History Timeline: 1986-1987

• Women & Politics Annual Series
• 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"