International Women's Day

International Women's Day (IWD) is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential.

Upcoming event:

"We're all Accidental Americans: Gender,
Immigration, and Citizenship"
Thursday, March 8, 2012
7:00pm, Pearson 104
Speaker: Rinku Sen, Author and Activist

A leading figure in the racial justice movement, Rinku Sen has positioned ARC as a national home for media, research and activism on these issues. Over the course of her career, she has combined journalism and activism to make social change. Rinku is the author of Stir It Up, a primer on best practices in community organizing, and The Accidental American, a book about Moroccan immigrant Fekkak Mamdouh, who co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York in the aftermath of September 11.

This program is funded through the AS&E Diversity Fund and co-sponsored by American Studies, Asian American Studies, History Department, Office of Intercultural and Social Identities Program, Peace and Justice Studies, Political Science Department, Women's Center, Women's Studies, and Sociology Department.

Past event:

Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, held March 3, 2009 at Sophia Gordon.

A viewing of the film "Be Like Others" followed by a discussion led by Harvard University Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi

Whether we are talking about Iran, the United States, or anywhere else in the world, at the heart of conversations and debates about transgendered lives are each culture's institutionalized ideas about women and men, gender and sexuality, and the imagined risk of transgendered lives disrupting patriarchal, binary order. This is not just an issue that impacts Women's and LGBT movements, but one that is connected to all of our gendered experiences. Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of

"Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity" and the forthcoming book, "Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran." Sponsored by: The Women's Center, Women's Studies, International Center, LGBT Center, and the AS&E Diversity Fund.

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