PALESTINE AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST SOLIDARITY: RACE, GENDER AND GENOCIDE
TUESDAY - MARCH 12, 2024 - 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST
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PRESENTERS:
Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies. Her most recent book is: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022).
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian- a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance, gender violence, law and society and genocide studies. She is the author of numerous academic articles and books among them “Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study” published in 2010; “Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear”, published in 2015; “Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding”, published in 2019; all by Cambridge University Press. She also co-edited two books, the latest entitled: “When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism”, CUP 2021, and is completing another one with Lila Abu-Lughod and Rema Hammami entitled: The Cunning of Gender Based Violence”.
Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist who works to uplift the lived experiences, histories, and political contributions of Palestinian women and Palestinian feminism. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, an executive board member of Insaniyyat, the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Zeynep K .Korkman is an associate professor of gender studies at UCLA. Her research explores the gendered relationships between affect, labor, religion, and transnational feminist politics, with a focus on Turkey and the broader Middle East. Her book, Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (2023, Duke University Press) explores the proliferating fortunetelling economy of millennial Turkey as an affective window on the gendered contradictions of neoliberalism, secularism, and religiously accented authoritarianism. Her work has been published in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Formations, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Journal of Middle East Women Studies, and Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Minoo Moallem is a Professor of Gender and Women Studies and an affiliated faculty with several departments and centers at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Persian Carpets: The Nation As a Transnational Commodity, Routledge, 2018.
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