The Second Feminist Armenian Studies Workshop – Gendering Resistance and Revolution
Department: Global Middle East Studies
Date and Time: May 4, 2019 - May 5, 2019 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PMEvent Location: UCI Humanities Instructional Building 110, University of California, Irvine
Event Details
The Second Feminist Armenian Studies Workshop
Gendering Resistance and Revolution
Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, 2019
UCI Humanities Instructional Building 110, University of California, Irvine
The two-day interdisciplinary workshop/conference – free and open to the public – will feature fifteen participants, four panels, a roundtable, and a public discussion organized by FemARC (Feminist Armenian Research Collective). Speakers and roundtable participants will focus on resistance and revolution from gender-centered perspectives.
What constitutes activism, resistance, and/or revolution through various modalities? How is resistance gendered? How
does resistance by gender-conforming and gender-non-conforming individuals or collectives challenge hegemonic and dominant analytical paradigms? Through an engagement with
varied methodologies and approaches, participants will rethink and reframe women’s activism, (in)visibility, (re)presentation, resistance and revolution in the multilocal Armenian experience from the nineteenth century through the Velvet revolution to today.
ORGANIZERS
Dr. Houri Berberian, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Melissa Bilal, American University of Armenia
Dr. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sponsors:
Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies
Vahe and Armine Meghrouni Lecture Series
Co-sponsors:
Department of History
Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA)
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Topics