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Start: 10/29/2012 09:30
The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures presents: Life Narratives of Muslim Women in the Middle East and South AsiaNewcomb HallKaleidoscope Room October 29th & 30th Monday, October 29Morning Session: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PMGender, Culture, & the SelfOpening Remarks: Alireza Korangyz Chair/Discussant: Mehr Farooqi Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley: “Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia”· Jasmin Darznik: “Of Iran, America, and the Writing In Between: Memoir and the Creation of Diasporic Iranian Identity”· Marie Ostby: “Persepolis, the 21st Century Graphic Novel, and the Female ‘Other’” Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PMIdentity & SpaceChair/Discussant: Neeti Nair· Rina Williams: “A Tale of Two Women: Jankibai Joshi, Lakshmibai Kelkar and the Early Rise of Religious Nationalism in Late Colonial India” Hanadi Al-Samman: “Mosaic Autobiography in Arab Women’s Diasporic Fiction” Nima Naghibi: “Human Rights and Traumatic Witness in Diasporic Iranian Women’s Prison Writings” Tuesday, October 30Morning Session: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PMJourneys Inward & Outward: The Art of Composing the SelfChair/Discussant: Jahan Ramazani Haleh Esfandiari: “Walking the Tightrope: Privacy and Public Life” Nesta Ramazani: “Writing My Memoir: A Meeting of Cultures” Azadeh Moaveni: “After the Fact: Hedging, Self-Censorship, and the Prospect of Return in Iranian Memoir” Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PMThe Archaeology of Women’s Origin StoriesChair/Discussant: Geeta Patel Michael Beard: “Cinematically Speaking, Where do Women Come From? An Iranian Quest” Elizabeth Thompson: “Halide Edib: History and Her Story in Turkey” Marilyn Booth: “Locating Women’s Autobiographical Writing in Colonial Egypt, 1885-1930”
With generous support from the Page-Barbour and Clay Endowments, and from Loughborough University in England, this conference is co-sponsored by Women, Gender & Sexuality and the South Asia Center. | ||
