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 Studi es Program presentsThe\nUniverse of Rights: \; Universality and Locali ty in Women’s Rights\n\nHuman rights discourses\, the universal convention s on human rights\, the discourses on women’s rights as human rights all s et in motion critical benchmarks globally for women’s movements and nation states. \; The question is what undergirds these benchmarks? \; W hat are the assumptions uncritically built into these rights\, these conve ntions\, these discourses? \; Do they carry with them political and cu ltural hegemonies that foreclose diverse possibilities? The lecture offers an examination of the important contributions of watershed moments in wom en and human rights and the unexamined undercurrents washed along with the m. \;Q&\;A will follow\nand \;be \;moderated by Ivy Raines\ , Syracuse University \;Suad JosephDistinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women's StudiesUniversity of Ca lifornia\, Davis \;Suad\nJoseph \;is \;Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and\nGender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at t he University of California\, Davis.\nShe is the founder of the Middle Eas t Research Group in Anthropology (which\nevolved into the Middle East Sect ion of the American Anthropological\nAssociation)\, founder and founding p resident of the Association for Middle East\nWomen's Studies (AMEWS) and f ounder and director of the Arab Families Working\nGroup. She founded and d irects the University of California Davis Arab Region\nConsortium\, includ ing the American University of Beirut\, the American\nUniversity in Cairo\ , the Lebanese American University\, Birzeit University\,\nAmerican Univer sity of Sharjah\, and UC Davis. She was president of the Middle\nEast Stud ies Association of North America in 2010-2011. She is co-founder and\nfoun ding president of the Arab American Studies Association and co-founder of\ nthe Association for Middle East Anthropology \;and the \;Journal of\nMiddle East Women’s Studies. \;She is General Editor of\nthe \ ;Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She has edited or\nco-edited 10 books\, and published over 100 articles in journals and books\, most\nr ecently \;Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews \;(2018) and \ ;Arab\nAmerican Women: Representation and Refusal \;(2021). She is the founder and\nfounding \;director of the Middle East/South Asia Studie s Program at UC\nDavis and was awarded the UC Davis Prize – the largest un dergraduate teaching\nand research prize in the United States. She the Mid dle East Studies\nAssociation Jere L. Bacharach Life Time Service Award in 2019 and the UC Davis\nEdward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-2 021.Click here to register \; For more information\, please contact Ha vva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request accommodation arrangeme nts please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu. DTEND:20210308T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260415T170646Z DTSTART:20210308T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Universe of Rights: Universality and Locality in Women’s Rights UID:RFCALITEM639118552060344850 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

Middle Eastern Studies Program presents


The\nUnive rse of Rights: \; Universality and Locality in Women’s Rights\n\n< br>


Human rights discourses\, the universal conventions on hu man rights\, the discourses on women’s rights as human rights all set in m otion critical benchmarks globally for women’s movements and nation states . \; The question is what undergirds these benchmarks? \; What are the assumptions uncritically built into these rights\, these conventions\ , these discourses? \; Do they carry with them political and cultural hegemonies that foreclose diverse possibilities? The lecture offers an exa mination of the important contributions of watershed moments in women and human rights and the unexamined undercurrents washed along with them.  \;

Q&\;A will follow\nand \;be \;moderated by Ivy Raines\ , Syracuse University \;


Suad Joseph

Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender\, Sexua lity\, and Women's Studies

University of California\, Davis \;


Suad\nJoseph \;is \;Distinguished Research Profess or of Anthropology and\nGender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the Univ ersity of California\, Davis.\nShe is the founder of the Middle East Resea rch Group in Anthropology (which\nevolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological\nAssociation)\, founder and founding presiden t of the Association for Middle East\nWomen's Studies (AMEWS) and founder and director of the Arab Families Working\nGroup. She founded and directs the University of California Davis Arab Region\nConsortium\, including the American University of Beirut\, the American\nUniversity in Cairo\, the L ebanese American University\, Birzeit University\,\nAmerican University of Sharjah\, and UC Davis. She was president of the Middle\nEast Studies Ass ociation of North America in 2010-2011. She is co-founder and\nfounding pr esident of the Arab American Studies Association and co-founder of\nthe As sociation for Middle East Anthropology \;and the \;Journal of\nMid dle East Women’s Studies. \;She is General Editor of\nthe \;Encycl opedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She has edited or\nco-edited 10 book s\, and published over 100 articles in journals and books\, most\nrecently  \;Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews \;(2018) and \;Arab\n American Women: Representation and Refusal \;(2021). She is the founde r and\nfounding \;director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Progr am at UC\nDavis and was awarded the UC Davis Prize – the largest undergrad uate teaching\nand research prize in the United States. She the Middle Eas t Studies\nAssociation Jere L. Bacharach Life Time Service Award in 2019 a nd the UC Davis\nEdward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-2021.


Cl ick here to register

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For more information\, p lease contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request accommo dation arrangements please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu.

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