The Politics of Gender and Islam

New Approaches in Middle East & South Asia Studies Spring Symposium

10:00 AM: Welcome

10:05 AM: New Approaches in South Asian Studies

Katherine Lemons, McGill University: "The Politics of Divorce: Islamic Law and the Making of Indian Secularism"

Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India"

11:20 AM: New Approaches in Middle East Studies

Begüm Adalet, Cornell University: "Hotels and Highways: Modernizing Cold War Turkey"

Natalie Khazaal, Texas A&M University: "Pretty Liar: The Politics of Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon"

12:30 PM: Roundtable Discussion

Free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Juanita Horan at 315.443.4927 or jmhoran@syr.edu

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Moynihan Institute, the South Asia Center, the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement, and the departments of History, International Relations, Religion, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies