History Timeline: 1990-1991

• MIT Women's Studies hosts 15th Anniversary Poetry Reading and Party for Transition House
• Program Director: Sue Carey
  Program Coordinator: Sandy Martin and Graciela Perez-Trevisan
• Black 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"