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The 2015 founding of the Women’s Mosque of America (WMA) in Los Angeles gave Muslim women in the U.S. something they hadn’t had access to before: the minbar, the platform from which a sermon is given. With her forthcoming book, scholar Tazeen Ali explores the dynamism of Islam and the women who interpret it, who approach the Qur’an as a tool to resist social hierarchies, build community and empower themselves.
Share Michael R. Allen, a lecturer in the American Culture Studies program and senior lecturer in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, is also an academic researcher, historian, design critic, public artist, critical spatial tour guide and heritage conservationist in private practice. He reviews the latest book by Jenny Price, a public writer, artist and environmental historian and current research fellow at the Sam Fox School. After finishing Jenny Price’s Stop Saving the Planet: An Environmentalist Manifesto, I felt the ur...
By Nancy Y. Reynolds Share Nancy Y. Reynolds is associate professor of history in the Department of History, and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Participants and pundits hailed it as the social media revolution. When Egypt’s January 25 uprising followed Tunisia’s start to the Arab Spring in 2011, it seemed to erupt from a new technology of political organizing. The Facebook page “We are all Khaled Said” chronicled a fatal police beating in Alexandria in June 2010,...
Morning session 9:00–9:45 am - Timothy Moore (Washington University in St. Louis): “Women and their voices in Plautus’ Rudens” 9:45–10:30 am - Julia Beine (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “‘Something of great moment is about to happen’: Plautus’ Rudens in translation and performance by the Ladies’ Literary Society of Washington University” 11:00–11:45 am - Judith Hallett (University of Maryland): “ Ultra veritatem muliebris vis: women classicists in the dawning of post-bellum America” 11:45 am–12:30 pm - Amanda Clark (Missouri History Museum): “Women’...