UICs Gender & Womens Studies Program presents its 2013-4 Lecture Series Gender and Security Otherwise? Prisons, War and Humanitarianism in Global Contexts Amal Hassan Fadlalla *Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan* Clooneyal’ Visibilities: Humanitarianism, Gender, and the Fragmentation of the Sudan Thursday, November 21, 5-6:30 pm African American Cultural Center Dr. Fadlallas lecture will focus on George Clooney’s activism for Sudan and examine how the intersection of human rights and humanitarian politics construct a grand narrative of rescue and salvation that trumps Sudanese activists’ questions of unity, sovereignty, and inclusive citizenship. As such, African subjects and their political affairs are relegated to the affective realm of humanitarianism which undermine local histories, gender, and socio-economic struggles. This lecture is co-sponsored by International Studies, and the Departments of Anthropology and African American Studies. For more information, contact Natalie Bennett, [email protected]. ===================================== About Amal Hassan Fadlalla: Amal Hassan Fadlalla is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, where she is completing a book manuscript on Sudanese diaspora activism. In 2012 she was named a Human Rights Fellow by the Center for International Comparative Studies (CICS). Amal Fadlalla is the author of Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (Madison: the University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). Her recent publications appear in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 37, No. 1, 2011; Urban Anthropology, volume 38 (1), 2009; and in the School for Advanced Research edited volume New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America 2008. She is also the coeditor of the book Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa (Routledge 2012).
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