History Timeline: 2006-2007

• The Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Lectures on Women in the Developing World
• "Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious," Bina Agarwal, professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University
• "Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Violence against Women and Traveling Rights in India, China, and the USA," Sally Merry, professor of women's studies at Wellesley College
• Women in Science, Technology, and Engineering
• "Women, Work, and Life," a discussion with MIT faculty members who are balancing careers with life, hosted by lecturer Sur
• "Bringing Women into the Science and Engineering Curriculum: Working Across the Faculty and the Student Body," Mary Wyer, professor of women's studies at North Carolina State University
• MIT-specific faculty development
• "Female Terrorists: What Difference Does Gender Make?" Marilyn Friedman, professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis (workshop on gender and politics hosted by Professor Song)
• Global women's issues
• International Women's Day, a celebration and poetry reading by MIT faculty, staff, and students from around the world Assorted lectures in women's and gender studies as related to political science, African American studies, media studies, literature, environmental studies, philosophy, sociology, art, and history
• Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture, a public film screening and student-centered discussion on race, gender, and identity
• WAM!2007 Women, Action, and the Media, an annual conference where progressive journalists, authors, activists, and students meet, share skills, and strategize to increase women's influence in the media; cosponsored by the Center for New Words, Cambridge
• Program in Women's and Gender Studies
• Queer Theory! An Academic Travesty, a musical satire written and directed by Professor DeFrantz
• Chicks Make Flicks, film screenings and discussions with directors, including the popular event featuring short films by local filmmaker Carmen Oquendo Villar; cosponsored by Women in Film and Video New England and Comparative Media Studies
• "The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement," Winifred Breines, professor of sociology at Northeastern University