April 2nd and 3rd: Symposium on Violent Contradictions and Feminist Responsesto the War on Gaza

A Women and Gender Studies Institute event at the University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by Faculty4Palestine

Violent Contradictions and Feminist Responses to the War on Gaza, April 2 & 3, 2009.

Program for Symposium:

Thursday April 2, 2009

5 -7pm Reception featuring artist talks and video installations
by b.h. Yael and Vicky Moufawad-Paul.

7-8:30. Keynote: The Political Absurd: The War on Terror in 'Post-Racial' America, Jasbir Puar, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutger's University.

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Friday April 3rd, 2009

1-2:30 pm Local Panel: Reflections on Violent Contradictions
Abbie Bakan (Queen's University)
Shahrzad Mojab (OISE, University of Toronto)
Dana Olwan (Queen's University)
b.h. Yael (OCAD)

2:30 - 3pm Poetry reading by Trish Salah

3 - 3:30pm Coffee break

3:30 - 5pm Closing Plenary. Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators, Yosefa Loshitzky, Professor of Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, University of East London.

For full details, please visit the symposium website
http://www.utoronto.ca/wgsi/vcwg