New York University’s Center for Media, Culture, and History will host “Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War on Terror,” a public lecture by Saba Mahmood, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information about the event, which is free and open to the public, call 212.998.3759.
New York University’s Center for Media, Culture, and History will host “Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War on Terror,” a public lecture by Saba Mahmood, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It will be held on Thurs., Feb. 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East and Washington Place). Subway lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place). For more information about the event, which is free and open to the public, call 212.998.3759.
In secular feminist discourse, religious traditions have been treated with skepticism and even hostility. Moreover, testimonials of Muslim women immigrants suggest that Islam is culpable for the mistreatment of women. This lecture explores the problem in the context of the U.S. and European war on terror. Mahmood’s most recent work, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton, 2005), is about grassroots women’s movements in Cairo mosques.
The event is co-sponsored by NYU’s departments of Anthropology, Cinema Studies, and Religious Studies.