Talks:
	"A Feminist Perspective on Income Taxation" Katerine Lahey "Women's Voices from Central America" Margaret Randall

Live Performance by Girls' Night Out
First publication of Women's Studies Around Boston
Women's Studies Research Room Opens

Diversity and Change: A Celebration of Women
Reading by May Sarton, Prof. Nikki Giovanni, and NCAAA Founder Elma Lewis

"Women's Studies in Technology and Science Education": Dr. Paul Gray, Dr. Shirley Malcom, and MIT Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller

Talks:

"Women in Development: A Critical Review of the Field" Prof. Asoka Bandarage "What's Happened to Women Scientists Since 1940?" Dr. Margaret Rossiter "Women Writing and Society" Novelist Margaret Atwood "Songs of Women's Experience" MIT Prof. Ruth Perry, Emory Prof. Amy Lang, and Berkeley Prof. Claire Kramsch "Feminism and the Role of Women in the Soviet Union, Journalist and Women" Activist Tatyana Mamonova "Prophesy Feminism and Witchcraft: Women Visionaries in Seventeenth Century England" Rutgers University Prof. Phyllis Mack

Women and Computer Conference and Panel Discussion

Film Screenings:
	"Not A Love Story" "Killing Us Softly" "Rosie the Riveter"

Women's Studies is approved as a Major at MIT
UROPs in Women's Studies became available
Program Coordinator: Cynthia Brown

"Literary Conversation" For Women Faculty, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry

Talks:
	"The Black Women: Revisions of a Distorted Image" Simmons Prof. Helen Boulware Moore "Women and Islam in Contemporary Middle East: Recent Perspectives" UC Prof. Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot

Women and Reproductive Technologies Conference: NYU Prof. Rayna Rapp, Institute on Women and Technology Director Gena Corea, Marcia Saxton, OBOS Director Judy Norsigian, Case Prof. Caroline Whitbeck

Publications:
	Bibliography on Gender and Science Bibliography on Reproductive Technologies Women and Math

Program Coordinator: Joni Seager

Readings by Writer Jamaica Kincaid, Emory Prof. Amy Lang, and Penn. State Prof. Robin Becker
"Women as Role Models, Finding Our Way Through the Labyrinth" Panel Discussion
"Literary Conversations" for Women Faculty, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry
MIT AAAS Retreat for Women Scientists
Women and the Urban Environment Seminar

Talks:
	"The Blooms of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Ironworking" MHC Prof. Eugenia Herbert "Women and Ecology" Dr. Vandana Shiva "History of American Feminism" MIT Visiting Prof. Jill Ker Conway

Asian Women in Two Worlds Program

Women and Technology in the Third World Film & Speaker Series with showing of "Nai" and "Women in Arms"

Readings by Writer Grace Paley, Social Activist Toni Cade Bambara

Child Sexual Abuse and the Media Forum

Gender and Planning Conference

"Literary Conversations" for Women Faculty, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry

Talks:

"Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy" NYU Prof. Muriel Dimen "Women and the Honduran Peasant Movement" Elvia Alvarado Galo "The Politics of Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry "Feminism, Reproductive Technologies and the Social Control of Women" Williams College Prof. Jana Sawicki "The Bogey of Western Feminism in the Third World" Univ. of Colombo Prof. Kumari Jayawardena "Gender and French Revolution" Writer Olwen Hufton "Effects of Equal Opportunity Legislation on Blacks and Women" UNM Prof. Barbara Bergman "Gender, Technology and Development" Watson Inst. of International Studies Prof. Kay Warren

Multiple Exposures Film Series
Contemporary Animation by Women Film
Film screenings: "Las Madres"

Pursuing a Career in Science and Technology Workshop Series

Registration Day Alternative Film Screening

Black Women Writers: Texts and Critics Series: Univ. of Virginia Prof. Deborah McDowell and Univ. of Wisconsin Prof. Nellie McKay

Women & Politics Annual Series: Margarita Michie, Dr. Anita Nesiah, Pres. of EDK Ethel Klein, UCSD Prof. Rebecca Klatch, Univ. of Chicago Prof. Cass Sunstein, and Harper's Editor Barbara Ehrenreich

Talks:

"Women Who Kill" Writer Nicole Ward Jouve "Latin American Women" speakers from Nicaragua and Costa Rica "Politics of Development and Its Impact on Cultural Work" Poet Honor Ford-Smith "Killing Patriarchy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Murder Mystery and Post- Feminism" Concordia Univ. Prof. Lillian Robinson "Women and Islamic Fundamentalism in the Arab World" Writer Fatima Mernissi "Feminism in the Third World" "Gender, Race, and Class in Contemporary Thought" "Race, Gender and Trade Unions in South Africa" Inst. for Research on Women Prof. Iris Berger "Women in India" Writer Renana Jhabvala

Black Women Writers Annual Speaker Series: Dr. Margaret Walker, Berkeley Prof. VeVe Clark, and Writer Clyde Taylor

Biomedical Technology Lecture

Poetry Readings by Poet Adrienne Rich and Poet Sharon Olds

Latina Grass-Roots Organizing Forum: Dr. Amanda Centeno and Dr. Montserrat Sagot

Film/Lecture Series:
	"Women Throughout Japanese History" "Lesbians" "Women in Music," Music Performer Barbara Englesberg Film Festival on Women in the Arab World

Talks:
	"Sexuality and Nationality in New Egyptian Cinema" Filmmaker Alia Arasoughly

Film Screenings:
	"The Color Purple"

Black Women Writers Annual Speaker Series: Writer Toni Morrison, Social Activist Toni Cade Bambara, and Writer Jewelle Gomez

Women & Politics Annual Series: Duke Prof. Claudia Koonz, Harvard Prof. Jane Mansbridge, Stanford Prof. Susan Okin, and Dr. Bina Agarwal

Engendering China: Women, Culture & the State Symposium
Technology & Culture Seminar, Dr. Elaine Bernard
The Cavani-All-Women String Quartets
Computer Equity Expert Project

Life and Works of Black Feminist Author Audre Lorde Conference

Talks:
	"AIDS Education in Managua" Lupita Malespin "The Education of a Writer" Novelist Ann Petry "New Scholarship on Asian Women" Speaker Series "Lunch Discussion on Chicana Poetry" NYU Prof. Mary Louis Pratt "The Power of the Written Word: Women and Literature" Cristina Peri Rossi

Readings:
	"A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1979-1990)," Univ. of Chicago Prof. Irena Klepfisz "Women in the War Zone: 20 Years of Resistance," Chrissie McAuley

Film Screening:
	"Children of Fire" "I Love You Rosa" "Wedding In Galilee" "Liberation and Alienation in Algerian Cinema" "The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua" "A Wife for My Son" "A Door to the Sky" "Hot Buns and Stale Roles" "Killing Us Softly"

Women & Politic Annual Series: NYU Prof. Linda Gordon, Northeastern Prof. Margaret Burnham, Rutgers Univ. Prof. Ann Lane, Univ. of Florida Prof. Luise White, Columbia Prof. Patricia Williams, and Harvard Prof. Gita Sen

Oral History in Action Seminar

Race, Gender and Ethnicity in US Politics Seminar Series

Engendering Environmental Thinking Symposium

Readings:
	"Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America," Lesbian Historian Lillian Faderman

Talks:

"Straight Out of Hollywood: Thelma and Louise, Spike and Annabelle" Writer Lillian S. Robinson "Deconstructing the Campaign Against Political Correctness" Inst. for Advanced Study Prof. Joan Wallach Scott "The 'Women Question' in Revolutionary Practice: The Russian & Chinese Communist Parties in the 1920s" Chris Gilmartin and MIT Prof. Elizabeth Wood "From the 'Women Question' to Women's Studies: Defining a New Discipline in China Today" Dalian Univ. Prof. Li Xiaojiang and Dr. Delia Davin "What is Feminism?" Panel Discussion: MIT Visiting Prof. Jill Ker Conway, Dr. Jacqui Alexander, and Yale Prof. Yukiko Hanawa "Women in Japanese Workforce" Writer Yasuko Muramatsu "Out for Laughs: A Wild Night of Women's Comedy" Karen Williams, Janice Perry, & Betsy Salkind "Sexing the Body: Female/Male Anatomy in Human Evolution" UC Berkeley Prof. Adrienne Zihlman

Film Screenings:
	"Black Women Filmmakers: Vision and Image" "The Bombing of Osage Avenue" by Social Activist Toni Cade Bambara "Third World Women Filmmakers" Film Festival "Liberation and Alienation in Algerian Cinema" film series "Films by Asian American Women Filmmakers" "Unveiling Eve: Women's History in the Middle East"

Women & Politics Annual Series: Prof. Micaela di Leonardo and Lynn Yeakel

Popular Cultures Conference: Columbia Prof. Jean Franco, UC Prof. Tricia Rose, McGill Univ. Prof. Sandra Buckley, Janice Radway, and Northwestern Prof. Lynn Spigel

