, and peace movements
"Politics of Sexuality in Contemporary India," Meena Gopal, faculty member in the Research Centre for Women's Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai; yoti Puri, associate professor of sociology, Simmons College, Boston; and Parmesh Shahani ('05, Comparative Media Studies)
"Militarization, Fundamentalism, and Violence against Women in Bangladesh," Elora Chowdhury, assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston