History Timeline: 1995-1996

• The beginning of Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies: Marwan Kazimi
• Program Director: Philip Khoury
  Program Coordinator: Michele 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