Research on the Middle East in the current US political climate
Welcome to a seminar with Dr. Nadine Naber, Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program, the Global Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, SAIH and Bergen Global (CMI/UiB) welcome everyone who's interested to this seminar with Dr. Nadine Naber.
Naber does research on topics such as Arab-American feminism and genocide. We have invited her to speak about her research on the Middle East and what it is like to conduct this type of research in today's political climate in the USA. Dr. Naber has been invited to Norway as a speaker at SAIH's conference Universities as sites of resistance and social justice in Oslo 24 April.
Anne K. Bang, Professor at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR) will introduce Dr. Naber, and after Naber's presentation, the floor will be open for questions from the audience.
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About Nadine Naber
Dr. Nadine Naber is a Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program, the Global Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.
At UIC, she is the Co-PI of the Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster and Co-Organizer of the Global Middle East Studies Working Group. She is author/co-editor of five books, including Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012); Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008) and Arab and Arab American Feminisms (Syracuse University Press, 2010).
Dr. Naber is the co-founder of Arab and Muslim American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was the faculty founder/former director of the Arab American Cultural Center at UIC.
She is currently writing the book "Pedagogies of the Radical Mother" and a book entitled "Social Movement Led Research Methodologies". She serves on the boards of organizations such as the Arab American Action Network, Al-Shabakah, the National Council for Arab Americans, and the Feminist Peace Initiative; and has been a columnist for news outlets such as the Chicago Reporter and regularly publishes OpEds.
