IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2025–2026
Feminism, Democracy, and Academic Freedom
Nadje Al-Ali
Brown University
International Studies, Anthropology, and Middle East Studies
Based on a recently published co-edited volume entitled Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024), this talk will highlight anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries. Providing empirical examples and case studies from both Europe and the Middle East, one aim is to decolonize knowledge production by de-centering Europe and simultaneously de-exceptionalizing the Middle East. The various case studies will illustrate the multifarious ways in which anti-genderism and homophobia are inextricably linked to racism, as well as to anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments, attitudes, and policies.
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Free and open to all.
Location: Humanities Seminar Room 6051, Rutgers Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus.