History Timeline: 2007-2008

• Chicks Make Flicks (film screenings and discussions with directors, cosponsored by Women in Film and Video/New England along with Comparative Media Studies)
• Truth and Transformations with Caren block and Paula Dowd
• Transgressions, I love you & Dance by Design with Valerie Weiss
• Strange Faculty with Marty Johnson
• Shadow of House with Allie Humenuk
• 3 Americaswith Christina Kotz Cornejo
• A night of Animated shortsYvonne Anderson and Amy Kravitz
• The Samantha Smith Projectwith Irene Lustig
• The Party on the DownlowAbigail Child
• Today the Hawk takes One Chick with Jane Gillooly
• Assorted lectures in women's studies as related to political science, African American studies, media studies, literature, environmental studies, philosophy, sociology, art, and history
• The Science of Race, Sex, and Gender screening with Abha Sur and Tommy DeFrantz
• Staceyann Chin: Lecture-discussion with Prof. Defrantz' Hip Hop Studies Class, Public Performance, Master Class for student writers, and Dinner
• Public screening of Byron Hurt's "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes"
• Public screening of Byron Hurt's "I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America"
• Graduate Students who happen to be Feminists gathering (grad*feminists)
• Public Lecture: "Beyond beats and rhymes: a hip hop head weighs in on manhood in hop hop culture." Byron Hurt
• Latinas: Viviendo sin Limites (Latinas: Living without limits) A tertulia/discussion with Ana Castillo, Melissa Blanco-Borelli, and Juana Racheco, with a Community Dinner hosted by Margarita Ribas Groeger.
• Talking Across Race: Indian & African American Collaborations - WGS Faculty Intellectual Forum
• Public Program: "Lecture-Demo by Nappy Grooves," the Oakland-based black drag king troupe, part of an Office of the Arts Residency
• Talking Across Race: Indian & African American Collaborations - WGS Faculty Intellectual Forum
• Public Program: "Lecture-Demo by Nappy Grooves," the Oakland-based black drag king troupe, part of an Office of the Arts Residency
• MIT Writers Series: Ana Castillo - Public reading and Reception
• McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: "From Public Squares to Check-Points: Women of the Occupation In Israel/Palestine." with Anat Biletzki
• "Feminist faculty talk feminist pedagogy" with Rebecca Faery
• Strong Modern Women: Feminist Values in Life, Relationship, & Careers - WGS Faculty Intellectual Forum
• Student led REG DAY event: Asian-American Youth on Nationality, family, and gender issues
• "Seen and Unseen: Reading the Black Dancing Body" with Brenda Dixon Gottschild
• "African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era"
• "The Stories Pictures Tell: Dance Footprints in Selected Works of Aaron Douglas"
• "Tongue, Smell, Color" Performance Lecture and Reception
• "Researching Performance: The (Black) Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture"
• "The Uses and Misuses of Religion: Lessons from 20 years of Anti-Communal Activism" with Shabnam Hashmi
• "Men Speak Out" book reading - with Don N.S. Unger, Haji Shearer, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Rob Okun
• WAM! 2008 3 day conference with the Center for New Words
• "Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas and Husband-Hunting Harems" and dinner Jennifer Pozner
• "Gender, Globalization, and Development in China and India" with Uma Chakravarty & Lin Chun
• "Mulata Madness," Melissa Blanco-Borelli
• "Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing" Louise Dunlap
• "Sexual Assault Awareness Week" WGS sponsored the closing lunch "What you can do to help."
• "Women in Conflict Situations in Northeast India" & "Challenges to the Indian Nation State in the Northeast" with Tilottama Misra and Udayon Misra