Lila Abu-Lughod, CSSD Executive Committee member and former co-director of the Reframing Gender Violence and Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence projects, will be speaking at the NYU Liberal Studies Global Lecture Series on how agendas to combat violence against women and gender-based violence have been taken up as tools of state sovereignty and global security.

Based on a collaborative research project with feminist scholars working in the Middle East and South Asia, Dr. Abu-Lughod outlines some of the political and institutional circuits that gender violence traverses, consolidates, and animates, paying special attention to “the Muslim question” so central to these operations. She focuses in particular on the deployment of the master category in the work of securofeminists, governance feminists seeking a role in the dangerous business of what goes under the trademark of Countering Violent Extremism.

This event will take place:

5:30 PM | Tuesday, December 3, 2019
NYU Hemmerdinger Hall (Silver Center)
31 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, please visit the event page here.