Writing as Witnessing: Reimagining Displaced Muslim Women's Lifeworlds Through Archival Marginalia
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Online Event
10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
10:30 am New York l 4:30 pm Vienna10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The OSUN project on Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice at Bard College Berlin welcomes all OSUN members to a discussion with Shenila Khoja-Moolji, who will share a chapter from her forthcoming book relating how Shia Ismaili Muslim women recreated community in the aftermath of multiple displacements over the course of the twentieth century. This chapter, in particular, considers cookbooks written by three displaced women to uncover how they engage in memory work and placemaking in the diaspora through the sharing and modification of Ismaili food cultures. The chapter provides an opportunity to reflect on women’s labor in faith communities as well as the lifeworlds of refugees.
Dr. Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of gender and Islamic studies. Her research interests include, Muslim girlhood(s), masculinities and sovereignty, and Ismaili Muslim women's history.
This talk is part of a lecture series jointly curated by faculty involved in Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, a new project that offers a sustainable platform for students and professors from OSUN colleges to engage in rigorous academic work, express themselves freely, inspire each other through art, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice.
Register via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/85753507479?pwd=ZHlsNWRpYzZ6UFRuRThaZGpTWDJOUT09.
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Online Event