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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELED<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Amberly Steward
[mailto:asteward@mit.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 11, 2011 10:17
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'hasts-fac@mit.edu'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> March 17, 6PM - Minarets
After Marx: Gender, Islam and the Headscarf Debate in Postsocialist <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>==============================================================</span></font></b></span><b><span
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>MIT Anthropology Presents:</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Minarets After Marx: Gender, Islam
and the </span></font></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><font size=4
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Headscarf Debate in Postsocialist <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>A presentation by</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Kristen Ghodsee</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Professor of Gender and Women's
Studies – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bowdoin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Thursday, March 17</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>6:00 PM</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Rm. 16-220</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>==============================================================</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Description</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Gender equality was one of the core ideological tenets of 20th century
communist regimes in <st1:place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</st1:place>. The
hyper-modernist formula for a functioning proletarian democracy included rapid
industrialization, which required the full integration of women into the formal
labor force. In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
the so-called emancipation of Muslim women was a particularly urgent goal and a
litmus test for the triumph of scientific socialism over what was considered
the feudal backwardness of Islam. For over four decades, all of the coercive
powers of the centralized state were funneled into suppressing local Islamic
traditions and radically reimagining gender norms among the country’s
Muslim minority. After the collapse of communism in 1989, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s Muslims were free
to embrace their religious and ethnic identities, but found their communities
bitterly divided with regard to any potential Islamic revival. There were those
who maintained allegiance to the secular communist project, those who wished to
revive local Muslim traditions from before the communist era, and those who
chose to embrace a new form of universalist ‘orthodox’ Islam being
imported into the Balkans through the work of international Islamic charities.
Many of these debates revolve around the re-inscription of more conservative
gender roles for women, and an ongoing debate over the Islamic headscarf has
become a potent symbol of this conflict. This talk examines the local meanings
of the headscarf as a political and religious symbol and the complicated array
of factors informing the selective embrace of ‘orthodox’ Islam in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></st1:place>
today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Biography</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kristen
Ghodsee</span></font></b> is the John S. Osterweis Associate Professor in
Gender and Women’s Studies at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bowdoin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. She is the
author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Red <st1:State w:st="on">Riviera</st1:State>:
Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea</span></i> (Duke
University Press, 2005), <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Muslim Lives
in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in
Postsocialist <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region></span></i> (Princeton
University Press 2009), and numerous articles on gender, civil society, and
Islam in <st1:place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</st1:place>. She is the
winner of national fellowships from NSF, Fulbright, NCEEER, IREX and ACLS as
well as the recipient of residential research fellowships at the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Woodrow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wilson</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
for Scholars, the Max Planck Institute in <st1:City w:st="on">Rostock</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, the Institute for
Advanced Study in <st1:place w:st="on">Princeton</st1:place>, and the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her third book, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Lost In Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life
After Socialism</span></i> is forthcoming with Duke University Press in
the fall of 2011.<o:p></o:p></p>
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