Tuesday, September 8, 2015 6:00 PM EDT
Merten Hall, 1202
Sherene Seikaly studies the gendered experiences and representations of the Arab body to reveal the stakes of state violence and revolutionary change. She explores how people like Muhamad Bouazizi and Samira Ibrahim mobilized their bodies as sites of revolutionary possibility, detailing both the lost histories of state gendered violence as well as the many attempts to confront and resist it.
