Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South
A conference followed by a reception in honor of Professor Sondra Hale, UCLA
Friday, October 28, 2011
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
California Room, Faculty Center
UCLA
Conference Participants:
- Rogaia AbuSharaf, Georgetown University
- Azza Basarudin, Harvard Divinity University
- Janice Boddy, University of Toronto
- Esha De, UCLA
- Lara Deeb, Scripps College
- Sherna Berger Gluck, CSULB
- Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University
- Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan
- Sherine Hafez, UC Riverside
- Grace Hong, UCLA
- Suad Joseph, UC Davis
- Sharmila Lodhia, Santa Clara University
- Bayard Lyons, Independent Scholar
- Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto
- Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
- Khanum Shaikh, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
- Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
UCLA Graduate Student Roundtable:
- Dalal Alfares
- Kristina Benson
- Tina Beyene
- Naazneen Diwan
- Naveen Minai
- Esha Momeni
- Rana Sharif
- Gina Singh
- Sabah Uddin
Conference Program
9:00-9:35 AM – Registration and Film: The Dislocation of Amber
9:35-9:50 AM – Opening Remarks by Co-organizers
Susan Slyomovics, Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA; Sherine Hafez, Women’s Studies, UC Riverside; and Carole Browner, Chair, Anthropology, UCLA
9:50-10:00 AM – Video Presentation: Talking Prison, Creating Art, and Making Justice
Based on Women Political Prisoners from the Middle East Project, dedicated to Sondra Hale
By Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto
10:00-11:40 AM – Panel I: Sudan Studies
Chair: Ellen Gruenbaum, Chair, Anthropology, Purdue University
• Janice Boddy, University of Toronto
Of Marriage and the Market in Selima, S. Khartoum
• Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan
State of Vulnerability and Humanitarian Visibility on the Verge of Sudan’s Secession:
Lubna’s Pants and the and the Transnational Politics of Rights and Dissent
• Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
Art and Dialectics”: Sondra Hale and the Anthropology of Sudanese Art
• Rogaia Abusharaf, Georgetown University
The Lessons of Sondra Hale
11:40 AM-1:10 PM – Lunch Break
1:10-2:40 PM – Panel II: Feminist Research in the Middle East
Chair: Sherna Berger Gluck, Professor Emerita, CSU Long Beach
• Lara Deeb, Scripps College
Representational Paralysis: Researching Temporary Marriage in Lebanon
• Suad Joseph, UC Davis
All in the Family: Familiar Gender Syndromes in the ME/NA Region
• Sherine Hafez, UC Riverside
Now What? Women’s Citizenship After the Egyptian Uprising:
Navigating the Twists and Turns of An Ongoing Revolution
• Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
Transnational Feminist Critique: Scholar-Activism and Ethnographic Accountability
2:40-2:50 PM – Break
2:50-4:30 PM – Panel III: Transnational Gender Studies
Chair: Esha De, Departments of Women’s Studies and Writing Programs, UCLA
• Bayard Lyons, Independent Scholar
Engaging Youth to the Exclusion of Young Women:
Exploring Youth Media Moments in Turkish Cypriot Television and Sierra Leonean Hip Hop
• Khanum Shaikh, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Religious Femininities, National Sovereignty, & the Global War on Terror:
Pakistan’s Lal Masjid Movement
• Sharmila Lodhia, Santa Clara University
“Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!” Perceptions of Radical Feminism and Disobedient Daughters in the Men’s Rights Movement in India
• Azza Basarudin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Divinity School
“A good wife is a good sex worker to her husband. What is wrong with being a whore in bed to your husband?”: Reconfiguring Marriage, Family and Morality in Malaysia
4:30-4:45 PM – Break
4:45-5:45 PM – Roundtable: Gender Dynamics – UCLA Graduate Students
Chair: Grace Hong, Asian American Studies and Women's Studies, UCLA
-Dalal Alfares
-Kristina Benson
-Tina Beyene
-Naazneen Diwan
-Naveen Minai
-Esha Momeni
-Rana Sharif
-Gina Singh
-Sabah Uddin
6:00-8:00 PM – Reception
Open Mic – 6:00-6:45 PM
Closing Remarks: Sondra Hale, UCLA – 6:45-7:00 PM
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
For more information please contact
Johanna Romero
Tel: (310) 825-1455
romero@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies, Alessandro Duranti, Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA; UC Riverside Women's Studies Dept.
