Recent Events
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Civil War & Emancipation in the Era of Obama, Feb. 12, 2013.
SoJust Leadership Forum, Feb. 11, 2013.
Damien Echols: Life After Death Row, Feb. 5, 2013.
Intersectionality Symposium, Nov. 8-9, 2012.
Israel at the Crossroads: Conversation with Natasha Mozgovaya, Oct. 24, 2012.
Left On Pearl, Oct. 18, 2012.
Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) 2012 Conference, Boston,
June 14-17, 2012.
"Not My Life," March 26, 2012.
"The Red Market: Scott Carney," March 7, 2012.
"Undoing FGM," March 7, 2012.
Events
Women Peacemakers
on the Ethnic Borders
in Bosnia Herzegovina
Public lecture with Zilka Spahic Siljak
Harvard Divinity School Visiting Lecturer
When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Women's Studies Research Center
Brandeis University, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA
Zilka Spahic Siljak will speak about specific local Bosnian concepts of compassion (merhamet) and neighborliness (komsiluk) employed for peacebuilding on the borders between Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian villages in Bosnia Herzegovina.
Siljak is a Harvard Divinity School Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islamic Studies and the Deputy Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary PostgraduateStudies at the University of Sarajevo.
Sponsored by the Gender & International Development Initiatives (GaIDI) at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.
Cosponsors:
- Boston University’s Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program (WGS)
- Brandeis University’s
- Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism
- The Heller School for Social Policy and Management’s
- Gender Working Group (GWG)
- Coexistence and Conflict Program
All events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC unless otherwise stated.
*For full description and calendar listings of SoJust events, please visit our pages dedicated to the Social Justice Leadership Series.