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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
1985 University of California at Los
Angeles, Cultural Anthropology
C.A.S.
1977 Harvard University, Graduate School of
Education. Human Development.
Focus: Family and
social change in cross-cultural perspective
M.A.
1975 Northeastern University. Cultural
Anthropology
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
2004-
Associate Professor, Boston
University, Department of Anthropology
2001-
Director of Women's Studies,
Boston University
1993-2004
Assistant Professor. Boston University,
Department of Anthropology
1997-1998 Director of Women’s Studies,
Boston University
1990-91
Assistant Professor. New York
University, Department of Anthropology
1988
Lecturer. University of
Massachusetts at Boston (Fall Semester)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
3-7/89
United Nation High Commission for Refugees,
Consultant, prepared an
ethnographic report on Iranian Baluch
refugees in Pakistan
GRANTS,
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2002-03 Fulbright Postdoctoral Grant for
Uzbekistan (not used)
2001-02 Fulbright Postdoctoral Grant for
Pakistan (Postponed due to 9/11)
1999-00 Fulbright Postdoctoral Grant for
Pakistan (not used)
1997-98 American Institute of Pakistan
Studies, postdoctoral grant for research in
Pakistan, Two months
1996 Iranian Senior Fellowship,
Oxford University, St. Antony's College, Hilary Term,
1994
Humanities Foundation Grant, Boston
University (A joint project with Dr. Robert Hefner)
1993 Eleanor B. Leacock Award, Second
Prize, Honorable Mention for article on
"Obedience Versus, Autonomy:
Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan"
1991-92 American Institute of Pakistan
Studies, Postdoctoral grant,
1990 The Fundamentalism Project, One
month grant for fieldwork in Pakistan
1989-90
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Ismaili
Studies (half a semester),
1986-87
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center for
Teaching and Research on Women,
Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island
1989 Berkeley Urdu Language Program
in Pakistan, January - June
1985-86
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
1987-88 Social Science Research Council,
Postdoctoral grant
1982 Social Science Research Council
(write up grant),
1981-82 Social Science Research Council,
Dissertation grant
1978-79 University of California at Los
Angeles, Department of Anthropology, Summer grant
1975-76 Harvard University, scholarship
for graduate work
FIELD WORK
6-8/2004
“Women and Political Leadership in Iran,” Interviewed a few
former “reformer” MPs, gave a talk at the Women’s
Organization of “Musharekat” party.
5-7/2001
Interviewed and videotaped six women presidential candidates
and solicited commentaries
from two
well-known women editors and journalist for a video
documentary on Presidential
election,
Tehran, Iran.
7-8/00
Collected data on temporary marriage in Tehran for an
updated version of my book,
Law
of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi’i Iran.
6/ 1998
Interviewed educated, urban professional middle class
Pakistani women, Karachi, 1-14.
12/97-1/98
Follow up research in Pakistan, collecting life history of
professional Pakistani women.
1996
Research on judiciary changes and personal law, with a focus
on divorce, Tehran, Iran, April - May
1994
Research on women and feminist non-governmental
organizations, Tehran, Iran, Summer
1991-93
Research on the tension
between law, religion and personal desires among urban
professional Pakistani women.
1990
Research on the impact of
"fundamentalism" on family in Pakistan, interviewing
members of the
Jamaat Islami
Party, and other prominent political leaders. March 6 -
April 4
1989
Ethnographic research on the Iranian Baluch refugees in
Karachi, Pakistan. March, May- July
1989-90
Archival research on the
concept of devotion to the Imam among the Shi'is in the
Indo- Pakistan
subcontinent, September - February
1987-88
Archival Research in major
libraries in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, and Aligarh,
Lucknow, and
Patna in
India. Focused on Sunni Muslim jurists' interpretations of
property, marriage contracts,
custody of
children, and reciprocal marital obligations
1981-82 Doctoral research on the contract of temporary marriage.
Visited cities of Qom, Mashhad,
Kashan and
Teheran, and interviewed religious leaders of various
ranks, men and women who had contracted temporary marriage
1978
Preliminary research in Qom on the institution of temporary
marriage, Summer
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Books
2002
No
Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women,
Syracuse; Syracuse University
Press
2004
No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women,
Karachi, Oxford University Press, Karachi (slightly revised
edition)
1989/1993
Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran.
Syracuse:
Syracuse
University Press, USA; Co-published with I.B. Tauris in
England (Second printing 1993)
1994
Al-Mut'a: Zavaj-ul Movaqqat 'Indal Shi'a,
(Translation of Law of Desire into Arabic), All
Prints Distributor & Publishers, Beirut, Lebanon, (7th
printing 1996).
1993
Mohabbat Ka Qanun, (Translation of
Law of Desire into Urdu), Qomi Digest, March 1993,
Lahore, Pakistan
1997
Modernity & Women in Iran (in
Persian), Guest editor for Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal
of Iranian Studies, Vol. 15, No.3, Summer
Books in Progress
2004
Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
USA, An Updated Edition with
a New Introduction
Monographs (unpublished)
2003
Contested Terrains: Gender Justice and Citizenship in South
Asia, Paper commissioned by International Development
Resource Center (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada.
1990
Ritual of Mourning: Devotion to the Imam Among the Shi'is in
the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent,
London: Institute of Ismaili
Studies
1989
The Baluch Report. Geneva, United Nation High
Commissioner for Refugees, Technical Support System
Articles:
2003
“’Muslim Women’ in the Mirror of the Other.” (in Persian).
In Zanan. Vol.12, No.100
2002
“Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” (Translated in
Persian) in Iran Nameh: A Persian
Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol.
XIX, No.3, pp. 337-47, Summer
2001
"Subliminal Sex
in Iranian Cinema." Anthropology News, March
1996
"Fundamentalism & Women's Rights in Iran & Pakistan" (in
Persian), Iran Nameh, Vol.XIV, No.1,
Winter
1995
"Of Feminism & Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan,"
Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, &
Sciences,
Vol.4, No.3, Spring, pp. 129-149
1993
"Land of Paradoxes," The Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan,
July 22-28, pp.14-15 (used pseudonym)
1992
"Temporary Marriage and the State in Iran: An Islamic
Discourse on Female Sexuality," Social
Research: An International
Quarterly of the Social Sciences,
Vol.59, No.1, Spring, pp.201-23
1988
“Poetic Performance in Aligarh, India,” in Par, 38:
10-12, 46-47
1987 "Ma'sumih"
(short story in Persian), Nimeye Digar, London, No.5,
Winter pp.70-75
1986
"Ambivalence Toward Women In Islamic Law and Ideology,"
The Middle East Annual,
Vol.5, pp.45-67
1986
"Power of Ambiguity: Cultural Improvisations on the Theme of
Temporary Marriage," Iranian Studies,
Vol.19, No.2, pp.123-154
Book
chapters
2004
“Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” Sexuality in the
Middle East and North Africa.
Ed. Pinar
Ilkkaracan, Brill (forthcoming).
2000
“Temporary Marriage & the
State in Iran: An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality,”
Reprinted
in Women
and Sexuality in Muslim Societies. Ed. By Pinar
Ilkkaracan, Istanbul,
Turkey: A
Publication of Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways,
343-62.
1999
“Women’s Body, Nation’s Honor: Rape in Pakistan,”
Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female
“Public Space in Islamicate Societies.
Ed. By S. Afsaruddin, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 55-69
(slightly revised version of Politics of Dishonor, below)
1996 "Mut'a:
Regulating Sexuality and Gender Relations in
Postrevolutionary Iran," Islamic
Legal Interpretation: Muftis
and Their Fatwas, A Casebook, eds.
M. Khalid Masud, David
Powers, and Brinkley Messick.,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp.251-61
1995
"Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan," Faith
& Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the
Muslim World,
ed. M. Afkhami, London: I.B. Tauris, pp.161-174
1994
"An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality: Temporary
Marriage in Postrevolutionary
Iran," In the Eye
of the Storm: Women in Postrevolutionary Iran, eds. M.
