BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:516@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150227T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150227T150000 DTSTAMP:20150226T000943Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/feminist-perspectives-on-resistanc e-and-solidarity/ SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives on Resistance and Solidarity DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\n\nDr. Rabab Abdulhadi and Dr. Simona Sharoni met over twenty five years ago and have collaborated over the years on multiple sc holarly and activist projects. Aside from sharing a life commitment to the struggle of peace with justice in Palestine and Israel\, these two promin ent feminist scholars have made contributions to other struggles for socia l\, gender and sexual justice in the academy as well as at other internati onal and North American sites.\n\nAbdulhadi and Sharoni will offer such an alyses including:\n>\; The distorted dominant media coverage of the assa ult\, which ignored the power disparities between Palestinians and Israel\ n>\; The racist and gendered images and statements deployed to represent the conflict.\n>\; The impact of the violence on\, and the responses of Palestinian and Israeli women\n>\; The response of the international co mmunity with particular attention to the growing visibility and impact of the global movement of Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions (BDS)\, on one hand\, and efforts to hold Israeli officials accountable and investigate possible violations of human rights and international conventions.\n>\; Prospects for a just and lasting peace in the region in the aftermath of t he Israeli war on Gaza and the earlier repressive campaign in the West Ban k.\n\nSpeakers:\nDR RABAB ABDULHADI is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studi es/Race and Resistance Studies and the Senior Scholar of the Arab and Musl im Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative\, at the College of Ethnic Studies \, San Francisco State University. Before joining SFSU\, she served as the first director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan\, Dearborn. She received her BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Special H onors Curriculum\, Sociology and Women’s Studies from Hunter College in New York and her MA\, MPhil and PhD from Yale University.\nA co-founder an d Editorial Board member of the Islamophobia Studies Journal\, she co-auth ored Mobilizing Democracy: Changing US Policy in the Middle East\, and co- editor Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender\, Violence and Belonging\, winner of the 2012 Evelyn Shakir National Arab American non-fiction Book Award\, and a special issue of MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studi es special issue on gender\, nation and belonging (2005).Her work has appe ared in Al-Shabaka\; Gender and Society\; Radical History Review\; Peace R eview\; Journal of Women's History\; Taiba: Women and Cultural Discourses\ ; Cuadernos Metodologicos: Estudio de Casos\; This Bridge We Call Home\; N ew World Coming: The 1960s and the Shaping of Global Consciousness\; Local Actions: Cultural Activism\, Power and Public Life in America\; The Guard ian\, Al-Fajr\; Womanews\; Palestine Focus\; Voice of Palestinian Women\; and several Arabic language publications\, such as Falasteen Al-Thahwra\; Al-Hadaf\; and Al-Hurriyah.\nAbdulhadi taught at eight transnational sites of higher education including the American University in Cairo\, Egypt\, and Birzeit University in Palestine. The recipient of several honors and a wards (including the New Century Scholarship\, Sterling Fellowship\, Phi B eta Kappa\, and teaching excellence awards from Yale University and AUC)\, she serves on the Board of Policy Advisors of the Palestinian Think Tank\ , Al-Shabaka and the International Advisory Board of the World Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES). As a scholar/activist committed to justice- centered scholarship and pedagogy\, she co-founded the Union of Palestinia n Women’s Associations in North America (UPWA)\, the Palestine Solidarit y Committee (PSC)\, California Scholars for Academic Freedom and the US Ca mpaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). She co-or ganized and led several delegations to Palestine made up of Indigenous sch olars and scholars of color and has participated in academic\, intellectua l and public sites in the Global South and North\, including World Social Forum in India\, Brazil\, Kenya\, Senegal\, and Tunisia.\n\nDR SIMONA SHAR ONI is a feminist scholar\, researcher and activist. She is Professor of G ender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York in Plattsb urgh. Sharoni holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Georg e Mason University and MA and BA degrees in Counseling and Special Educati on from Haifa University\, Israel. Prior to joining SUNY Plattsburgh\, she taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington and at Americ an University in Washington DC. She also held semester long distinguished scholar appointments at the University of Oregon and the University of Cin cinnati.\nSharoni’s research and writing have included a comparative ana lysis of gender dynamics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in the No rth of Ireland as well as a critical examination of militarization and mas culinities and especially the interplay between political violence and gen der-based violence. She is the author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinia n Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance and more than 50 refereed a rticles and book chapters. numerous other publications. She is currently c ompleting a manuscript titled Gender\, Resistance and the Israeli-Palestin ian Conflict (1994-2014). Another work in progress involves a textbook tit led: Sexuality\, Power\, and Relationships\, designed to address gender-ba sed violence on college campuses.\nA former co-chair of the Board of Direc tors of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) and its founding Executive Director\, Sharoni has played a key role in advocating for the c entrality of feminist\nperspectives to peacebuilding and conflict resoluti on. Sharoni is also a founding member of the Feminist Theory and Gender St udies Section (FTGS) at the International Studies Association (ISA)\, a co -editor of a book series Gender\, Culture and Politics in the Middle East that has been in existence for over two decades and a member of the Editor ial Board of the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP). Recent ly she was the co-founder of Faculty Against Rape (FAR)\, a newly founded national organization advocating for an increased role of faculty in the s truggle to confront sexual assault on college campuses.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/02/11008067_803264623056440_1679866010734019858_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture,Advocacy,Student Group LOCATION:CUNY School of Law\, 2 Court Square\, Long Island City\, Queens\, New York\, United States GEO:40.7478972;-73.94396649999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2 Court Square\, Long Islan d City\, Queens\, New York\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=CUNY School of Law:geo:40.7478972,-73.94396649999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR