BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Middle Eastern Studies Pro grampresent Transnational Feminist Solidarities: A Conversation\n\nIn this conversation with Professor Sunera\nThobani (University of British Columb ia)\, SU Middle Eastern Studies Program faculty\nmembers \;Carol Fadda \, Amy Kallander\, and Dana Olwan will discuss the\npolitics of transnatio nal feminist solidarities that connect struggles beyond\nfixed geographic borders and academic disciplines. Focusing on movements for\nliberation an d justice across the US\, Canada\, and the Middle East and North\nAfrica\, members of the SU community are invited to join this conversation about\n the meaning\, implications\, and challenges of engaged feminist praxis in a time\nof heightened militarism and rising anti-Muslim and anti-Arab raci sm. \;Speaker Bios:\n\nSunera Thobani\n\nSunera \;Thobani is Assoc iate Professor in\nthe Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for G ender\, Race\, Sexuality\nand Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship\nfocuses on critical race\, postcolonial and tra nsnational feminist theory\;\nintersectionality and social movements\; col onialism\, indigeneity and racial\nviolence\; globalization\, citizenship and migration\; representations of Islam\nand Muslims in South Asian and W estern media\; and Muslim Women\, Islamophobia\nand the war on terror. Dr. Thobani is the author of \;Exalted Subjects:\nStudies in the Making o f Race and Nation in Canada\, (2007) and the\nco-editor of \;Asian Wom en: Interconnections\, (2005) and \;States\nof Race: Critical Race Fem inist Theory for the 21stCentury\,\n(2010). \; Her research is also pu blished in numerous edited volumes and\npeer-reviewed journals\, including Borderlands\, Atlantis\, Feminist Theory\, The\nSupreme Court Review\, In ternational Journal of Communication\, Hypatia and Race\n&\; Class.&nbs p\; \;\n\n Carol W.N. Fadda\n\nCarol W.N. Fadda \;is\nAssociate Pr ofessor of English at Syracuse University\, where she teaches on\ncritical race and ethnic studies\, transnational and diasporic studies\, and Arab\ nAmerican literatures and cultures. A recipient of an NEH summer grant and a\nFuture of Minority Studies Fellowship\, her essays on gender\, race\, ethnicity\,\nwar trauma\, and transnational citizenship in Arab and Arab A merican literary\ntexts have appeared in a variety of journals and edited collections. She is the\nauthor of \;Contemporary Arab\nAmerican Liter ature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Home and Belonging \;(NYU Pre ss\, 2014)\, which analyzes the ways in\nwhich depictions of Arab homeland s in Arab American literary and cultural texts\nfrom the 1990s onwards pla y a crucial role in reshaping cultural articulations\nof US citizenship an d belonging. Her current book project is titled \;Carceral States and Dissident Citizenships: Narratives of\nResistance in an Age of “Terror.”&n bsp\;She serves as the editor of the Critical Arab American\nStudies book series at Syracuse University Press.\n\nAmy Kallander\n\nAmy Kallader is A ssociate Professor of Middle\nEast History and affiliated faculty with the Women’s and Gender Studies\nDepartment. Her first book \;Women\, Gend er\, and the Palace Households in\nOttoman Tunisia\, offers a social histo ry of women and the ruling family in\nthe 18th \;and 19th \;centur ies\, and her current\nproject \;‘Our Revolution’: Tunisian Women in t he Global 1960s \;examines\nthe interactions between postcolonial stat e feminism\, transnational women’s\nmovements\, women in development in Tu nisia and the Middle East in relation to\nthe global cultural and politica l movements of the 1960s.\n\nDana M. Olwan\n\nDana M. Olwan is Assistant P rofessor of Women’s\nand Gender Studies at Syracuse University. \; Her research is located at the\nnexus of feminist theorizations of gendered a nd sexual violence and\nsolidarities across settler borders and states.&nb sp\; Her work has appeared or\nis forthcoming the \;Journal of Settler Colonial Studies\, \;American\nQuarterly \;and \;Feminist For mations. \;She is completing\nher first book manuscript\, \;Travel ing Discourses: Gendered Violence and\nthe Transnational Politics of the ‘ Honor Crime.’ \; \; Sponsored by Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs\, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, Middle Eastern&nb sp\;Studies Program\, International Relations Program\, Department of Wome n's &\; Gender Studies\, South Asia Center\, and Department of Politica l Science.  \; \; Contact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information : hkarakas@syr.edu \; DTEND:20190423T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T074922Z DTSTART:20190423T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Transnational Feminist Solidarities: A Conversation UID:RFCALITEM639140681628078966 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Middle Eastern Studies Program