Afkhami and
E. Friedl, Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press (slightly revised version of
Temporary Marriage
and State in Iran, above),
pp.98-114
1993
"Women & Temporary Marriage" (Translated in Urdu), in
Women: Past & Present, ed. Kishwar Naheed,
Sang-i Mill Publications:
Lahore, Pakistan, pp.321-337
1991 “A
Brief History of Anthropology of Women in Iran,” in The
Second Proceedings for Iranian Women
Studies Foundation, 2:
46-68, Summer
1993
"Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran
and Pakistan,"
Fundamentalism and
Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education.
eds.
M.E. Marty and R.S. Appleby,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.181-213
1990
"Divorce in Contemporary Iran: A Male Prerogative in
Self-Will," Islamic Family Law, eds. C. Mallat
and J.
Connors. London: Graham and Trotman, pp.55-67
1983
"The Institution of Mut'a Marriage in Iran: A Formal and
Historical Perspective," Women
and Revolution in Iran,
ed. G. Nashat, Westview Press,
pp.231-51
1980
"Women, Law and Social Change in Iran," Women in
Contemporary Muslim Societies,
ed. J.I. Smith, Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, pp.209-234
Encyclopedia & Dictionary Entries:
2004
“Temporary Marriage,” Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. Jane
D. McAuliffe. Brill (forthcoming)
1997
"Divorce," Dictionary of Anthropology, ed. Thomas J.
Barfield, Blackwell, 1997, pp.126-27
1995 "Mut'ah,"
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World,
ed. John L. Esposito, New York:
Oxford
University Press, Vol.3, pp.21-213
1995
"Social Reform in the Middle East," The Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John
L. Esposito, New
York: Oxford University Press, Vol.4, pp. 335-339
Book & Film Reviews
2005
The Ladies Room by Mahnaz Afzali (Color 2003, 55 minutes).
Iranian Journey by Maysoon Pachachi (Color, 2003, 54
minutes).
Women
Like Us by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri (Color, 2003, 60 minutes).
Review for Journal for Middle Eastern
Studies [CHECK]
2003 Inside Iran: Women’s
Lives (Jane Howard), Women’s
Review of Books, April, pp10-11
2001
Boundaries of Faith: Geographical Perspectives on Religious
Fundamentalism,
(Roger W.
Stump), Religious Studies Review. V.27, No.2, April,
pp.147-48
1996
The Vanguards of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i
Islami of Pakistan, (Seyyed Vali Reza
Nasr), Muslim World,
V.LXXXVI, No.3-4, pp.378-383
1996
Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the
United States and Iran,
(Martin Riesebrodt),
International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, pp.116-18
1995
Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law, (Ziba
Mir-Hosseini), International Journal of
Middle
Eastern Studies, V.27 August 1995:350-52, pp.350-52.
1998
Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Response to Shahla Haeri’s Review of
Marriage on Trial, A Study of
Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco. International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
V.30, No.3,
August, pp.469-71
1998
Haeri’s Reply to Mir-Hosseini. International Journal of
Middle Eastern Studies,
V.30, No.3,
August, pp.471-72
1993
A Persian Requiem, (Simin Danishvar), Digest of Middle
East Studies, Vol.2, No.2, Spring, pp.4-6
1991
Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village, (Erika
Friedl), Iranian Studies, Vol.24, No.1-4, pp.94-95
MEDIA
PRODUCTION
Video
2002 Mrs.
President: Women & Political Leadership in Iran.
Directed & produced a 46 Minute Video documentary on women
presidential candidates in Iran, summer 2001. Distributed by
the Films for Humanities & Sciences (www.films.com)
in the United States and Canada
Video Screening of Mrs. President
2004
(Personal presentation and discussion)
Swarthmore College, PA, February 17
2003
University of
Southern New Hampshire, June 23
University of
California at Davis, May 5
Islamic Legal
Studies, Harvard University, April 9
Syracuse
University, Maxwell School, February 17
University of
Michigan, Dearborn, February 10
2002
Harvard University, Divinity School, December 5
Film Fest,
Middle Easters Studies Association, Washington DC, November
23-26
Tufts
University, Medford, November 20
Food for
Thought, Boston University, November 19
Department of
Anthropology, Boston University, November 14
Department of
Anthropology, Brown University, November 7
Third Women’s
Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, July 28
Film Fest,
Society for Iranian Studies, Washington DC, May 25
Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD, March 30
Women’s
Studies Program, Boston University, March 13
2003
Taboo 2: Provided commentary on the episode on Justice
2002
Taboo, a 13 episode program produced by National
Geographic, provided commentary for the
episodes on
marriage and sexuality
2001
“A History of Future,” CNN, regarding globalization,
religion and gender relations in Muslim
societies, New
York, October 7.
1999
“Arabic Hour,” Cable Television, Interviewed by
Professor Elaine Hagopian regarding issues on women,
politics, Law and religion in Iran and Pakistan, Boston, MA,
May 15
1995 "Covered: The Hijab in Cairo,”
Commentator on the issue of veiling among women in the
Middle East, Dir. T. Kamal-Eldin, Minneapolis, MN
TV & Radio
2003
Interviewed by Voice of America, Urdu Program, on my book on
Pakistan, December 17.
2003
Interviewed by WBUI’s host of Tahrir, Barbara Nimri Aziz
about Nobel Peace awardee Sherine Ebadi,
October 14
2003
Voice of America, on Immigrants to the United States,
Washington, DC, January 23
2003
Vice of Asia, on my book on Pakistan, Washington, DC,
January 23
1998-
Voice of America, Iran and Middle East, February 5, on
Iranian and Pakistani women
1997
WBUR, Connection, With Chirstopher Leiden, May 27, on
Iranian Election
1996-
BBC World Service, Trevor Bonds, on recent pronouncements on
temporary marriage in Iran, 3/19
1996-
Voice of America, S. Asia, Kent Klein, on Lahore High
Court's decision to uphold a woman's right to
arrange her own marriage, March 19
1993 -
Regular contributor to Radio France International
(Persian Section)
1996
Austrian Broadcasting Service, On Women in the Muslim World,
Vienna, Austria, March 27
1995
New England Cable News, On Women's Conference in Beijing,
September 12
1995
Islam: Faith & Power,
Interviewed by
Roger Hardy, BBC World Service, April 1995
1992
Glory & Power: Fundamentalism Project, National Public
Radio(Participant in the
final segment of the multi-media
Fundamentalism Project, University of Chicago), June 21
1991
Australia: Late Night Live, (Telephone interview)
1990
CBS, Fundamentalism, (One of the three participants
on the issue of Fundamentalism
among the three Abrahamic religions).
1989
BBC, Interviewed on the Women's Hour; and BBC's Persian
broadcasting, March
Interviews & Newspapers
2004
DAWN, Daily Newspaper, Karachi, Pakistan. “Shahla Haeri:
Changing Perceptions,” February 22.
2003
Interviewed by
Laila Kazmi for
http://www.jazbah.org/intshahla.php
2001
Zanan, Women's monthly magazine, on the state's revival of
temporary marriage
discourse
in Iran, July 27, Tehran.
2000
Zanan, Women’s monthly magazine, on marriage and divorce
laws and the status of
women in
Iran,
Tehran,
August 2
1998
The News, Daily Newspaper, on Women, State, and Society in
Iran, Pakistan, February 5
1996
Der Standard, Daily Newspaper, On my book & research in
Iran, Vienna, Austria, March 28, pp.1-2
1995
Boston Herald, Daily Newspaper, On Pakistan, Boston, March
9, 1995:10
1993
Atlanta Constitution, On Muslim women and veiling
1991
The Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan
EDITORIAL &
ADVISORY BOARDS
2002-
Associate Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia,
Africa, and the Middle East
2002-
Board Member, Association for the Study of Persianate
Societies
1999-
Board Member, The Latifeh Yarshater Memorial Book Award
1997-98
Nominating Committee, Middle Eastern Studies Association
1996-
Institute for Women's Studies (International Faculty),
Lahore, Pakistan
1996-
Human Rights Education Workshop,
Sisterhood is Global (Advisory Council)
1993-96 Digest of Middle East Studies
(International Advisory Board)
1994-
Women's Study's Program (Advisory Board),
Boston University
1994
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Committee
in the Social Sciences (Selection
Committee), Middle Eastern
Studies Association
1993-2001
Critique: Journal of Critical Studies of Iran
and the Middle East (Advisory Board)
1993-94
Committee for the Study of Women & Gender in
the Middle East & Islamic Societies,
Harvard University (Steering
Committee)
1991-
Women's Center at Foundation for Iranian
Studies, Bethesda, MD (Advisor)
1990- New England Council for the
Middle East Studies
1990- Nimeye Digar, A Persian language
feminist quarterly, Editorial Board
1988-89
Society for Iranian Studies, Council Member
1986-
Faculty Associate. Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard University
1985-90
International Women’s Anthropology
Conference (IWAC), Inc. (Member-at-Large)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Association for Asian Studies
Association of Political and Legal
Anthropology
American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Association for Middle East
Women's Studies
Applied Socioeconomic Research (ASR), Pakistan
Foundation for Iranian Studies
Middle Eastern Studies Association
Society for Iranian Studies
LANGUAGE
SKILL
Fluent in
English and Persian; Conversant with Urdu; Reading knowledge
of Arabic
CONFERENCES
AND PRESENTATIONS
(Partial listing)
2004 “Women’s Perspectives from Pakistan and
Iran: Searching for Modernity in an Age of Militarization.”
Talk given at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
December 9
2004 “Lives of Professional Pakistani Women,”
talk given at the South Asian Society, Yale University, New
Haven, October 28
2004 “Legacy of Injustice: Gender Justice,
Governance, and Citizenship.” Paper presented at One Day
Conference: Priority Goals for Women in the 21st
Century. Women and Public Policy Program. At John F. School
of Government, Harvard University. May 4.
2004 “Professional Pakistani Women,”
Pakistan Day of Learning, Rockefeller Foundation, New York
City, February 24.
2004 “Gender, Islam, & Power,” talk given at
Swarthmore College, February 17.
2003 “Contested Terrains: Gender Justice and
Citizenship in South Asia,” Paper presented at the
conference on Gender Justice, Citizenship, and
Entitlement, International Development Research Center,
Ottawa, Canada, November 13-14.
2003
President: Women & Political Leadership in Iran,” Talk and
Screening of Video Documentary
Asia Society, New York City, November 6
2003
“Family and Temporary Marriage in Iran,” Talk given at
University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
October 26.
2003
Women and Political Leadership in Iran,” Paper presented at
4th Annual Conference on Central
Eurasian
Studies Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, October 5
2003
Moderator and Chair for the panel on Central Asian Women:
History and Current Issues, 4th Annual Conference
on Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard
University, Cambridge, October 4
2003
“No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani
Women,” Talk and discussion at
University of California at Davis,
Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, May 5
2003
“Women & Political Leadership in Iran,” Paper presented at
the 2003 Warburg Conference on
“Modern Women
and Ancient Faiths: The Complex Quest for Equality in
Christianity,
Islam and
Judaism,” Simons College, May 2
2003
“Illusion of Association: Tension between Law and Culture in
Iran and Pakistan,”
Paper to be presented at the conference on
Laws, Institutions and Gender Equality at
World Bank, Washington DC, March 18-19
2003
“Workshop on Middle East Youth Culture,” Participant in
three panels
Watson
Institute, Brown University, February 27-28 – March 1
2003
“No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani
Women,” Presentation and Book
signing at Barnes and Noble, Kenmore Square,
Beacon St., February 20
2003
“No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani
Women,” conducted a seminar on
my book with graduate students of Professor
Susan Wadley, February 17
2003
“Against the Grain: Making Professional Pakistani Women
Visible,” Paper presented at
University of Michigan, Dearborn, February
10
2003
“Man, Woman, Serpent,”
2003
“Status of Women in Islam,” talk given at Helen Day Art
Center, January 31
2003 “No
Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women,”
Presentation, discussion,
and book signing, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington DC, January 23
2002
“Mrs. President,” Discussion on my video documentary and
Book, Brown University,
Providence, RI, November 7
2002
“Mrs. President,” Discussion of women and politics in Iran,
Food for Thought, Boston University,
November 19
2002
“American Imagining of Iranians in the United States,” talk
given at the Symposium on Iranian
Immigrants in the United States, Iranian
Association of Boston, November 16-17.
