Please join the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) for the first distinguished lecture of the academic year with Professor Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University) on Monday, October 13, in the Humanities Seminar Room, Academic Building 6051, College Avenue Campus from 4 pm - 5.30 pm.
Based on a recently published co-edited volume entitled Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024), this talk will highlight anti-gender and anti-LBGTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries. Providing empirical examples and case studies from both Europe and the Middle East, one aim is to decolonize knowledge production by de-centering Europe and simultaneously de-exceptionalizing the Middle East. The various case studies will illustrate the multifarious ways in which anti-genderism and homophobia are inextricably linked to racism, as well as to anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments, attitudes, and policies.
Nadje Al-Ali is the Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt), Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (Zed Books, 2009, co-edited with Nicola Pratt), Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books), and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000).
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