Session 3: 9:00 – 10:45

Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

"Gendered Vulnerability and Forced Conscription in the War in Syria"

Moderator: Anahid Matossian, Department of Anthropology

Discussants: Diane King and Kristin Monroe, Department of Anthropology

Session 4: 11:00 – 12:30

Concluding Forum and Discussion

Moderator: Srimati Basu, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

Session 1: 3:30 – 5:15

Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University

"The Capitalist-Rescue Narrative and the War on Terror"

Moderator:  Amy Murrell Taylor, Department of History

Discussant, Francie Chassen-Lopez, Department of History

 

Session 2:  5:30- 7:15

Sue Grayzel, Professor of History and Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi

 "All are Now in the Line of Fire:" Gender and the Defence of Civilian Bodies in the Interwar British Empire

Moderator: Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Department of Hispanic Studies

Discussant: Pearl James, Department of English

WHAT: History Guest Speaker - "Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy

WHO: Andrew Preston, Senior Lecturer in American History, Clare College, Cambridge University

WHERE: Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library

WHEN: Monday, March 26, 3:30p.m.