On April 4, 2024, the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program with the Gender & Women's Studies Department hosted a panel “Artivisms & Media” as a part of the Conference on "Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s).
The conference was organized by graduate students from WGGP and GWS: Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez (Sociology), Nehal Elmeligy (Sociology), Marina Moscoso-Arabía (Geography), and Mahbubeh Moqadam (Sociology).
The panel was moderated by Mahbubeh Moqadam, Department of Sociology
Panelists:
Rasha Azab (she/her), Writer/Script-writer and journalist (freelancing). “Modern Forms of Violence Against Women in Egypt”
Christine Choy (she/her), Full Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. “Dare to Challenge: A talk with Christine Choy, Pioneer of Asian American Filmmaking”
Nehal Elmeligy (she/her), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Re-Mapping #MeToo’s Global Timeline: Orientalist Discursive Violence and #MeToo in Egypt”
Maryam Kashani (she/her), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Mobile Responsibilities: Care-full Strategies of Palestinian Solidarity and Image-Making”
The conference was co-sponsored by:
Center for African Studies
Center for Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Humanities Research Institute
Illinois Global Institute
Illinois International Programs
School of Social Work
Women’s Resources Center
This event was supported in part by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI grant program. The content of this event does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.