Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe

A public lecture by Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College

Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe

Thursday, February 15, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383

Kristen Ghodsee is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College and is currently based at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Her research interests include Gender and Islam, postsocialist cultural studies, transnational feminism, economic development and transition, gender and development, and nongovernmental organizations.  In addition to her book, The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Duke University Press, 2005) she has published in journals such as Signs, Gender and Women's Studies Quarterly, The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society and L'Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft.

Cost: Free

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For more information please contact

Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies

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