History Timeline: 2000-2001

• The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender's Studies: Vis Taraz and Sondra Miles
• Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World with Turkish Writer Feride Cicekoglu
• Women and Hair Student Panel
• MIT Comparative Media Studies Colloquium
• Intercollegiate Poetry Slam-Off
• Concerts sponsored: Hip Hop Fest 2000 and Latino Music
• Race in Digital Space Conference
• "Making the Workplace Family-Friendly: Who is Responsible" Panel Discussion: Kathy Cassavant, Kathy Hazzard, Lois Schavel
• Reclaiming Our Lives, Our Voices: Women's Experiences of Poverty, Welfare, and New Beginnings Panel Discussion
• "Black Performance Theory: Performativity and Narratives of Race" Conference: MIT Prof. Thomas DeFrantz, Northwestern Prof. Anna Scott, Williams College Prof. Annemarie Bean, Playwright Carl Hancock Rux, Northwestern Prof. Jennifer DeVere Brody, Choreographer Christalyn E. Wright, Dr. Richard Greene III, Dancer Anita Gonzales, Dr. Monique Guillory, Jason King, Duke Prof. John Jackson Jr., Performer Pamela Means, Writer Marya McQuirter, and Poet Amatul Hannan
• Talks:
  • "Queer Diasporas, Psychic Diasporas: Space and the World of Wong Kar Wai" Dr. David Eng
  • "Ethnography of Pornography: The Male Gaze" Mike Putnam
  • "The Right's Attack on Affirmative Action" Dr. Jean Hardisty and Director of Political Research Nikhil Aziz
  • "Intellectual Property and the Internet" York Univ. Prof. Rosemary Coombe
  • "Anime Identities: Japanese Anime and the American Audience" Univ. of Texas Prof. Susan Napier
  • "Female Entrepreneurs and Cyberspace" Dr. Marney Morris and FWE CEO Denise Brosseau
  • "Women, Human Rights and Globalization" Australian Univ. Prof. Hilary Charlesworth
  • "Women Refugees Applying for Asylum: Successes and Emerging Challenges" Harvard Prof. Deborah Anker
• Film Screenings:
  • "Gendernauts"
  • "Journey of Hope"
• Reports to the President 2000-2001