History Timeline: 1997-1998

• The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies: Rita Leung
• 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 Jernelõv
• 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