NY Event: “Islamic Visibility in European Publics” - 4/20

“Islamic Visibility in European Publics”

a talk by
Prof. Nilüfer GÖle

Friday, April 20, 2007, 4:00 –6:00 p.m.
Sociology Lounge/Room 6112
6th Floor

Reception to Follow

The Graduate Center, CUNY
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th-35th St.)

View event flyer for more details: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/memeac/NGole.pdf

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Nilüfer Göle is professor of sociology at École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a leading authority
on the political movement of today’s educated, urbanized,
religious Muslim women. A prominent scholar of Turkish origin,
she is the author of The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and
Veiling(University of Michigan Press, 1997). Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic gender codes. Her sociological approach also has produced a broader critique of Eurocentrism with regard to
emerging Islamic identities at the close of the twentieth
century. She has explored the specific topic of covering,
as well as the complexities of living in a multicultural world.

Co-Sponsored with the
Ph.D. Program in Sociology

NY Event: Sheikha Haya on Arab Women - 5/7

H.E. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa

President of the 61^st Session of the UN General Assembly

who will give opening remarks on:

Towards the Rise of Women

in the Arab World

presented by

Amat Al Alim Alsoswa

Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP

Discussant

Christa Salamandra

Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY

The Arab Human Development Report 2005: toward the rise of women in the Arab world, released in December 2006, argues that women in the Arab world still lack equal opportunity and consequently are not able to realize their full potential. This situation constitutes a problem not just for women, but for progress and prosperity in Arab societies as a whole. The region should now assure that all Arab women be afforded full opportunities across the social spectrum, particularly to access basic health services, to generate and acquire knowledge on an equal footing with men, and to engage in activities outside the home.

Monday, May 7, 2007, 6:00 –8:00 p.m.

Room 9205-9207

Persons wishing to attend please email: nnolutshungu@gc.cuny.edu

Sponsored by the Ralph Bunche Institute and the Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Center at the CUNY Graduate Center

Event: Hizbullah: History, Popularity, Society - 3/19

Hizbullah: History, Popularity, Society

talk by

Lara Deeb

Monday, March 19, 2007, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Room 9204/5; 9th Floor
The Graduate Center, CUNY
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th-35th St.)

Books will be available for purchase
Reception to Follow

View event flyer for more details:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/memeac/LDeeb.pdf

Books will be available for purchase
Reception to Follow

Prof. Deeb will explain the history of Hizbullah from its origins
as a militia resisting the Israeli invasion and occupation of
Lebanon to its development into a legitimate political party that
participates in the Lebanese state. She will also discuss the social
base of Hizbullah's constituencies and some of the reasons for its
growing popularity in Lebanon and the region. This summer's war as
well as ongoing political developments in Lebanon will be
addressed.

Lara Deeb is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor
in Women’s Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She
is also an Academy Scholar at Harvard University’s Academy for
International and Area Studies (2003-04, 2006-07). She earned her
Ph.D. from Emory University, receiving the Malcolm H. Kerr
Oustanding Dissertation Award for her work on religiosity among
Shi’i women in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Enchanted
Modern:Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon was published by
Princeton University Press in 2006. She is also the author of a
number of articles on the transformation of Shi‘i religious ritual,
Islamic women’s participation in the public sphere, and Hizbullah
in Lebanon. Her current projects include an analysis of the
intersection of public religiosities and understandings of
temporality, a new project on “interfaith intimacies” in
relation to transnational discourses about sexuality and religion,
and an ongoing collaborative field research project on the Islamic
cultural sphere in Lebanon.

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