Patterns of Resistance in China and Iran, a WGSS Speaker Series Celebrating International Women's Day, March 8
MARCH 8, 2023
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
“I am not free while any woman is unfree,
even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Audre Lorde
"STANDING TOGETHER:
PATTERNS OF RESISTANCE IN CHINA AND IRAN"
Panelists:
LING MA, SUNY Geneseo, Department of History
SHAHIN MONSHIPOUR, International Culture and Art Network, Founder
Dr. Ling Ma is an assistant professor of history and a historian of modern China and transnational Asia. She obtained an MA at Peking University and a Ph.D. at the University of Buffalo. She has been part of the Geneseo faculty since 208. Before joining Geneseo, she taught at SUNY at Buffalo and Washington State University. Her research interests include modern China; women, gender, and reproduction; law, medicine, and crime; material culture and everyday life.
Shahin Monshipour is an Iranian-American alumna of RIT (MBA 1981). She has worked as employment advisor and visiting instructor of Economics at NTID and at RIT. She has earned a M.A. in anthropology from the University of Rochester and has forty years of teaching experience in academia in and around the Rochester area. She has given numerous presentations and workshops on various campuses in the US and is the founder of the non-profit organization International Culture and Art Network. She has published poems, translations, and articles in Farsi and in English both in the United States and in Iran.
A half-hour Meet & Greet opportunity will follow the presentations.
The event is organized by the CLA Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, AdvanceRIT, the President's Commission on Women, the Title IX Office, and Campus Life - Women and Gender.
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Open to the Public
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