[Peace] Fwd: International Symposium, "Family, Gender and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia" Oct. 7-9

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:29:04 -0500
>To: african at uiuc.edu
>From: African Studies <jmcgowan at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: International Symposium, "Family, Gender and Law in a
>   Globalizing Middle East and South Asia" Oct. 7-9
>
>During October 7-9, 2004, the University of Illinois' Programs in South
>Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Women and Gender in Global
>Perspectives will sponsor an international symposium, "Family, Gender
>and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia."
>
>Suad Joseph's keynote Millercomm lecture "Family, Gender and State in
>the Middle East and South Asia" will open the symposium on Thursday Oct.
>7, at 7:30 p.m., 3d floor, Levis Faculty Center. On Friday and Saturday,
>Oct. 8-9, panelists will present papers on Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
>Egypt, the Emirates, India, Iraq, Israel, Jordan and Palestine, Morocco,
>Pakistan, and Turkey.
>
>Nearly every state in the Middle East and South Asia has joined the
>Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against
>Women (CEDAW, 1979), but with reservations, especially when CEDAW's
>standard of equality conflicts with the norms of one or more of the
>states' religious communities. The symposium will examine and compare
>two regions that have in common multi-ethnic and -religious states;
>family law shaped by religion; and ambivalence toward the western family
>ideal expressed in nativist and/or religious valorization of difference.
>The debates and struggles in both regions are about "family," but
>women's bodies and gender roles are often the sites of conflict, and the
>goal is to shape law. Rather than comparing "traditional" family forms
>and norms with an ideal modern counterpart the symposium will examine
>changes in the family and debates about it within a South Asia/Middle
>East comparative framework. In an age of globalization the ideal western
>family is always in some sense "present" in the media, government
>programs, and so on, but a "south-south" comparison de-centers that
>ideal as normative.
>
>Participants: Flavia Agnes, Family Court, Mumbai; Zehra Arat, SUNY;
>Marilyn Booth, UIUC; Juan Cole, University of Michigan; Ken Cuno, UIUC;
>Manisha Desai, UIUC; Shelley Feldman, Cornell University; Tom Ginsburg,
>UIUC; Frances Hasso, Oberlin College; Homa Hoodfar, Concordia
>University; Winnifred Poster, UIUC; Frances Raday, Hebrew University of
>Jerusalem; Zakia Salime, UIUC; Gail Summerfield, UIUC; Anita Weiss,
>University of Oregon; Lynn Welchman, SOAS, University of London.
>
>The symposium is free and open to the public. For the detailed program
>go to http://www2.uiuc.edu/unit/psames/events/FGLSymposium.htm or
>contact Ken Cuno kmcuno at uiuc.edu.
>
>Kenneth M. Cuno, Director
>Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>220 International Studies Building
>910 South Fifth Street
>Champaign, IL 61820
>
>Tel. 217 244-7331
>Fax 217 265-6399
>Email kmcuno at uiuc.edu
>URL http://www.uiuc.edu/providers/psames/
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>forwarded by:    The Center for African Studies,
>                           University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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Al Kagan
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University of Illinois Library
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