Friday, January 20th, 2012 Gender, Sexuality and Islam under the Shadow of Empire

DateTimeLocation
Friday, January 20, 201212:00PM - 2:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Saadia Toor is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. A native of Lahore, she has been active in feminist and Left political circles in Pakistan. Her scholarship revolves around issues of culture, nationalism, gender/sexuality, state formation, international political economy and the relationships between them. Her book The State of Islam? Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan was recently published by Pluto Press.


Speakers

Ritu Birla
Co-Chair
Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto

Alyssa Trotz
Co-Chair
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

Saadia Toor
Speaker
Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York


Co-Sponsors

Centre for South Asian Studies

Asian Institute

Women and Gender Studies Institute

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