NYUAD Lecture Series: Tahrir Square, 2012: The Voices of Women & Religious Minorities (3/1)

Tahrir Square, 2012: The Voices of Women and Religious Minorities

March 1, 2012 | 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: 19 Washington Square North

Viola Shafik Freelance Lecturer and Filmmaker
Yasmin Moll Department of Anthropology, NYUNY
Dina Ramadan Assistant Professor of Arabic, Bard College

In the year following Egyptian revolution, peaceful demonstrations have given way to increasingly violent and sectarian strife. Digital films and social media have documented and brought to the wider public's attention the experiences of women and minority populations in Egypt's ever-changing social and political climate. This panel brings together filmmakers, journalists, and analysts to discuss the recent past and potential future of the country and how social and digital media continues to impact and frame the course of events.

In collaboration with The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies supported by the Social Science Research Council and the NYU Center for Religion and Media with generous support from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.

Part of the series on Digital Religion: Knowledge, Politics, and Practice

Vagina Monologues Benefit Performance 2/15 and 2/16

Draperite Amber Buggs will perform in The Vagina Monologies at NYU next week. The production will benefit organizations working to stop violence against women. Please see the details below!

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The Domestic Violence Advocacy Project, Law Women, OUTLaw, BALSA, and Law Students for Human Rights at NYU Law School invite you to attend The Vagina Monologues and help raise awareness about violence against girls and women.

The truth is shocking. According to the United Nations, one of every three women on the planet will be physically or sexually abused in her lifetime. V-Day exists to address the violations, and through story telling give communities, such as NYU, an opportunity to proclaim that desecration of human dignity is unacceptable.

Use this opportunity and attack the silence!

Attend The Vagina Monologues on

February 15th and 16th, 2012 @ 8pm!

Wine and Appetizer Reception at 7pm in the Tishman Lobby

Advanced Tickets $8

$10 at the door

Location: The event will be held at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square Park South, New York, NY 10003.

Advance Purchase : Beginning February 7th tickets will be sold in Golding Lounge. You can also write to Rachel at rmaslansky@gmail.com.

100% of the proceeds will go to Sanctuary for Families, the V-Day Spotlight Campaign (Women and Girls of Haiti), and Partners for Women and Justice.

Guest Post: Katie Koumatos on Two Upcoming Women's Issues Conferences

On the west coast, we hear that New York City has everything. As a newly minted resident of Queens, I am beginning to see evidence that this might actually be true. This month there are two inexpensive and impressive conferences on women’s issues happening in the area and I can’t wait to attend.

Interested in the dynamic nature of discourse surrounding the female body? Want to learn and talk about how these ideas intersect with topics like health, race, law and education? Then you should attend Breaking Boundaries: Body Politics & the Dynamics of Difference. This conference is being held this coming weekend at Sarah Lawrence College. It is free and open to the public but you must register on the website. The conference runs Friday, March 4th from 6pm-8pm and Saturday, March 5th from 10am-6pm (there is an optional $10 luncheon on Saturday). The conference features keynote speaker Marilyn Wann, author of Fat?So!, prominent Fat Activist, and all around phenomenal speaker.

Concerned about the cultural constructs that stop women from accepting their bodies? I am too. That’s why I am attending the international summit, Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body on March 18^th and 19^th. Hosted by the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, this incredible educational opportunity will be held at The New School. Featuring international speakers from a wide range of backgrounds, this summit consists of several complex and carefully crafted panels where speakers are discussing the “toxic culture that teaches women and girls to hate their bodies” and the way they are facing this challenge in their respective fields. The summit runs 6pm-9pm on Friday, March 18^th and 8am-8pm on Saturday, March 19^th. Registration requires some level of body activist donation (the least expensive option is $20).

I will be attending both conferences with a fellow fat studies scholar from the NYU School of Social Work and we would love to have you join us. Feel free to email larissa.kyzer@nyu.edu for my contact information.

Katie*

Katie Koumatos, a transplant from Northern California, has just started her education at NYU this semester. She is trained in anthropology and studies the burgeoning fat activist movement and the discourse that occurs at the intersection of fat, food, and shame. She is greatly interested in collaborative work and would welcome contact from scholars interested in Fat Studies.