{"243331":{"#nid":"243331","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Women in the Middle East and South Asia, sponsored by WST and HTS for WAM","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPANEL DISCUSSION: WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeepika Bahri\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eis Associate Professor in the English department at Emory University. Her research focuses on postcolonial literature, culture, and theory. She is the author of \u003Cem\u003ENative Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature\u003C\/em\u003E (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and co-editor of \u003Cem\u003EBetween the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality and Realms of Rhetoric\u003C\/em\u003E. She has written several articles on postcolonial issues in journals and book collections. She is currently working on the representation of Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, and racial hybrids in postcolonial literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELaura Bier\u003C\/strong\u003E is currently Associate Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech. She is a social and cultural historian with a specialty in post-colonial Egyptian history.\u0026nbsp; She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. Her work has appeared in the journals Feminist Studies and Gender and History and in edited collections on the family in the Middle East and on the Bandung Conference. Her book \u003Cem\u003ERevolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser\u0027s Egypt\u003C\/em\u003E was published by Stanford University Press in 2011.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMoon Charania\u003C\/strong\u003E is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at Georgia State University. She comes to Georgia State following a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tulane University in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Her current and previous scholarship cuts across disciplines and includes sociology, cultural studies, women\u2019s studies, and transnational studies. She would like to speak about Pakistani women and global visual culture.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) and the School of History, Technology, and Society sponsor this panel as part of Women\u0027s Awareness Month, an initiative coordinated by the Georgia Tech Women\u0027s Resource Center. Three distinguished speakers will present short talks about women in the Middle East and South Asia. The panel discussion\u0026nbsp;will be preceded by a reception and\u0026nbsp;followed by discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This panel discussion will include three distinguished speakers discussing women in the Middle East and South Asia."}],"uid":"27680","created_gmt":"2013-10-08 10:19:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:05:06","author":"Carol Colatrella","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-03-07T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-03-07T15:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-03-07T15:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-03-07 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-03-07 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-03-07 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"132371","name":"The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1188","name":"International Affairs"},{"id":"4062","name":"Middle East"},{"id":"167848","name":"south asia"},{"id":"973","name":"women"},{"id":"8530","name":"WST lecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarol Colatrella \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecarol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}