UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
and
UCLA Department of Women’s Studies
PRESENT
A Symposium on
Women in Conflict Zones
April 10, 2009
Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA
9am to 7:30pm
The Women in Conflict Zones Symposium, a Working Group component of
the UCLA Global South Gender Initiative, will feature a keynote/public
lecture by Shahrzad Mojab of the University of Toronto, followed
during the day by a panel and a workshop designed to explore various
conflict zones (e.g., Palestine, Iran (Kurds), Algeria, Sudan, Mexico,
Lebanon, Cuba, Eritrea, Tunisia, Philippines, Rwanda/Congo, South
Africa, and the United States where individuals may be actors,
warriors, victims, pawns, perpetrators, survivors, collaborators,
icons or symbols and may be ambivalent, complicit, and have
complicated relationships to their adversaries. In these areas women
may also be mediators, peacemakers, justice-seekers, and human rights
advocates. Symposium participants will explore these and other
similarly urgent contemporary developments shaped by the intersections
of gender, conflict, and militarism. The themes explore the nature and
rationales for violence, militarization and masculinity, the politics
of memory and naming, trauma and healing, and forms of reconciliation.
Participants include Dina Al-Kassim (UC Irvine), Azza Basarudin
(UCLA), Lara Deeb (Scripps College), Sondra Hale (UCLA), Caren Kaplan
(UC Davis), Jennifer Terry (UC Irvine), and Juliet Williams (UCLA),
and other faculty and graduate students, primarily from UCLA, who will
participate in a workshop on “Women in Conflict Zones and Human Rights
Questions—Theories, Cases, Practices, and Archival Activism” (Beyene,
Blackwell, Finch, Khedher, Santos, and Sharif).
Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA
Center for the Study of Women, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies,
and the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA
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