Conference Participants:
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Rogaia AbuSharaf, Georgetown University
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Azza Basarudin, Harvard Divinity University
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Janice Boddy, University of Toronto
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Esha De, UCLA
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Lara Deeb, Scripps College
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Sherna Berger Gluck, CSULB
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Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University
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Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan
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Sherine Hafez, UC Riverside
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Grace Hong, UCLA
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Suad Joseph, UC Davis
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Sharmila Lodhia, Santa Clara University
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Bayard Lyons, Independent Scholar
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Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto
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Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
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Khanum Shaikh, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
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Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
UCLA Graduate Student Roundtable:
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Dalal Alfares
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Kristina Benson
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Tina Beyene
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Naazneen Diwan
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Naveen Minai
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Esha Momeni
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Rana Sharif
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Gina Singh
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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
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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.