Mar 30, 2021
Queer Studies | Activism in the Middle East
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event.
Women and Gender
Mar 18, 2021
Mar 5, 2021
Sherine Hafez Book Talk - Women of the Midan
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual event. Registration link will be available soon.
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. Link to register will be available soon.
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 here to join the webinar or follow on YouTube.
Nov 19, 2020
Nazanin Shahrokni - Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual Event. Register here 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
Webcast .Please click on this link to buy the book from the Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore is offering a 10% discount on event books using the code EVENT10.
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
Sep 21, 2018
Asli Zengin — The Afterlife of Gender: Sovereignty, Intimacy, and Transgender Funerals in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Giddings House 212
Mar 12, 2018
Rana Dajani – Five Scarves: Doing the Impossible—If We Can Reverse Cell Fate, Why Can’t We Redefine Success for Women?
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Metcalf Research Building, Room 101, Friedman Auditorium, 190 Thayer Street
Feb 21, 2018
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute