ArabAmCC – International Women’s Day Symposium, Day 1
March 4, 2019
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location
Latino Cultural Center - Lecture Center B2
Address
Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free
Calendar
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March 4, 2019 11 - 4pm
11 - 4pm - Take a Picture! All day photo booth. Location: Arab American Cultural Center.
12 - 2pm - Panel: Activism, Social Movements, and Resistance. Location: LCC Gallery. Migrant Women in Early Arab Amairka: Sarah Gualtieri, UCSC. Between the waves: US and Pakistani Women's Activism in the Early Cold War Period: Elora Shehabuddin, Rice Univ. The Politics of Intersectionality and Visibility and Generational Shifts in the Sexual Rights Movements in MENA: Zeina Zaatari, UIC Moderator: Zeina Zaartri, ArabAmCC Director
2:10 - 3pm or 3:10 - 4pm - Yoga by Jessica Young (Space is limited. First Come, First Serve). Location: ArabAmCC
March 5, 2019 2 - 7pm
Location: Arab American Cultural Center (111 Stevenson Hall)
2 - 7pm - Take a Picture! - All day Photo booth
2 - 3:30 - Screening: Queerness: Visual Representation, Identities, Challenges, and Strategies of Resistance?
3:30 - 5pm - Panel: The Personal is Still Political. Immigration, Sexuality, and Arab Women: Implications for Sexual Health: Sarah Abboud, UIC. Kristina's Room: Afterlives ofDisplacement: Alize Arican, UIC. Writing as Activism in Lebanese Feminist History: Lessons from Rose Ghurayyib's Editorials: Nicole Khoury, UIC. The Muslim Ban is a Feminist and Queer Concern: Ending anti-Muslim Racism from a Gender Justice Standpoint: Nadine Naber, UIC. Moderator: Natalie Bennett, WLRC
5:30 - 7:30 Roundtable: Gender Justice and Racial justice: Putting Words into Practice with ChicagoLand Movements. Sangi Ravichandran, UIC Policing in Chicago Research Group. Gonul Duzer, Kirdish Diaspora Movement. Aislinn Pulley, Black Lives Matter. Santera Michels, First Nation. Sierra Council, Black Youth Project100. ModeratorL Nesreen Hassan, ArabAmCC Asst. Director.
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This event is open & free to public. Event spaces are accessible by wheelchair. For further accommodations, please email arabamcc@uic.edu
Event organized by Arab American Cultural Center. Co-Sponsored by UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center, UIC Anthropology, UIC Gender and Women Studies.
Date posted
Feb 14, 2019
Date updated
Feb 14, 2019