In Remnants, tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory.

This talk will be about how South Asian Muslim women used food in their travel writings to distinguish between self and other, shedding light on the role of alimentary identities in shaping colonialism, postcoloniality, nationalism, and globalization.

This talk, as part of the McMillan Stewart Lecture Series, will survey the broad ways that gender plays a role in food traditions within the Coptic Orthodox Christian community, both in Egypt and in diasporic contexts. Please join us on April 27 at 5pm in 14E-304.

Please join us as Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Susanne M. Klausen joins us to discuss abortion in South Africa under apartheid during the years between 1948 and 1994.

This event will take place on November 7 at 5 pm in room 3-333. This event will be open to the public.

Biannual McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series with Jennifer Rose Denetdale: “Building the Perfect Human to Invade: An Indigenous Feminist Queer Analysis of the Pandemic on the Navajo Nation”

Virtual event. RSVP for zoom link: tinyurl.com/denetdale

Biannual McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series with Zahra Ali: “Women, Gender and Feminisms in Iraq: between state collapse, social movements and fragmentation”

Location: 2 - 105

Against Fragmentation: Palestinian Women's Engagement Across the Green Line

3-133

Women's mobility across the Green Line that divides Israel and the West Bank is shaped by both traditional forms of economic and cultural practices as well as by Israel's gendered policies of division and enclosure of different Palestinian populations. 

A workshop organized by Melissa Bilal and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT History

MIT Campus, building 4 room 4-237

Sponsors:
MIT McMillan-Stewart Chair, Women and Gender Studies Program
Institute of International Education
Armenian International Women's Association
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
Mirak Family Foundation

Biannual McMillan-Stewart lecture on Women in the Developing World: with Suad Joseph presenting “State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab State”

3-370

Mcmillan-Stewart Biannual lecture on Women in the Developing World
Miriam Cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University
MIT 3-370
 

Sherene Seikaly, Assistant Professor, Department of History University of California, Santa Barbara, Intro by Sa'ed Atshan, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Swarthmore College,Tuesday March 8, 5 PM, Bldg 3 Room 133

Anver Emon, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Relligion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Wednesday, December 2, 5 PM Bldg 3 Room 270

Hourig Attarian, Concordia University and Melissa Blilal, Columbia University, Monday, April 13, 5 PM, Bldg 4 Room 270

Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan, Monday, November 3, 4 PM, Bldg 3 Room 333