Seminar Series Gender and Women's Status in the Palestinian Society
Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research – is organizing a seminar series focusing on a variety of issues dealing with gender and women's status in the Palestinian society.
The seminar commences at the end of June and will consist of ten meetings. Topics to be discussed include: Patriarchal Culture and Gender Relations; Feminism and Nationalism; The ties between the Authority and the Patriarchy; Feminist Methods and Approaches; Masculinity and Sexuality; Women and Art and many more.
The meetings will be held once a month at Mada's office located at 51 Allenby St. in Haifa. The project is co-ordinated by Manar Hasan.
First Meeting:
"Patriarchal Society and Women- Death as a Cultural Issue"
By: Dr. Hunaida Ghanim The Hebrew University
date: June 29th 2005
Second Meeting:
"Contradictory Locations: A Complex View of the Palestinian Women in Israel"
By: Dr. Amalia Saar, University of Haifa
date: July 28th 2005
Third Meeting:
A Century and More of Feminists in the Arab and Muslim World
By: Taghreed Yehia-younis
date: August 25th 2005
Fourth Meeting:
Studying Feminist Issues: The standpoint of the "oppressed"
By: Dr. Orly Benjamin, Bar-Ilan University
date: September 29th 2005
Fifth Meeting:
Masculine Improvisations: Contrapuntal/Class reading(s) of states of oppression"
By: Dr. Ismael An-nashef, Bir-Zeit University
date: November 17th 2005
sixth Meeting:
Studying Feminist Issues: The standpoint of the "oppressed"
By: Dr. Khawla abu-Baker,Emek Yezreel College
date: december 15th 2005
seventh Meeting: "The Weaponization of the Palestinian Women's Bodies and Lives: A Feminist Genealogical Analysis"
By: Dr. Nedera Shalhoub-Kevorkian - Hebrew University, Jerusalem
date: January 26th 2006