"Feminist Methodology" Colloquium

"What is Feminism?" Panel Discussion: Activist Robyn Ochs, MIT Dean Ayida Mthembu, and American Univ. Prof. Sherifa Zuhur

Readings by Poet Joy Harjo and Poet Mitsuye Yamada

Talks:
	"The Way We Never Were: Why the Debate Over 'Family Values' Won't Go Away" Writer Stephanie Coontz "The Changing Worlds of Older Japanese Women" Anne Freed "Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis" York Univ. Dean Joni Seager Women's Lives in Science and Engineering Series

Film Screenings:
	"Heaven and Earth" "Street of Shame" "Black Lizard" Women, Film, & Video (New England Women's Studies Association 17th Annual Conference)

Workshop/Colloquia on Gender and Computer

Black Women in the Academy Conference: Dr. Johnetta Cole, Activist Angela Davis, Harvard Prof. Lani Guinier

  

Women & Politics Annual Series: Russian Academy of Science Director Natalia Rimashevskaya, Economic Researcher Bina Agarwal, NYC Prof. Frances Fox Piven, Dianne Du John, and Carmen Barroso

Women in Cyberspace Symposium: Novelist Pat Cadigan, Novelist Brenda Laurel, Georgia Tech Prof. Amy Bruckman, and MIT Prof. Sherry Turkle

Reading by Novelist Gish Jen

Talks:
	"If All We Knew About Women Was What We Read in Demography, What Would We Know?" Univ. of Pennsylvania Prof. Susan Cotts Watkins "Women's Life Cycle Status and Demographic Outcomes in South Asia" World Bank Social Scientist Monica Das Gupta

Program Coordinator: Barbara Schulman

Women & Politics Annual Series: Clark Prof. Cynthia Enloe and Harvard Prof. Lucie White

The New Women Warriors: A Festival of Cutting Edge Media by/about Asian & Asian American Women Series: Knowing Her Place, On Cannibalism, Sin City Diary, and Foreign Talk

Doing Gender on the Net Mini-Conference: Univ. of Texas Prof. Sandy Stone

Talks:
	"Militarized Sex Industry in Korea Talk" Ahn Il Soon and Kim Yon Ja "The Last Generation? A Meditation on the Turn of the Century" Poet Cherrie Moraga "If Men Wore Bras: Taking Feminine Technology Seriously" Univ. of Pennsylvania Prof. Judith McGaw Gender and Planning Series

Film Screenings:
	"Outlaw"

Reports to the President 1994-1995

Program Director: Philip Khoury
Program Coordinator: Mich&eactue;le Oshima

Women in Chemistry Conference

Women's Comedy Event

MIT Off-Line Poetry Slam

Virtue & Virtuality on Gender, Law & Cyberspace Conference

Readings:
	"The Serpent's Gift," MIT Prof. Helen Elaine Lee

Talks:

"Resetting the Margins: National Reading Tour" "Women, War and Literature in Contemporary Lebanon" Novelist Hanan al-Shaykh "Contemporary Women's Movement in India" Maitrayee Chaudhuri "Female Genital Mutilation: Status Report" Lawyer Seble Dawit "When American Soldiers Rape: Feminist Human Rights Implications of the Okinawa Case" Clark Prof. Cynthia Enloe "The Legal and Political Disenfranchisement of Female Asian Immigrant Workers" Sumi Shin "Women's Mysteries Evening Sessions" MIT Dean Ayida Mthembu

Film Screenings:
	"Great Girl" "History and Memory" "From Hollywood to Hanoi" "The Wedding Banquet" "Halving the Bones" "On Cannibalism" "Is There Anything Specific You Want to Tell Me About" "Pak Bueng on Fire" "Bui Doi: Life Like Dust" "Knowing Her Place"

Reports to the President 1995-1996

The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies:Lily Koo

IAP events: Reading from Sarah's Psalm

Discussion Group on Women in the Bible by Chaplain Constance Parvey

Program Director: Ruth Perry

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat - Conference on Gender & Computer Games

"Colored Girls with Pens: Writing by Women of Color" Series: Writer Thulani Davis, MIT Visiting Prof. Patricia Powell, Novelist Holly Uyemoto, Poet Carmen Abrego, Poet Nuar Alsadir, and Poet Sharan Strange

