NYC Event: Reflections on the Academic Study of Women and Islam (NYU, 31 Jan 2014)

NYC Event: Reflections on the Academic Study of Women and Islam (NYU, 31 Jan 2014)

NYC Event: Reflections on the Academic Study of Women and Islam (NYU, 31 Jan 2014)

By : Jadaliyya Reports

Reflections on the Academic Study of Women and Islam:

A Panel Discussion with Professors Lila Abu-Lughod and Suad Joseph

Friday, 31 January 2014
5:30pm-7:30pm

King Juan Carlos Auditorium
53 Washington Square South
New York University

The Hagop Kevorika Center for Near East Studes invites you to attend a discussion with Lila Abu-Lughod, professor of Anthropology and Women`s and Gender Studies at Columbia University, on her new book Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard University Press, 2013) and Suad Joseph, professor of Anthropology and Women`s Studies at the University of California Davis, on the new volume she edited Women and Islamic Cultures: Disciplinary Paradigms and Approaches, 2003-2013 (Brill 2013). The discussion moderated by Maya Mikdashi, Near Eastern Studies, NYU.

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Feminism(s), Secularism, and Religions: Encounter Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Maya Mikdashi and Other Scholars/Activsts

The following episode of Encounter (hosted by David Rutlege) features interviews with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Maya Mikdashi, as well as Leila Ahmed, Ellen Armour, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Lisa Isherwood, and Ratna Osman--all of whom are feminist professors and/or activists. In "Beyond the Boundaries," they critically discuss the relationships between feminism(s) and Islam and feminism(s) and Christianity, in addition to discussing events such as the Egyptian and US presidential elections, their potential impact on women`s rights in those countries, and the continuing sexual assaults at and around Tahrir Square. The impetus behind this program is to critically discuss the discourse on women`s rights in the Islamic and Arab worlds and the ways that secularism and religion are often distinguished through discourses on gender. The show was originally broadcast on Austalia`s ABC Radio on 2 February 2013.