Special lecture by Dr. Homa Hoodfar of Concordia University

[Stacy Reda]

Dear Colleagues,

Join the Department of Anthropology for the 2017 Silver Medal Award<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/undergraduate/awards> Guest Lecture. Our guest lecturer, Prof. Homa Hoodfar, will be speaking on academic freedom based on her experience in Evin Prison, where she was imprisoned while on a personal and research visit to Iran in 2016.



[cid:image002.jpg at 01D2934F.F1DAE640]About the speaker:

Homa Hoodfar is a Canadian-Iranian sociocultural anthropologist and professor emerita of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Prof. Hoodfar is widely known for her work on gender and development in Islam, Western perceptions of the veil, and women's participation in public life, labor force, and electoral, legal, and social politics in Middle Eastern societies. She is the author of the award-winning ethnography, Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo from University of California Press (1998) and has edited and co-edited numerous books including Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work For Women (2011) and Women's Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts (2015).

Details:

Wednesday, March 15th, 2017

5:00-6:50PM

STC 0020



See our event webpage<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/silver-medal-homa-hoodfar> for additional information.

All Welcome! No registration.

We hope to see you there!

Robert W. Park, PhD
Associate Dean of Arts (Infrastructure and Technology)<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/about/people> and Professor and Acting Chair, Anthropology<http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/park.html>
PAS 2016; Extension 35016 or 226-339-9002 (cell)


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Stacy Reda, MA (on behalf of Dr. Robert Park)
Department Administrative Assistant and
Undergraduate & Graduate Coordinator
Department of Anthropology (PAS 2012)
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo,  ON  N2L 3G1
(519) 888-4567 ext. 32520

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