present

Transnational Feminist Solidarities: A Conversation

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In this c onversation with Professor Sunera\nThobani (University of British Columbia )\, SU Middle Eastern Studies Program faculty\nmembers \;Carol Fadda\, Amy Kallander\, and Dana Olwan will discuss the\npolitics of transnationa l feminist solidarities that connect struggles beyond\nfixed geographic bo rders and academic disciplines. Focusing on movements for\nliberation and justice across the US\, Canada\, and the Middle East and North\nAfrica\, m embers of the SU community are invited to join this conversation about\nth e meaning\, implications\, and challenges of engaged feminist praxis in a time\nof heightened militarism and rising anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism . \;

Speaker Bios:

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Sunera Thob ani

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Sunera \;Thobani is Associate Professor in\nthe D epartment of Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality \nand Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarshi p\nfocuses on critical race\, postcolonial and transnational feminist theo ry\;\nintersectionality and social movements\; colonialism\, indigeneity a nd racial\nviolence\; globalization\, citizenship and migration\; represen tations of Islam\nand Muslims in South Asian and Western media\; and Musli m Women\, Islamophobia\nand the war on terror. Dr. Thobani is the author o f \;Exalted Subjects:\nStudies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada\, (2007) and the\nco-editor of \;Asian Women: Interconne ctions\, (2005) and \;States\nof Race: Critical Race Feminist T heory for the 21stCentury\,\n(2010). \; Her research is also published in numerous edited volumes and\npeer-reviewed journals\, i ncluding Borderlands\, Atlantis\, Feminist Theory\, The\nSupreme Court Rev iew\, International Journal of Communication\, Hypatia and Race\n&\; Cl ass. \; \;

\n\n Carol W.N. Fadda

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Carol W.N. Fadda \;is\nAssociate Professor of English at Syracuse University \, where she teaches on\ncritical race and ethnic studies\, transnational and diasporic studies\, and Arab\nAmerican literatures and cultures. A rec ipient of an NEH summer grant and a\nFuture of Minority Studies Fellowship \, her essays on gender\, race\, ethnicity\,\nwar trauma\, and transnation al citizenship in Arab and Arab American literary\ntexts have appeared in a variety of journals and edited collections. She is the\nauthor of \; Contemporary Arab\nAmerican Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Home and Belonging \;(NYU Press\, 2014)\, which analyzes the wa ys in\nwhich depictions of Arab homelands in Arab American literary and cu ltural texts\nfrom the 1990s onwards play a crucial role in reshaping cult ural articulations\nof US citizenship and belonging. Her current book proj ect is titled \;Carceral States and Dissident Citizenships: Narrati ves of\nResistance in an Age of “Terror.” \;She serves as t he editor of the Critical Arab American\nStudies book series at Syracuse U niversity Press.

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Amy Kallander

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Amy Kallader is Associate Professor of Middle\nEast History and affiliated faculty with th e Women’s and Gender Studies\nDepartment. Her first book \;Women\, Gender\, and the Palace Households in\nOttoman Tunisia\, offers a soci al history of women and the ruling family in\nthe 18th \;an d 19th \;centuries\, and her current\nproject \;‘Our Revolution’: Tunisian Women in the Global 1960s \;examines\nthe i nteractions between postcolonial state feminism\, transnational women’s\nm ovements\, women in development in Tunisia and the Middle East in relation to\nthe global cultural and political movements of the 1960s.

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Dana M. Olwan

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Dana M. Olwan is Assistant P rofessor of Women’s\nand Gender Studies at Syracuse University. \; Her research is located at the\nnexus of feminist theorizations of gendered a nd sexual violence and\nsolidarities across settler borders and states.&nb sp\; Her work has appeared or\nis forthcoming the \;Journal of Sett ler Colonial Studies\, \;American\nQuarterly \;and  \;Feminist Formations. \;She is completing\nher first book manu script\, \;Traveling Discourses: Gendered Violence and\nthe Transna tional Politics of the ‘Honor Crime.’ \; \;

Sponsor ed by Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs\, Moynihan Institut e of Global Affairs\, Middle Eastern \;Studies Program\, International Relations Program\, Department of Women's &\; Gender Studies\, South A sia Center\, and Department of Political Science.  \; \;

Co ntact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu \;

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