2002
“Muslim women and the problematic of veil and veiling,” talk
given at Commonwealth School,
Boston, MA,
May 9
2002
“Political Terror: Women’s Body, Nation’s Honor,” Paper
presented at the Symposium on
“Terrorism and Mental Health: Clinician and Patient
Responses from Patriotism to World
Community, The Twenty-Fifth Annual Erich Lindemann
Memorial Lecture, The Massachusetts
School of Professional Psychology, April 26.
2002
Iran: Another Look. Chair of the panel on “Prospects
for Political Change in Iran.” The Center for
International
Relations at Boston University, April 23
2002
“Who Speaks for Islam,” Discussant, Institute for Philosophy
and Religion, Boston University,
April 10.
4
“Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex
Under the Veil.” Paper presented at Johns Hopkins
University,
March 30
2002 In
the Mirror of the Other: Making Professional Pakistani Women
Visible,” Paper
presented at the Conference on
Afghanistan and
Beyond: Women's Activism in Times
of War.”
Five College Women’s Studies
Research Center, the Weissman Center for
Leadership at
Mount Holyoke College, Amherst, MA. March 7-8
2002 In
the Mirror of the Other: Making Professional Muslim Women
Visible." Paper presented at
Department of
Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Cambridge
Hospital/Harvard
Medical
School. January 29
2001 “Women & Political Leadership in Iran,”
Paper presented at Purdue University, Sears Series. November
12.
2001
Organized & moderated a forum, “Women’s Voices for Peace,”
Boston University. October 4.
2001
"The 'Unveiling' of Professional Pakistani Women," Paper
presented at Tufts University,
Massachusetts, April 25
2001
Iran's Presidential Election: What Will It Mean for U.S.
Policy. Moderator for Panel on
"Iranian Interest Groups: How Important, how
Influential." National Defense University.
Washington, D.C., April 20
2001
"The 'Unveiling' of Professional Pakistani Women," Paper
presented at Amherst College. April 18
2000
“Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” Paper presented
at the Conference on “
Women
in Iranian Cinema.” University of Virginia at
Charlottesville, March 30 – April 2.
2001
"Subliminal Sex in Iranian Cinema," talk given at Food for
Thought, Boston University, March 13
2001
"The 'Unveiling' of Professional Pakistani Women," Paper
presented at Wilson Center, Washington .
D.C. January 26
2000
“Custom or Religion: The ‘Crime’ of Being a Widow.” Paper
presented at the Pakistan Millennium
Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA, September 30.
2000
“Challenges to Iranian Secular Intellectuals: Timidity to
Engage Religious Scholars on Matters of
Marriage and
Sexuality.” Talk given at the Office of Guft-o-gu Magazine
(Dialogue On Culture
and society,
Tehran, Iran. August 8.
