July 30, 2015, 9:00am-2:30pm
1957 E Street NW, 6th Floor, Lindner Family Commons
The Global Gender Program
The Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
9:00am
Welcome: Barbara Miller
Director, Global Gender Program
9:15am
Keynote address: Homa Hoodfar
Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Canada
Professor Hoodfar’s research lies in the intersection of political economy and gender and development in Muslim contexts and in unrevealing and understanding the complexities and implications of micro-macro linkages between social policies and women’s lives. She has studied survival and empowerment strategies among those marginalized by legal constraints particular in the area of family law and citizenship, economic penury, the women’s movement and civil society, women in local and national politics and displacement, with a focus on women and younger people in Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and among Canadian Muslims. She has published extensively on reproductive health policies, their discursive justifications, and their implications for women’s lives. She has been actively involved in the Women Living Under Muslim Laws network since the 1980s.
10:00-1:30pm
Panels and discussion
[details forthcoming]
1:30-2:30pm
Buffet lunch
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