History Timeline: 1996-1997

• Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Chair in the Study of Women in the Developing World is established
• The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies: Lily Koo
• IAP events: Reading from Sarah's Psalm
• Discussion Group on Women in the Bible by Chaplain Constance Parvey
• Program Director: Ruth Perry
• From Barbie to Mortal Kombat - Conference on Gender & Computer Games
• "Colored Girls with Pens: Writing by Women of Color" Series: Writer Thulani Davis, MIT Visiting Prof. Patricia Powell, Novelist Holly Uyemoto, Poet Carmen Abrego, Poet Nuar Alsadir, and Poet Sharan Strange
• "Generations of Feminism" Panel Discussion: MIT Visiting Prof. Jill Ker Conway, Columnist Katha Pollitt, Writer Linda C. Powell, Pam Prasarttongosoth, Alan Shihadeh, Lamelle Rawlins
• The Women's Studies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series:
  • MIT Prof. Aixa Cintron
  • Brenda Cotto-Escalera
  • Jet Bussemaker
  • Manjari Mehta
  • Harvard Prof. Maureen Scully
  • Filmmaker Amy Segal
  • MIT Prof. Emma Teng
• Women at MIT Exhibit
• MIT Second Annual Off-Line Poetry Slam
• The Changing Role of Women in Japan Film Series:
  • "Ripples of Change: Japanese Women's Search for Self, Eat the Kimono, and the Good Wife of Tokyo"
  • "Dream Girls"
  • "Shinjuku Boys"
  • "When Women Unite: The Story of an Uprising"
• Readings:
  • "Fifth Book of Peace," Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston
  • "Among the White Moon Faces," UC Prof. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Science Fiction, Writer Ellen Kushner
  • "Bamboo Ridge Collective," Writer Nora Keller, Writer Juliet Kono, Poet Cathy Song, and Poet Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Talks:
  • "Noble Science and Nobel Lust: Disclosing Tribal Secrets Presentation" Prof. Carl Djerassi
  • "The Changing Role of Women in Japan" and "Violence Against Women" Prof. Takako Aikawa
  • "US Militarized Prostitution in Korea" Wellesley Prof. Kathy Moon
  • "Survivors of War, and Survivors of Domestic Violence: Both Were Prisoners" Loung Un
  • "Gender, Welfare and Poverty" Series: MIT Prof. Aixa Cintron, UM Prof. Sandra Danziger
• Film Screenings:
  • "Calling the Ghosts"
  • "Bastard Out of Carolina"
• Reports to the President 1996-1997