"Generations of Feminism" Panel Discussion: MIT Visiting Prof. Jill Ker Conway, Columnist Katha Pollitt, Writer Linda C. Powell, Pam Prasarttongosoth, Alan Shihadeh, Lamelle Rawlins

The Women's Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series:
	MIT Prof. Aixa Cintron Brenda Cotto-Escalera Jet Bussemaker Manjari Mehta Harvard Prof. Maureen Scully Filmmaker Amy Segal MIT Prof. Emma Teng

Women at MIT Exhibit

MIT Second Annual Off-Line Poetry Slam

The Changing Role of Women in Japan Film Series:
	"Ripples of Change: Japanese Women's Search for Self, Eat the Kimono, and the Good Wife of Tokyo" "Dream Girls" "Shinjuku Boys" "When Women Unite: The Story of an Uprising"

Readings:
	"Fifth Book of Peace," Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston "Among the White Moon Faces," UC Prof. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Science Fiction, Writer Ellen Kushner "Bamboo Ridge Collective," Writer Nora Keller, Writer Juliet Kono, Poet Cathy Song, and Poet Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Talks:

"Noble Science and Nobel Lust: Disclosing Tribal Secrets Presentation" Prof. Carl Djerassi "The Changing Role of Women in Japan" and "Violence Against Women" Prof. Takako Aikawa "US Militarized Prostitution in Korea" Wellesley Prof. Kathy Moon "Survivors of War, and Survivors of Domestic Violence: Both Were Prisoners" Loung Un "Gender, Welfare and Poverty" Series: MIT Prof. Aixa Cintron, UM Prof. Sandra Danziger

Film Screenings:
	"Calling the Ghosts" "Bastard Out of Carolina"

Reports to the President 1996-1997

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 Jernelšv

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

"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

15th Anniversary: Dar Williams Concert

"Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" Panel Discussion: Stanford Prof. Susan Okin, Univ. of Chicago Prof. Martha Nussbaum, Emory Law Prof. Abdullahi An-Nai'im, Writer Homi Bhabha, and Harvard Prof. Leila Ahmed

Media, Madness, and Morals Discussion: Journalist Jennifer Gonnerman and Tanya Selvaratnum

Women in Athletics Panel Discussion: Dr. Sheila Widnall, Dr. Cady Coleman

Eastern Europe: Memoirs, Memory, History Panel Discussion: Marianne Hirsh, Writer Eva Hoffman, Susan Suleiman

"Asian American Queer Women's Sexuality" Panel Discussion: Dr. Selena Wahng, Writer Cecilia Tan, Filmmaker Sonali Gulati

Women SciFi Author Series: Writer Connie Willis and Writer Nalo Hopkinson

Concerts sponsored: Women's Collective Concert

Readings by MIT Prof. Helen Elaine Lee and Writer Susie Bright

Talks:

"Feminism without Women? Against the Effacement of Sexual Difference" Writer Sylviane Agacinski "Making African Documentaries: Challenges for Women Directors" Filmmaker Anne-Laure Folly "Picture of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood Colloquia" Wellesley Prof. Anne Higgonet "Barbie, Youth Violence, Queer Sex, and Censorship: Mixing It Up Colloquia" Bates College Prof. Erica Rand "Obscure Desires? Reflections on the Practice of an African Women Filmmaker" Writer Tsitsi Dangarembga "Love in a Post Claustrophobic Era: Reflections on 'Salad of the Bad Cafe' " Peggy Shaw, Artist Lois Weaver, and Performance Artist Stacy Makishi

Film Screenings:
	"Daughter of the Dust" "A League of Their Own," "Silence of the Palace" "Raise the Read Lantern" "A Hero for Daisy" "Clockwatchers" "Diary for My Love" "Everyone's Child"

Reports to the President 1999-2000

Geneviéve McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World with Turkish Writer Feride Cicekoglu

Women and Hair Student Panel

MIT Comparative Media Studies Colloquium

Intercollegiate Poetry Slam-Off

Concerts sponsored: Hip Hop Fest 2000 and Latino Music

Race in Digital Space Conference

"Making the Workplace Family-Friendly: Who is Responsible" Panel Discussion: Kathy Cassavant, Kathy Hazzard, Lois Schavel

Reclaiming Our Lives, Our Voices: Women's Experiences of Poverty, Welfare, and New Beginnings Panel Discussion

