Apr 16, 2021
The Day I Lost My Shadow: A Conversation With Film Director Soudade Kaadan
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Virtual Event
Happening Now
Women and Gender
Apr 7, 2021
Feminist Anti-Racist Activisms: Intersections of Feminist and Anti-Racist Activisms in the Middle East and North Africa
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event. Register to obtain your access link.
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
Virtual Event
Women and Gender
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 18, 2021
Queer Studies | Activism in the Middle East
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event.
Mar 5, 2021
Sherine Hafez Book Talk - Women of the Midan
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual event. Register for webinar access link.
Feb 19, 2021
Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Labor and Employment in the Middle East
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event. Register to receive your access link.
Feb 11, 2021
This Little Father Obsession: A Conversation With Film Director Sélim Mourad
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Virtual event.
Feb 5, 2021
Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930: A Conversation with Judith Surkis '92
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Register here for this virtual event
Jan 27, 2021
Feminist Mobilizations at the time of COVID-19: Experiences from the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event.
Register to join the webinar.
Nov 19, 2020
Nazanin Shahrokni - Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event. Register to join the webinar. We will be providing interpretation into Arabic language for the audience.
Nov 13, 2020
Writing Queer / Queer Writing: Diasporic Dialogues between the Middle East and Brazil
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event. Registration required.
Oct 20, 2020
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa ─ Virtual Book Talk
12pm – 1:30pm Register here to join the webinar
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
Women and Gender
Sep 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Virtual Book Event
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Feb 9–10, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
Workshop – Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
2:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 7, 2019
Book Talk | Gender, Governance and Islam
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 19, 2019
Screening of Period. End of Sentence. and Panel on Women's Development: Solving Big Problems through Global Approaches
2pm – 3:30pm DeCiccio Family Auditorium, Salomon Center for Teaching
Sep 20, 2019
Mar 13, 2019
Lecture + Dinner with Mona Abo-Zena – “It Must be That time of the Month.”: Muslim Girls Navigating Coming of Age and Cultural Stigma around Menstruation
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. the Brown Faculty Club, Portrait Room
1, Bannister St.
Mar 13, 2019
Asli Zengin – Caring for the Dead: Intimacy, Abandonment and Transgender Funerals in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 6, 2019
Lecture + Book Signing with Blair Imani – The Revolution Will Be Ours
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. 85 Waterman St. Room 130
Feb 14, 2019
Maya Mikdashi – Afterlives of a Census: Inheritance, History, and Biopower in Contemporary Lebanon
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Jan 30, 2019
Nadje Al-Ali – Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East?
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 9 – Dec 13, 2018
The Displaced Language of Mesopotamia
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Watson Institute
Oct 15, 2018
Shenila Khoja-Moolji (’05 A.B.) — Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute