History Timeline: 1998-1999

• Program Director: Margery Resnick
• "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