"Black Performance Theory: Performativity and Narratives of Race" Conference: MIT Prof. Thomas DeFrantz, Northwestern Prof. Anna Scott, Williams College Prof. Annemarie Bean, Playwright Carl Hancock Rux, Northwestern Prof. Jennifer DeVere Brody, Choreographer Christalyn E. Wright, Dr. Richard Greene III, Dancer Anita Gonzales, Dr. Monique Guillory, Jason King, Duke Prof. John Jackson Jr., Performer Pamela Means, Writer Marya McQuirter, and Poet Amatul Hannan

Talks:

"Queer Diasporas, Psychic Diasporas: Space and the World of Wong Kar Wai" Dr. David Eng "Ethnography of Pornography: The Male Gaze" Mike Putnam "The Right's Attack on Affirmative Action" Dr. Jean Hardisty and Director of Political Research Nikhil Aziz "Intellectual Property and the Internet" York Univ. Prof. Rosemary Coombe "Anime Identities: Japanese Anime and the American Audience" Univ. of Texas Prof. Susan Napier "Female Entrepreneurs and Cyberspace" Dr. Marney Morris and FWE CEO Denise Brosseau "Women, Human Rights and Globalization" Australian Univ. Prof. Hilary Charlesworth "Women Refugees Applying for Asylum: Successes and Emerging Challenges" Harvard Prof. Deborah Anker

Film Screenings:
	"Gendernauts" "Journey of Hope"

Reports to the President 2000-2001

IAP event: Electrical Work- Home Repair for Women

Geneviéve McMillan-Reba Stewart Lectures on Women in the Developing World: Writer Leila Sebbar, Writer Malika Oufkir, and Writer Ken Bugul

Program Director: Diana Henderson (Fall 2001) Elizabeth A. Wood (Spring 2002)

Eastern Division Society for Women in Philosophy Spring Conference

"Autonomy and Freedom from Fear," Dartmouth Prof. Susan Brison

Native American Women Filmmakers Panel: Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, Producer Arlene Bowman

"Third Wave Feminism & Popular Culture: Transforming Activism through Media Production" Panel: Activist Suheir Hammad, Photographer Tammy Rae Carland, Writer Mimi Nguyen

"Dilemmas of Gender, Work and Family in the 21st Century" Panel Discussion: Harvard Prof. Jody Heymann and Theda Skocpol

"Caribbean Women Artists: Expressing/Resisting Globalization" Discussion Panel: Poet Maril�ne Phipps, Duke Prof. Faith Smith, MIT Visiting Prof. Patricia Powell, Writer Nelly Rosario

Reading "Song of the Water Saints," Nelly Rosario

Talks:
	"What Is Marriage For?" Journalist EJ Graff "The Politics of Welfare Reform" Anne Paulson and Activist Diane Dujon "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium" "French Family Policy: Challenging U.S. Models of Work and Family" Dr. Jeanne Fagnani

Film Screenings:
	Native American Women Filmmakers Video Festival (12 Screenings) Australian Filmmaker by Karen Hughes Film colloquia "Mickey Mouse Monopoly" with filmmakers Chyeng Sun, Karen Hughes, Alanis Obomsawin

Reports to the President 2001-2002

The Geneviéve McMillan-Reba Stewart Lectures on Women in the Developing World: Writer Gisele Pineau

Program Director: Sally Haslanger (Fall 02) Elizabeth A. Wood (Spring 03)

Program Coordinator: Emily Meghan Morrow Howe

The Politics and Technology of Motherhood Series: Dr. Cynthia Cohen, Dr. Rosalind Barnett, MIT Prof. Lotte Bailyn, Political Scientist Mona Harrington, Vassar Prof. Mary Lyndon Shanley, Dr. Cynthia Cohen, and Harvard Prof. Andrea Gurmankin

Panel Discussions with Musicians: Folk Singer Alix Dobkin, Singer June Millington, Bitch and Animal Music Band, and Actress Sharon Washington and screening of the film "Radical Harmonies"

Women's Studies Faculty Retreat

Dancing India, Univ. of Minnesota Prof. Ananya Chatterjea

Readings:
	"Down the Dirt Road", Poet Talia Kingsburg

Talks:
	African American Living History Performance Museum, Actress Vinie Burrows MIT Artist in Residence Concert by Peggy Seeger

"Transgendered People Representing Themselves" Panel Discussion: Dr. Nape WasteWin, Stephen Whittle, and Filmmaker Christopher Lee

"School Girls and Superheroes: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Japanese Animation" Discussion: BU Prof. Sarah Frederick, Director of Shoujoai Conferences Erica Friedman, Brandeis Univ. Prof. Kerey Luis

Talks:

"Classicism through Ventriloquisms: The Contested History of Odissi" Univ. of Minnesota Prof. Ananya Chatterjea "Korean Comfort Women" Dr. Kim Hwa-sun Halmoni and Dr. Ok Cha Soh "Through Women's Eyes: An Alternative American History" Univ. of Iowa Prof. Linda Kerber "Beyond Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of the South Asian Diasporic Cinema" Univ. of Minnesota Prof. Jigna Desai "Cinema and Global Violence" and "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer" Discussion, Filmmaker Aparna Sen "Rose McClendon: Black on the Great White Way" Actress Vinie Burrows "Politicizing the History of Asian-American Aesthetic in American Modern Dance" Univ. of Illinois Prof. Yutian Wong

Film Screenings:
	"Magic Realism and African American Gothic Melodrama," "Eve's Bayou" "Caveman's Valentine"

Reports to the President 2002-2003

Women in Science Lecture Series: MIT Prof. Nancy Hopkins, Univ. of Michigan Prof. Abby Stewart

Why Feminism Needs Biology: a Biology and Feminism Symposium: Brown Prof. Anne Fausto-Sterling and Univ. of Alabama Prof. Elizabeth Wilson

Women's Studies Intellectual Forum:
	"The Ethics of Gender and Family Planning in Contemporary Greece," Dr. Heather Paxson "The coffeehouse: Architecture and Sociability in the Mediterranean City," MIT Prof. Heghnar Watenpaugh

Talks:

"Opposition to Affirmative Action: Contemporary Responses" Director of Political Research Nikhil Aziz, Dr. Martha Davis, and Attorney Nadine Cohen "Naked in the Promised Land" Writer Lilian Faderman "From the Margin or from the Center: French Caribbean Women Writing between Memory and Hope" Poet Marie-Celie Agnant "Spanish and English: Two Sides of a Looking Glass" Writer Rosario Ferre "That Takes Ovaries: A Student Spoken-Word Event" "Family Matters: Afro-Protestant Representations of Antebellum African American Families and Marriage" Frances Foster "Ever Since Orientalism: Rethinking Postcolonial Histories of Modern Science in India" MIT Prof. Abha Sur "Women, Men and Militarization: Feminist Perspectives at Home and Abroad" Clark Prof. Cynthia Enloe "Diversity Across Science and Engineering Disciplines" Dr. Donna Nelson "Filmmaking on the Margins: Vulnerable Women and Girls in South Africa" Writer Julie Frederikse "Building Suburbia" MHC Prof. Dolores Hayden

Chicks Make Flicks Film Series:
	"Getting to Fenway" "El Tiante: A Red Sox Story" "My Father, The Genius" "Next Stop Wonderland" "Tupperware"

Reports to the President 2003- 2004

20th Anniversary Celebration (Tech Talk: Women's Studies prepares for celebration)
	High Tea and Afternoon Panel Discussion: "Taking Women's Studies into the Real World" "Challenges for Women's Studies: Power, Politics, and Gender" Symposium: Hamilton College Prof. Chandra Mohanty, Political Essayist Barbara Ehrenreich, and Columbia Prof. Patricia Williams Evening Gala Celebration with Grace Paley & other Women's Studies Members

The Geneviéve McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World Dr. Nacira GuŽnif-Souilamas

"Jones Discusses Artist's Rebellious Work," Sarah H. Wright

MIT Brown Bag Lunch Discussion Series

"Gender and Transition in Post-War Yugoslavia," Dubravka Ugresic

Women's Studies Intellectual Forum:
	"Life Without," MIT Prof. Helen E. Lee "Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge," Dr. Rae Langton "The Painter, the Critic, her Pictures, his Words," Dr. Caroline Jones "Conflict Between Multiculturalism and Feminism," Political Scientist Sarah Sang

Talks:

"Black Folks Guide to Black Folks" Artist Hanifah Walidah "Democracy, Expertise, and Trustworthiness: Neglected Connections between Institutional Practices and Scientific Validity" Minnesota Prof. Naomi Scheman "Queer Theory and the Philosophical 'We' " Minnesota Prof. Naomi Scheman "Queer Forgetting" USC Prof. Judith Halberstam "The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender" Syracuse Univ. Prof. Linda Alcoff "Everyday Feminism: A New Theory of Social Movements" Harvard Prof. Jane Mansbridge

Film Screenings: "My Mother Likes Women"

Chicks Make Flicks Film Series:
	"Girl at Risk" "Playing House" "Pledge of Allegiance Blues" "Shelter"