Fulbright Gender Studies Network

Please join the Institute of Latin American Studies’ Ruth Cardoso Chair, Miriam Pillar Grossi, as she moderates a panel of academics, writers, and activists to discuss gender today.

Presenters:

Laila Rizk (Ain Shams University, Egypt)

Title: Women’s Activism in Egypt

Suzana Maia (Federal University of the Recôncavo Bahiano – UFRB, Brazil)

Title: Black Women/White Women: the possibilities and limits of alliances in Brazil 

Sharmila Purkayastha (Delhi University, India)

Rethinking Women’s History: A Few Thoughts on Prison Writings from India and Latin America

Qinghong Xu (Anhui University, China)

The Impact of the Western Radical Feminist Writings on Chinese Academic/Feminist Thought and Women Writers

Moderator: Miriam Pillar Grossi (Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil and Ruth Cardoso Chair, ILAS, Columbia University)