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.
Women and Gender
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, or tune in to the talk live on Watson's youtube channel
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
Nov 8, 2017
Lecture | Desert Melody: Female Love Songs of the Bedouin Desert
5:30pm – 7pm Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room, 38 Brown Street
Arabic
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War Stories: Women in Conflict Zones
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Oct 1, 2015
A Conversation with Azra Jafari, Afghanistan’s First Female Mayor
Jafari’s deep commitment to social development and peace-building was recognized in 2013 by the international N-PEACE Network Association, which selected her as a candidate for its Role Model For Peace Award for Asian nations.
4pm – 5:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Mar 11, 2015