Interesting events to attend

Just relaying this announcement from the department of anthropology:

Dear Colleagues: I would like to ask you to encourage your students to come to two events taking place this week. Both of these events are significant as they are meant to inform the students about contemporary lives of Muslims in different parts of the world; political and social activism by Muslim women and men; and struggle with contemporary critical issues, indeed global in their scope, such as economic depression and political oppression and violence.

The first event is a documentary “Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think” truly lives up to its title. It is a 50 min. intense and interesting film based on in-depth research carried out by the Gallup Poll. The documentary will be screened on Tuesday, March 23d at 12:40 pm (MUB 332). This event is envisioned as an opening part of the 2010 Holden Lecture, which will be given by a famous scholar of gender, politics and Islam, Dr. Margot Badran.

Dr. Badran’s lecture “Islamic Feminism Today,” is 2010 Holden Lecture sponsored by John T. Holden Memorial Fund in the COLA, the Department of Anthropology and Center for the Humanities. It will take place on Thursday, March 25th at 12:40 pm (MUB 334/336).

Please, join us at these events.

Svetlana Peshkova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of New Hampshire