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Inaugural Symposium: The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society
September 8, 2012 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2pm-4pm
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society
in the Middle East Diaspora: Symposium and Reception
September 9, 2012, 2 – 4pm
Scott Lecture Hall, Rutgers University
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, is a region-wide, multi-dimensional project focusing on contemporary women artists, writers, filmmakers, composers, and performers from the Middle East and Middle East diaspora, who explore matters of gender, homeland, geopolitics, theology, the environment, and transnationalism. The project and five-site exhibition were conceived, curated, and produced by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, co-directors of the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers University.
Moderator:
Alison Bernstein, Director Institute for Women’s Leadership, Rutgers University
Speakers:
Negar Ahkami (artist)
Margot Badran (Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars)
Zeina Barakeh (artist)
Kelly Baum (Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Ayana Friedman (artist)
Fakhri Haghani (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers)
FatimahTuggar(artist)
43 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
Entrance on the green, to the side of the Zimmerli