Event

Gender in Middle East Studies

Speakers:
Dr. Beth Baron, Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Dr. Leslie Peirce, Dr. Elizabeth F. Thompson

DATE: Friday, January 30, 2015
TIME: 12:30pm
LOCATION: Claudia Cohen Hall - 402

Beth Baron is Professor in the Department of History, Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, and Director, MA in Middle Eastern Studies at City University of New York- Graduate Center. She is the author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (University of California Press, 2005). Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (Oxford University Press, 2011). Leslie Peirce is Professor of History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Silver Professor at New York University. She is the author of Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (University of California Press, 2003). Elizabeth F. Thompson is a Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Presented by the Middle East Center University of Pennsylvania