Join
the
Department
of
Anthropology for
the
2017 Silver
Medal
Award Guest
Lecture.
Professor Homa
Hoodfar will
speak about academic
freedom
based
on
her
experience
in
Evin
Prison,
where
she
was
imprisoned
while
on
a
personal
and
research
visit
to
Iran
in
2016.
Homa
Hoodfar is
a
Canadian-Iranian
sociocultural
anthropologist
and
professor
emerita
of
anthropology
at
Concordia
University
in
Montreal.
Prof.
Hoodfar
is
widely
known
for
her
work
on
gender
and
development
in
Islam,
Western
perceptions
of
the
veil, and women's
participation
in
public
life,
the
labor
force,
and
electoral,
legal,
and
social
politics in
Middle
Eastern
societies.
She
is
the
author
of
the
award-winning
ethnography, Between
Marriage
and
the
Market:
Intimate
Politics
and
Survival
in
Cairo from
University
of
California
Press
(1998)
and
has
edited
and
co-edited
numerous
books
including Electoral
Politics:
Making
Quotas
Work
For
Women (2011)
and Women’s
Sport
as
Politics
in
Muslim
Contexts (2015).
All
Welcome!
