TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN UNAVAILABLE INTERSECTIONS

In spring 1997 I was asked by an organizer for a conference titled “The Politics of Interdisciplinary Location” to speak on one of its panels. An earlier talk about the challenges of teaching a broad survey course, “Women, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa,” at a college Barnard in...

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Published inWomen's Studies on the Edge p. 69
Main Author Afsaneh Najmabadi
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Duke University Press 09.06.2008
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Summary:In spring 1997 I was asked by an organizer for a conference titled “The Politics of Interdisciplinary Location” to speak on one of its panels. An earlier talk about the challenges of teaching a broad survey course, “Women, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa,” at a college Barnard in a city like New York had apparently generated the interest produced this invitation (see “Secular”). I was asked to send a talk title and a brief paragraph describing my presentation. Ambivalent about participating in the conference and unclear about agenda, I missed the deadline. In July, I received
ISBN:9780822342526
0822342529
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv11sn3bm.6