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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:44:48 -0600
From: eileen mcnamara <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: : Colloquium: Women, Islam and Transnational Feminism, March 5
Please note this colloquium has a lot of Africa content.
Colloquium: Women, Islam and Transnational Feminism
Organized by the Women's Studies Research Center
and the Women & Citizenship Research Circle
Cosponsored by the International Institute, Center for South Asia,
African Studies Program, Middle Eastern Studies Program, and the
Religious Studies Program
Friday, March 5, 2004
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
The colloquium, which is open to faculty, students, and the public,
brings together leading scholars of women and Islam to explore the
global activism of women in Islamic countries relating to women's
rights and debates within feminist scholarship and international
movements regarding the role of Islam and women. It looks at the
ways in which women in Islamic countries have contributed to
international feminism as well as how they have benefited from
transnational linkages. The colloquium will also examine tensions in
international coalitions around particular causes, strategies
adopted, and the terms on which issues have been addressed.
9 am
Between Secular Feminism and Islamic Feminism
Margot Badran (Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Department of Religion and Preceptor in the Institute for the Study
of Islamic Thought, Program of African Studies, Northwestern
University)
10:30 am
Ambivalent Politics: Sudanese Women and the Islamist Project
Sondra Hale (Professor or Anthropology and Women's Studies, UCLA)
12:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 pm
Islamic Feminism and "The Spectacle of the Other Woman"
Minoo Moallem (Associate Professor and Chair, Women's Studies
Department, San Francisco State University)
2:30 pm Globalizing the Local: Transnational Feminism and Afghan
Women's Rights
Valentine M. Moghadam (Director of Women's Studies and Associate
Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University)
4:00 pm
International Solidarity Strategies and Women's Rights under Sharia
Law in Nigeria
Ayesha Imam is founding director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights
in Nigeria and a coordinator of the international network Women
Living Under Muslim Laws.
The Colloquium was made possible by the generous support of the
Anonymous Fund and the Women & Citizenship Research Circle of the
International Institute.
For more information please contact the Women's Studies Research
Center, (608) 263-2053, or email:
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Margot Badran is Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Department of Religion and Preceptor in the Institute for the Study
of Islamic Thought at Program of African Studies at Northwestern
University. Professor Badran has researched and written on women and
feminist thought and organizing, and everyday activisms, in the
Middle East and Muslim societies for over three decades. Her books
include: Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of
Modern Egypt, Harem Years: The Memoirs of An Egyptian Feminist Huda
Shaarawi (which she translated, edited, and introduced) and Opening
the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (which she co-edited)
and has just come out in a new and expanded edition titled Opening
the Gates: An Arab Feminist Anthology. She is currently completing a
book on comparative Islamic feminisms in Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, and
South Africa
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Sondra Hale is Professor or Anthropology and Women's Studies,
University of California Los Angeles. Professor Sondra Hale is
recognized both nationally and internationally for her contributions
to the fields of anthropology, women's studies, cultural studies, and
to African and Middle Eastern studies. She is one of the leading
scholars of Sudanese women's studies and has also done pioneering
work in Eritrea on former women combatants. She has produced a
well-received book, Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism
and the State, in addition to dozens of articles and book chapters.
Dr. Hale has served as President of the Association for Middle East
Women's Studies (AMEWS) and serves on its Board of Directors and
heads the Publications Committee. She was recently nominated for
President of the Middle East Studies Association. She was awarded
UCLA's highest teaching honor and last year was awarded the Teaching
Excellence Award from the Women's Studies Program. She was a founder
of Feminists in Support of Palestinian Women and is a Coordinator of
a new group Birzeit Right to Education Campaign U.S. Branch.
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Minoo Moallem is Associate Professor and Chair, Women's Studies Department
San Francisco State University. Professor Moallem is co-editor (with
Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation.
Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and the State. Duke University
Press, 1999. She is also the guest editor of a special issue of
Comparative Studies South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, on the
Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees. She is currently working on
a book entitled, Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic
Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy (forthcoming
from University of California Press). Trained as a sociologist, she
writes on postcolonial and transnational feminist theories, gender
and fundamentalism, globalization and Iranian cultural politics and
diasporas.
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Valentine M. Moghadam is Director of Women's Studies and Associate
Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. Dr. Moghadam has
written two books, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the
Middle East (1993 - updated second edition June 2003), and Women,
Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998).
Her third book, Globalizing Women: Gender, Globalization, and
Transnational Feminist Network, is to be published by The Johns
Hopkins University Press. In addition, she has edited six books,
including Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and
Feminisms in International Perspective (1994), Democratic Reform and
the Position of Women in Transition Economies (1993), and Patriarchy
and Development: Womens Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century
(1996). Her current areas of research are globalization,
transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship in the
Middle East, and women in Afghanistan
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Ayesha Imam is founding director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights
in Nigeria and since 1992 she has been a leader of the international
network Women Living Under Muslim Laws, for which she coordinated
research in eight countries in Africa and the Middle East. She won
the 2002 John Humphrey Human Rights Award, together with BAOBAB, for
work in protecting women rights under the new Sharia criminal law
acts in Nigeria. Dr. Imam is the editor or co-editor of eight books
dealing with various aspects of women and development in Africa and
Nigeria, many of which are influential collections bringing together
the writings of leading scholars of women's studies in Africa. One
such volume is Engendering African Social Sciences, edited by Ayesha
Imam, Amina Mama and Fatou Sow (CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, 1997).
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