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Gender and the Margins: A Webinar with Lila Abu-Lughod

06.04.2021 / Created by (EMWF)

This Theory from the Margins event will discuss a forthcoming work by Lila Abu-Lughod.

More details and zoom link to be announced later. The event will also be live-streamed.

 

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. A leading voice in the debates about culture, gender, Islam, and global feminist politics, her award-winning books and articles have been translated into 14 languages.

The books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society; Writing Women’s Worlds; Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt; and Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Her most recent book, published by Harvard University Press in 2013, is titled Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Abu-Lughod’s scholarship, mostly ethnographic and based on long-term fieldwork in Egypt, has focused on the power of cultural forms, from poetry to television soap operas; the politics of knowledge and representations of cultural “others”; violence and memory; and the question of liberalism and global projects of human and women’s rights. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Carnegie Scholar, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.

Infos

  • Event type : Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Location : Online
  • Start date : 08/04/2021
  • End date : 08/04/2021
  • Start time : 14:30

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