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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150410T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150411T170000
DTSTAMP:20150128T232847Z
URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/sexualities-queer-imaginaries-midd
 le-east/
SUMMARY:“Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East\,”
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Middle East Studies and co-sponsored by Middle Eas
 t Studies\, Open Society Foundations\, Brown University’s Gender and Se
 xuality Studies\, Brown’s Pembroke Center\, Brown’s LGBTQ Center\, Bro
 wn’s Sarah Doyle Women’s Center  and the Watson Institute for Interna
 tional Studies at Brown.\n\nBrown University’s Middle East Studies will 
 be hosting the third annual “Engaged Scholarship” conference on April 
 10-11\, 2015\, with the theme of “Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in t
 he Middle East.” The 2014 theme was “Embedded! Archeologists and Anth
 ropologists in Modern Landscapes of Conflict” and the 2013 theme was 
 “The Politics and Ethics of Knowledge Production.”\n\nThe​ primary o
 bjective is to bring together a diverse group of experts from the Middle E
 ast and around the world (academics\, journalists\, activists\, human righ
 ts advocates\, filmmakers\, novelists\, faith-based leaders\, and others) 
 who have contributed to either the representations of or on-the-ground dev
 elopment of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) movements in th
 e Middle East.\n\nTo our knowledge\, this is the first of such gatherings 
 to take place\, connecting academics and practitioners between those based
  in North America\, Europe\, and those in the Middle East. The four centra
 l questions animating the conference will be as follows:\n• What is the 
 ethical role that academics of queer social movements in the Middle East c
 an play in supporting rather than undermining their development?\n• How 
 does that role differ from those contributing to these movements through g
 rassroots activism\, civil society engagement\, contestation with the stat
 e\, advocacy within national\, regional\, and international institutions\,
  and those approaching queer representation within the arts sphere?\n• H
 ow can we characterize the past\, present\, and future trajectories of var
 ious queer movements in the Middle East/North Africa region?\n• How can 
 we bridge the binaries between East and West as well as the binaries betwe
 en movements in the “social” realm and those in the “political” re
 alm?\n
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LOCATION:Joukowsky Forum\, Watson Institute\, 111 Thayer St\, Providence\, 
 RI\, 02906\, United States
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