BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2814-f6ba144739c042a43f94174a1eeb1e06@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T205859Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T090000 SUMMARY:AFI Feminist Book Talk: “The Future is Feminist” DESCRIPTION:\nAFI Feminist Book Talk: \;The Future is Feminist with author Sara Rahnama in conversation with Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué \;\n\nThe Future Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a p ivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian pe ople focused outward to developments in the Middle East\, looking critic ally at their own society and with new eyes to Islamic tradition. In doi ng so\, they reordered the world on their own terms&mdash\;pushing back against French colonial claims about Islam&rsquo\;s inherent misogyny.\n \nSara Rahnama is an assistant professor of history at Morgan State Univ ersity and the author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Her writing has appeared in both academic and popu lar spaces\, including Gender &\; History\, The Washington Post\, and The Conversation. She was formerly a Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.\n\nJacqueline-Bethel Mougoué\; is ass ociate professor of African cultural studies at the University of Wiscon sin&ndash\;Madison with additional affiliations in the Department of His tory and the Department of Gender &\; Women&rsquo\;s Studies. Mougou& eacute\; is a trained historian\, focusing on women&rsquo\;s and gender history in mid-twentieth century West Africa. She is the author of Gende r\, Separatist Politics\, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (2019).\n \nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afi-book-talk_011624 / X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

AFI Feminist Book Talk: The Future is Feminist with author Sara Rahnama in conversation with Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué

The F uture Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path o ut of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian people fo cused outward to developments in the Middle East, looking critically at their own society and with new eyes to Islamic tradition. In doing so, t hey reordered the world on their own terms—pushing back against Fr ench colonial claims about Islam’s inherent misogyny.

Sar a Rahnama is an assistant professor of history at Morgan State Unive rsity and the author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Chan ge in Interwar Algeria. Her writing has appeared in both academic an d popular spaces, including Gender & History, The Washingt on Post, and The Conversation. She was formerly a Fellow at t he John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Jacqueline- Bethel Mougoué is associate professor of African cultural stu dies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with additional affili ations in the Department of History and the Department of Gender & W omen’s Studies. Mougoué is a trained historian, focusing on women’s and gender history in mid-twentieth century West Africa. She is the author of Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nation alism in Cameroon (2019).

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ event/afi-book-talk_011624/

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