2000
“Fieldwork in Uncommon Place: Temporary Marriage in Iran,”
Talk given at the Society for Iranian
Studies
Biannual meeting, Washington DC, May 26
1999
“Story of a ‘Bad” Woman:
Defiance and Dishonor in Pakistan,” Talk given at Notre Dame
University,
South Bend,
IN, April 30
1999
“Story of a ‘Bad’
Woman: Defiance and Dishonor in Pakistan,” Paper presented
at the Conference on
Writing Lives, Charlottesville,
VA, April 22-24
1999
“Violence Against Women in
Pakistan,” Talk given at LaTertulia, Humanities Foundation,
Boston
University,
February 24
1999
“Who is a ‘Muslim Woman?’ In
the Mirror of the Other,” Talk given at Food for Thought,
Boston
University,
February 23
1998
“Masquerading Rites of
Passage: Fictive Marriage in Iran,” Paper presented at the
American
Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6.
1998
“Women, Islam and Ecology,”
Chair and Discussant, Conference on Islam and Ecology,
Harvard
University,
May 8-11
1998
“Women as Agent of Social
Change,” Paper presented at the Conference on Economic &
Social
Development in
Pakistan, MIT, March 7
1997
Framing Sexuality in Muslim Societies: Marriage as Contract,
Paper presented at the “Workshop: The
Marriage Contract in Islam,” Islamic Legal
Studies Program, Harvard Law School, May 30-31
1997
Identity, Sexuality and Subjectivity, Paper presented at the
Institute of Women's Studies, Lahore,
Pakistan, March 28-31
1997
The Awakening of Women in Iran
and Pakistan (in Persian)Talk given at the Iranian Cultural
Society of
South Florida, March 8
1997
Religion & Ecology: Forging an Ethic Across Traditions,
Moderator for Panel on Islam, Boston Research
Center for the 21st Century, Cambridge, MA,
February 21-22
1996
Divine Asymmetry: Divorce in The Islamic Republic of Iran,
Paper read at the American
Anthropological Associations, San
Francisco, CA November 21-24
1996
Chair & Discussant for special Panel on “Aspects of Iranian
Women’s Lives,” Annual Conference of
Middle Eastern Studies, Providence, RI,
November 22
1996
Sexuality, Identity Construction and Religion, Working
Group, The Park Ridge Center for the Study of
Health, Faith, and Ethics, Chicago, November
8
1996
Women's Leadership in Developing Countries, Paper presented
at Massachusetts Conference on Women:
Bringing Beijing Home, Boston, MA, September
28
1996 On
Men, Women, and Communication: Talk given at Imam Sadigh
University, Tehran Iran, May 15
1996
Modernity and Islam: The Relationship between the State and
Women in Iran, Paper presented at Bruno
Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue,
Vienna, Austria, March 28
1996
Framing Sexuality in the Context of Modern Islamic Society:
Temporary Marriage in Iran, Paper
Presented at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. March 7
1996
Modernity & Sexuality: Temporary Marriage in Contemporary
Iran, Paper presented at the Middle
East Cent, St. Antony's College (Jointly
sponsored by the Center for Cross-Cultural Research on
Women,
Oxford University, UK. February 27
1996
“Islamic Feminism: The Case of Iran,” Discussant, Middle
East Conference, London University
(Birkbeck
College), UK, February 10
1995
Negotiating Desire: Temporary Marriage in Contemporary
Iran, Paper presented at Harvard University,
Social
Anthropology Seminar Series, Cambridge, MA, December 18
1995
Temporary Marriage (Mut’a) in Contemporary Iran, Paper
presented at Boston University, Food for
Thought Series, Boston, MA, November 21
1995
Gender and the Sacred in Islam, Paper presented at the
Conference on Engendering American Catholic
Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend,
IN, September 29 - October 1
1995
Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan, Paper
presented at a Symposium on Shifting Boundaries
of
Gender Categories in South Asia and the Middle East,
Charlottesville, VA, March 31 - April 1
1995
Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan, Paper
presented at Harvard University, Study of Gender
in the Middle East,
Cambridge, MA, April 21
1995
Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan, Paper
presented at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN,
February 23
1994
Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan, Paper
presented at Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting of
Middle Eastern Association Studies,
Phoenix, AZ, November 19-22
1994
Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Politics in Pakistan, Paper
presented at Religion, Culture, and Women's
Human Rights in the Muslim World,
Washington, DC, September 9-10
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